Becoming the Patient
It has been a while! Today I’ll be sharing a personal experience. For the first time since becoming a surgeon, I had […]
Author: FMG Doc
A Foreign Medical Graduate who successfully completed a General Surgery Residency and a Surgical Fellowship. Currently living in the Pacific Northwest.
Get your clinic organized!
You’re finally finished with training and you have your job lined up. Now you get to organize your clinic. You have to […]
You have time for it! – Tips for time management
Being a doctor is a full-time enterprise. The good thing is that hopefully you found a job that does not have the […]
Performance Optimization – Exercise
As FMGs we are extremely focused in keeping the eye on the prize: securing a categorical residency position. We make sure we […]
How to succeed as a resident: Work Ethic
Having gone through medical school and the hoops needed to match into a residency in the US, it is easy to assume […]
How to succeed as a resident: seeing consults
Welcome to the FMG Doc Blog. Today we will cover a topic that is relevant for junior residents but may offer some […]
How to succeed as a resident: M&M conference
Welcome to our second blog. Today I want to tackle a subject that comes up during the later years of residency, although […]
Introduction
Introduction Welcome to my new blog. The purpose of this blog is to help guide other Foreign Medical Graduates (FMGs) navigate the […]
Welcome to the FMG Doc Blog!
This site will help fill in some of the gaps not provided in other forums regarding the trials and tribulations of Foreign […]