Residents' Voices
For Residents
Career Choices: Forensic psychiatry
In this Career Choices, Saeed Ahmed, MD, Addiction Psychiatry Fellow at Boston University Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine,...
For Residents
A kick to kick off residency
If my motivation to become a doctor was ever the supposed glamour and prestige conferred once “MD” is added to your name, that delusion was...
For Residents
Career Choices: Academic psychiatry
In this Career Choices, Saeed Ahmed, MD, Chief Resident at Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, New York, talked with Donald W. Black,...
For Residents
The importance of engaging with local mental health organizations
“Hi Dr. Burke, thanks for coming in today. My daughter struggles with depression and I feel like every time I try to reach out, I hit a dead end...
For Residents
Paternalism vs autonomy: Why watching our words is important
Two patients were admitted to our unit at the same time: Mr. P, age 27, an architect with unspecified personality disorder, and Mr. D, age 62, a...
For Residents
Treating military members, veterans, and their families
I had the unique opportunity to attend a civilian medical school followed by residency and fellowship training along civilian providers, and I...
For Residents
Career Choices: Addiction psychiatry
In this Career Choices, Dr. Ahmed talked with Dr. Stanciu, an addiction psychiatrist who provides support to clinicians managing patients with...
For Residents
The blinding lies of depression
Numb and empty, I continued to drive home in a daze. My mind focused only on the light ahead changing from yellow to red.
For Residents
The effect of collateral information on involuntary psychiatric commitment
Collateral information is a key component obtained during the psychiatric admission process whereby clinicians gather information provided about...
For Residents
A transgender adolescent with chronic pain, depression, and PTSD
X, a 17-year-old Mexican-American transgender male, experienced a traumatic brain injury 4 years ago and subsequently developed PTSD.
For Residents
Resilience: Our only remedy?
Resilience is like patience; we all wish we had more of it, but we hope to avoid getting it the hard way.