E64 Ahmer Karimuddin On The "Struggling" Trainee, CaRMS, & Resident Selection

What do you do if you are a "struggling" trainee or trying to help a struggling trainee? We were lucky enough to have Dr. Ahmer Karimuddin join us on this episode to try to answer those questions. He might even change your mind on the way you think about the word "struggling". Dr. Karimuddin is a colorectal surgeon at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia. Along with Dr. Tracy Scott, Dr. Karimuddin is the co-program director for the UBC general surgery program.  We talk to him about how to approach the struggling trainee, as well as some of the innovative strategies the UBC program is utilizing to more objectively select residents.Links:1. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Academic American Surgery Faculty: An Elusive Dream. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33011449/2. "Hamlet was wrong." Revisionist History podcast by Malcolm Gladwell. http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/49-hamlet-was-wrong3. "Talking to Strangers" by Malcolm Gladwell. https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Strangers-Should-about-People/dp/03164785204. Surgical training in the midst of a pandemic: a distributed general surgery residency program’s response to COVID-19. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7458681/