Tips for New Residents: Finances and Emotional Wellness

This webinar is the first in a series of two designed to help new or young residents in emergency medicine get a good start on finding success in and outside of the hospital. In this episode, we will focus on two of the major areas outside of the hospital that residents don’t receive a lot of training on but are major contributors to their overall wellbeing. These topics are financial habits, and cultivating relationships and resilience. Our speakers will offer valuable insight into what to expect and how to begin planning now to avoid common mistakes made during these critical years.

Authors

Jessica Gold

Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry

Washington University in St. Louis
Dr. Gold has been interested in physician mental health and wellness since her masters work in anthropology focused on pre-medical education as a culture. This has only broadened and evolved for her throughout her training and through COVID-19, where healthcare worker mental health became a primary focus. She is also interested in issues of gender disparity, harassment, and trauma in the workplace. Her work also includes media literacy and advocacy. Dr. Gold has written for multiple popular press outlets, including TIME, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Self, and is a contributor to Forbes. Through those experiences, she has become interested in the role of the media (and social media) in mental health and mental health stigma. Dr. Gold believes that portrayals of mental illness in the press, in movies, and on television affect disease models, understanding of illness, and care-seeking.
Sam Shen, MD, MBA

Vice Chair, Clinical Operations

Stanford University Department of Emergency Medicine
Sam Shen is a Clinical Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical Operations and Quality in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. At Stanford Health Care, he serves in the role of Patient Safety Officer/Associate Chief Quality Officer. He also directs the Administration Fellowship in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Previously, he held positions as Chief of EM at community hospitals in Massachusetts. Dr. Shen received his B.S. from Stanford University and his MD and MBA at University of California-Los Angeles. He completed his EM residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. Dr. Shen's academic interests include digital health and innovation, process improvement, and patient safety.
Andrew Starnes
Dr Starnes graduated from the University of Oklahoma, receiving an MD and MPH. His area of focus in public health was health administration and policy, and he has been active in research regarding resource utilization and outcomes in the emergency department and prehospital setting. He was a member of the inaugural RAMS Board of Directors as a Member-at-Large, and was Secretary-Treasurer before serving as RAMS President for 2020-2021. He is currently a PGY-2 a Wake Forest School of Medicine, and when not working he enjoys gardening, cooking, and camping as much as possible with his wife and three children.