Hi everyone,
I know I shouldn’t, but I can’t help treating the fellowship match like a final exam. You’ve already passed more important tests: you’ve mastered medicine and take great care of your patients. But Match Day still gives me palpitations.
Thankfully, we passed the test again. And it’s no surprise: fellowship directors love our residents. You’re well-trained, accomplished, and nicer than most.
This year, Heme-Onc was the most popular destination: 12 of you will become hematologist-oncologists (one combined with palliative care). Here are the rest: A&I (1), cardiology (5), endocrinology (3), geriatrics (4), GI (7), ID (3, including one combined with critical care), nephrology (2), PCCM (4), and rheumatology (4). Nearly half of you are staying at Yale (consults from friends!).
Mega-thanks to the faculty who trained, mentored, and inspired you as clinic preceptors, hospital attendings, subspecialty clinic attendings, PIs, MACs, Firm Chiefs, Unit Directors, Clinic Directors, Distinction Leaders, and Core Faculty. Additional thanks to school, hospital, GME, and department leadership. More thanks to our nurses, APPs, pharmacists, therapists, social workers, and aides. And most especially, thanks to our residency coordinators, staff, and APDs. No one succeeds alone.
Congratulations to everyone who matched into fellowship and to those of you who will become hospitalists or stay as Chiefs. We’re proud of your accomplishments, and we’re so excited to witness your future contributions to our profession, our patients, and our world.
Enjoy your Sunday, everyone. I’ll be heading to East Rock before spending the afternoon reading essays for Tuesday’s interview day.
Mark
What I’m reading:
• Stress can dull our capacity for joy: mouse brain patterns hint at why by Max Kozlov
• The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms by Zeynep Tufekci
• What Doctors Like Myself Know About Americans’ Health Care Anger by Helen Ouyang
• The ‘insanely versatile’ topping that sets this New Haven pizza apart by Adam H. Callaghan.
• This is Happiness by Niall Williams
• Unless it Moves the Human Heart by Roger Rosenblatt
• Doppelganger by Naomi Klein