Jack Fanton
1998-2003
NIMH-funded researcher
Child Psychiatry, Bay State Medical Center
What did you enjoy about your triple board training? That it was only 5 years. Good grief!?! Three boards? That could have gone on forever. I’d still be a resident if they hadn’t consolidated those years down for us. That was a blessing.
How does your triple board training impact your practice now? I am extremely well trained. Basically, I am the most over-qualified daddy on the block. I know more about emergency procedures to remove erasers from noses, how to deal with delusional in-laws, and, depending on the insurance, who can be seen by whom for what in which ER.
And that’s not all. Without triple board training, I’d just be a hapless fellow who wouldn’t understand how BPD has universal connotations (for you non-triple boarders, that stands for either broncho-pulmonary dysplasia, borderline personality disorder, or bipolar psychotic disorder).