Behind the knife, the Surgery Podcast, where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at surgery

from leaders in the Knife Medical Student and Intern Survival Guide.

In this podcast series, we focus on high yield topics relevant to medical students and surgical interns.

My name is Patrick Georgeoff. And I'm Vahag Nikolion. medical students and surgical interns.

My name is Patrick Georgeoff, and I'm Vahag Nikolian.

And we are your hosts.

All right, so today's topic is the first of two episodes

focusing on incoming interns. Internier is a challenging time, especially for the first few months.

These episodes are designed to give you some tips and tricks to excel as an intern and to

prepare you for some of the more difficult clinical scenarios you will be called

about.

But today we're going to be focusing on some non-clinical issues and who better to talk about

these issues and some of our exceptional colleagues at the University of Michigan.

We have with us today Dr Craig Brown, Dr. Glenn Wacham, Dr Valeria Valbuena, and Dr Ryan Eaton.

And Glenn and Craig are about to start their third year of residency and Valeria and Ryan, their second year.

And so welcome very much to our esteemed panel of colleagues.

Asteemed indeed.

So to drill down what our interns have learned about, we're going to ask them about what makes a successful

internier.

We will ask each of them to provide some general

purls of wisdom and find out about how they stayed organized and effective during

the sort of long intern year process.

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