Over the last few weeks, there have been several posts on our Facebook Group – Nurturing Medical Marriages™, about how to not be resentful when medical training requires the non-physician spouse to put their life and career on hold for more than a decade. This is such a hard situation and one that many spouses…
Pursue Your Education During Residency, a friend of mine decided to go back to school and finish her undergraduate degree. It was really hard for her to raise four children, support a spouse in residency, and go to school full-time, but it really mattered to her and she made it work. Other resident spouses have…
Find Your Passion and Get Creative I believe that meaning and purpose come from doing what we are passionate about – where we feel we can make a difference for good, regardless of if we are paid or not. Residency is a good example. Residents don’t work so hard because they get paid well, they…
Serve Your Community There are so many opportunities to serve and community organizations need people as capable as you. The AMA Alliance is a wonderful organization that can help you connect with other medical spouses and find opportunities to serve in the community. It is an arm of the American Medical Association (AMA) and is specifically designed for…