Dear PGY3
Dear PGY3 Emergency Medicine Residents, My name is Dr. Tara Coles and I am an Emergency Residency Graduate from the Class of 2005. I was also a Chief Resident during my PGY4 year. After completing residency, I was an Academic…
Dear PGY3 Emergency Medicine Residents, My name is Dr. Tara Coles and I am an Emergency Residency Graduate from the Class of 2005. I was also a Chief Resident during my PGY4 year. After completing residency, I was an Academic…
They came in cars, trains, and buses. Others biked or hitchhiked. Many wore pink “pussy hats” while flooding the streets of Washington DC. On Saturday, January 21, 2017, hundreds of thousands of protesters descended onto the United States’ capital for…
I have never been so sure as I was on Saturday that I was part of history being made. That morning while it was still dark out, I was bustling around my friend’s kitchen, drinking coffee and organizing our supplies….
Raise your hand if you have ever had a male peer interrupt you. Were you in the middle of expressing a cogent thought? Did you have a knowledgeable opinion? Is there any chance that the interrupter had less knowledge on the topic…
In 1993, when Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, I was nine years old and growing up in a house and a community that made this seem the norm. I now recognize…
When I arrived home last Wednesday morning, I was broken and beaten down from a long night in North Philadelphia sharing hugs, tears, and anecdotes with my patients who were heartbroken with the results of the election. However, I had the…
I recently had the opportunity to attend a corporate Leadership seminar for a mixed group of Hospitalist and EM Directors. The attendee list, forwarded ahead of the conference, was promising and exciting: an amazing blend of men and women directors…
I’m an emergency physician, a researcher, an educator, a spouse, a mom of two amazing young girls and associate residency director to 30 of EM residents…and now a candidate for the ACEP Board. I have spent the last 12 years serving as…