Dr. Myers urges specialists, including rheumatologists, to take on residents, medical students and other trainees when they have the opportunity. “I think sometimes people might worry that having a learner there, a student or a resident, would slow them down and make them less efficient,” she says. “But I think in the long run that experience will pay off in the future, as you get more appropriate referrals and more thorough workups done in patients by the time you see them.”
Ruth Jessen Hickman, MD, a graduate of the Indiana University School of Medicine, is a medical and science writer in Bloomington, Ind.
