It’s often been a cruel joke the resident elders often passed on to their unwitting and hapless heirs — the medical interns — at the start of each new training year, July 1.

Interns fresh out of medical school don’t have a bonafide state license with which to practice medicine, but they do have a license to kill.

Such cruel indignity at the hands of newly minted senior residents seems to be steeped in myth as opposed to the perceived reality by everyone involved in post graduate medical education. This, according to a study published in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons in which the so-called “July phenomenon” was not beset with sudden spikes in patient morbidity and mortality rates in many training institutions at the hands of reckless and inexperienced newbie interns. Of course, the only place this data really matters is probably where the research was carried out — at an academic Level 1 trauma center. After all, who would be irresponsible enough to generalize these results to include the universe of interns fresh out of med school? Certainly, not the senior resident. | LINK

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