In this episode, Dr. Stuart Slavin discusses the challenges of transitioning from medical school to residency with Dr. Andrea Tou, a pediatric gastroenterology fellow at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Dr. Andrew Sullivan, an occupational environmental medicine resident at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences at Walter Reed National Medical Center. Dr. Tou shares her experience of moving from Canada to Europe for medical school and then to the US for residency, highlighting the isolation and lack of support she felt. Dr. Sullivan discusses the additional challenges of moving locations and the lack of support in a transitional internship. Both emphasize the importance of addressing mental health and well-being during these critical transition periods in graduate medical education.
