Feeling Underprepared for Intern Year? Why Every New Resident Feels This Way
Every incoming intern feels underprepared—it’s not a personal failing, it’s a structural feature of medical training. Medical school teaches you to pass tests, not to manage a patient panel at 2 AM. The anxiety you’re feeling isn’t evidence you don’t belong; it’s evidence you’re paying attention to the gap between what you know and what you’re about to do.
Physicians Exit Nine Years Earlier, Reshaping Supply
New research reveals physicians are leaving clinical practice nine years earlier than in 2008, with women departing 15 years before men. This career compression creates a hidden supply shock that workforce planning models have systematically underestimated, fundamentally reshaping recruitment leverage and compensation dynamics.