Episode 5 - Change of Residency: Collaborative vs. Competitive Medicine

In this episode, we hear from Elisha about what drove him to switch residencies midway through his first residency.  Elisha had an eye-opening experience when a rotation of residents from another program visited and they had a clear understanding of a patient issue with additional knowledge that Elisha didn’t have at the time— even after giving his best efforts to self-direct and self-educate consistently for the past year of his program. What he realized was that as long as he was self-directing and self-educating, he would be at a disadvantage in terms of what he could learn still while in this phase of his education. Wanting to be the best doctor he could be, and offer a level of care that he felt good about, Elisha decided to seek out another resident program for the sake of learning more from other physicians who knew more.  However, there was a Catch 22: His first residency lacked professional oversight, knowledge/experience, and opportunity for Elisha to learn more, but had more of a collaborative, compassionate culture in general. His second residency had the higher-learning resources and opportunities Elisha was seeking, but it came with the cost of going back to a more aggressive, competitive, individualized approach to medicine and general culture within the medical staff that had left such a bad impression on Elisha in previous clinical settings.  This paradox, by this point in Elisha’s journey, was unsurprising but disappointing and ultimately led him to a new care setting as the next point in his medical journey: Rural Healthcare. More about that coming next week… **** Dear Healthcare, It’s You — A new podcast investigating the broken U.S. Healthcare system. Why is it failing? How are you getting screwed over? Who is profiting? How can it change? Subscribe now to get a peak behind the curtain of what really goes into becoming a doctor in America and how that influences the healthcare the American public actually receives. **** Credits: Dr. Elisha Yaghmai, M.D. - Host, Executive Producer  Jo O'Hanlon - Host, Set Design, Producer Monica Salmeron - Director, Producer  Ben Laffen - Videographer  Austin Engler - Video Editor Harmony Marketing - Marketing & Production **** Available on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. New episodes weekly - Subscribe to stay up to date.