Hello, residents.

My name is Maddie Watts.

Thank you for downloading this month's episode of the EM Clerkship Podcast.

Our episode today is sponsored by Pearson Ravits Insurance.

Pearson Ravits is my personal, own occupation, disability insurance broker,

and we will talk more about Pearson Ravits later in the episode.

Sean, welcome back. How's it going?

Doing good.

Hey, I'm super excited to be back, just got off of orthopedics.

Residency is going really well. I'm excited for this case.

Well, we are recording at the end of December, which means you have officially survived the first six months of residency.

How does that feel? And what do you think has been the hardest thing so far?

Yeah, it's crazy that we're already at six months. I feel like it's been years. And at the same time, it's gone by so so quickly i still feel like a brand new intern some

days but yeah the i think probably the most difficult thing about residency is just like seeing my

seniors even the second years and like trying to imagine myself in their role six months from now

and it's just so hard like I feel like I'm

definitely better than when I started but I just have so so far to go and it's

really awesome that it seems like everybody kind of gets there eventually but I'm

really really just intimidated all the time when I see them like running

resuscitations and

stuff like that because I realize how like how much I need to to progress.

Yeah, no, I definitely remember that feeling. It's very normal. You are like, how on earth

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