Topic
Residency
Notes from PGTs and junior doctors — the workload, the politics, and the parts of training that do not make it into textbooks.
8 posts
- 20 May 2026 · Medows · Dr. Soumyadeep Adhikari & Alapan Mondal5 min
The Casualty at 11 p.m.
Forty significant clinical decisions in an hour. Six hours of sleep. The pitch every AI clinical tool gets wrong.
- 8 April 2026 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows5 min
The Burnout Number Indian Residency Does Not Talk About
40-60% burnout in published Indian resident cohorts. The hours are the visible part. The cognitive-load-per-hour is the part we don't talk about.
- 14 March 2026 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows5 min
The Morning Round in 90 Minutes
90 minutes on paper. 1.8 minutes per patient in practice. What that actually means for the round you think you're doing.
- 18 February 2026 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows5 min
What AIIMS Taught Me About Residency Software
Three things I didn't expect from a week shadowing a PGT at AIIMS Bhubaneswar. The paper list, WhatsApp, and the most stressful eight minutes of the day.
- 10 January 2026 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows4 min
What 5.9 Hours of EHR Actually Looks Like
The Arndt 2017 EHR-event-log study, broken down by activity. Half an hour a day goes to navigation alone.
- 25 November 2025 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows5 min
Why We Still Hand Over on Paper
The largest published reduction in preventable adverse events in residency literature came from a structured handover. Most of us still do it on a folded sheet.
- 12 November 2025 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows5 min
The Twenty-Eight Patient List Problem
Miller's 1956 paper put working memory at 7 ± 2 items. The average Indian PGT carries 28 on their ward list. What that gap actually costs.
- 15 October 2025 · Medows · Alapan Mondal · Founder, Medows5 min
The Interrupted Shift
A K+ of 5.9 that should have been caught at the bedside, the 9-minute interruption interval published in 2010, and why every ward tool we have assumes the doctor's working memory is intact.