Hey everyone, Steve Carroll here, and this is the EM Basic Podcast. Today's episode will not be about

EMCorp content. Instead, this episode is for the new incoming interns about to start their journey

into residency. It's an episode on the big picture advice that I would like to give new interns.

This won't be a long list of many little tips like show up early, stay late,

and always be learning. If you just started your intern year, then hopefully you've already figured

those things out. Instead of a list, we'll talk about four pieces of advice that go a little deeper

than the list of advice I've seen out there. Think of this as the big picture view on how to

approach residency,

the 30,000 foot view, if you will. This episode will be in the context of an EM intern about

to start their residency, but if you're thinking about another specialty or going into another

specialty, I think this advice will translate pretty well. So let's get started. Here's piece of

advice number one.

EM residency is a three or four year exercise in figuring out what your attendings want.

The earlier you accept this, the better and more productive you will be as a resident.

What I mean by this is that every attending will have a different way of doing things.

This can seem enormously frustrating

at first, because it may seem like you're getting so many different messages. Think of it this way.

You're a single learner working with many different attendings. Each attending has their own

knowledge base, risk tolerance, and ways of doing things. On the flip side, I am a single

attending working with many different

learners. Each learner has a different fund of knowledge, a different way of thinking about things,

and a different way in which they learn best. As an attending, I wouldn't expect every learner

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