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Many of us have read Kris' great book, Surviving Residency: A Medical Spouse Guide to Embracing the Training Years and, like me, found it to be a really helpful resource as we have gone through (or in my case, just started) the...er...wonderful experience that is residency.
For those of you who aren't quite to the hurdle of residency yet, I wanted to let you know about a book that my friend and fellow residency spouse wrote for those of you who have (or will have) spouses in medical school. I think it's a nice complementary resource to dealing with those tough years before residency (because, in many ways, medical school has its own difficult challenges for spouses).
Her book is called "At Least You'll Be Married to a Doctor:" Managing your Intimate Relationship through Medical School
Here is the synopsis:
"'If I Wanted to be Married to a Doctor, I Would Have Married a Doctor....Not a Med Student' Medical school is hard. Between the near constant studying, the hours of clinical work, and the stress of staying caught up, a med student often does not have time left for sufficient sleep, leisure, or enjoyment. Medical school consumes a med student's time and energy as well as his mental and emotional capacities. This makes getting through medical school challenging for any med student. If a med student also happens to be in an intimate relationship, the situation can become even more complicated. Pulling from her spouse's experiences with the medical training process as well as from her professional mental health background, Jordyn Paradis Hagar takes you on a step by step journey through the realities of managing an intimate relationship during medical school. She addresses both the med student's overwhelming reality as well as the unique and often overlooked experience of a med student's significant other. From adapting to the initial difficulties that medical school can produce in a relationship, through to the ultimate realization of a healthy and balanced relationship, "At Least You'll Be Married to a Doctor" describes in detail the process of creating and maintaining a healthy relationship during medical school. The reader will leave this book with a strong understanding of the experiences that many med school relationships encounter and the tools needed to manage them along the way."
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1432785419/..._ONRspb1T9D76F
She will also have her website up and running in a couple of days and I will add that when it is available.
For those of you who aren't quite to the hurdle of residency yet, I wanted to let you know about a book that my friend and fellow residency spouse wrote for those of you who have (or will have) spouses in medical school. I think it's a nice complementary resource to dealing with those tough years before residency (because, in many ways, medical school has its own difficult challenges for spouses).
Her book is called "At Least You'll Be Married to a Doctor:" Managing your Intimate Relationship through Medical School
Here is the synopsis:
"'If I Wanted to be Married to a Doctor, I Would Have Married a Doctor....Not a Med Student' Medical school is hard. Between the near constant studying, the hours of clinical work, and the stress of staying caught up, a med student often does not have time left for sufficient sleep, leisure, or enjoyment. Medical school consumes a med student's time and energy as well as his mental and emotional capacities. This makes getting through medical school challenging for any med student. If a med student also happens to be in an intimate relationship, the situation can become even more complicated. Pulling from her spouse's experiences with the medical training process as well as from her professional mental health background, Jordyn Paradis Hagar takes you on a step by step journey through the realities of managing an intimate relationship during medical school. She addresses both the med student's overwhelming reality as well as the unique and often overlooked experience of a med student's significant other. From adapting to the initial difficulties that medical school can produce in a relationship, through to the ultimate realization of a healthy and balanced relationship, "At Least You'll Be Married to a Doctor" describes in detail the process of creating and maintaining a healthy relationship during medical school. The reader will leave this book with a strong understanding of the experiences that many med school relationships encounter and the tools needed to manage them along the way."
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1432785419/..._ONRspb1T9D76F
She will also have her website up and running in a couple of days and I will add that when it is available.
...that makes the whole experience 10 times more exciting, too 
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