Introduction I’ve equated working during the COVID-19 pandemic in NYC to a war. Bombs might not be dropping on us; but life as we know it has been transformed. And for most of our trainees, this is a first brush with living and working in a war-zone. Here I provide a...
After coaching my sons in a little league baseball game, my 12-yr-old asked me, “Hey Dad do you coach at work too?” I responded quickly with “Yes, yes I absolutely do!” and cracked a smile. Right then, after some apparent reflection (possibly triggered by our team’s...
Craig A. Piquette, MD “Oh, how I hate evaluations with my boss!” How many times have you said that? We often feel that those meetings are a waste of time and we never learn anything from them. Our fellows probably feel the same way but we have an opportunity to...
As a relatively new program director years ago I spent an inordinate amount of time coaching trainees with performance difficulties to success. Most of them did not have difficulties with medical knowledge, but in multiple behavioral competencies, namely...
In the 2018 interview season, our program received 466 applications for our 8 fellowship spots (6 in the match for PCCM, 2 outside of the match for our CCM track). This represents a 25% increase over applications from a year ago (25.2% increase, actually). This...
