Michael P. Flynn, MD
Dr. Flynn is a resident at UMass Worcester Family Medicine Residency in Worcester, Massachusetts. He earned his medical degree from UMass Medical School.
What are your greatest professional interests?
Academic medicine and leadership have been big passions of mine since medical school, particularly at a residency level. It is those particular interests that drew me to the AFMRD! I have greatly benefited from the teaching and mentoring I have received as a medical student and now resident, particularly from those in family medicine and our residency director, and would like to return that service to future learners wherever my career takes me. I also enjoy working on ways to make our clinic and residency site more efficient from an administrative burden standpoint, particularly around EMR use. From a family medicine career standpoint, I particularly enjoy hospitalist medicine and am open to mixing that with clinic-based work and prenatal/postpartum care.
What are your personal hobbies and interests?
Right now, our focus is on getting ready for our second son due in January 2019 and spending as much time as we can with our 2-year-old son as residency allows. Beyond that, I have been a guitar player for the majority of my life and enjoy trying to get cheers from a 2-year-old audience. At some point, I hope to get back on the golf course and basketball and tennis courts since I played a lot of all three "back in the day." For now, I can settle for anything that keeps me active, and my children will help with that!
If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing about graduate medical education, what would it be?
I would echo some of what my predecessor Dr. Hartl said about finding some magical way to make all residency practice sites operate at their optimal level of efficiency. I am just getting exposed to it as a PGY-2 with a larger patient panel, but I hear the complaints of many of my co-residents and faculty around documentation and paperwork that take away from the joy of caring for our patients. It is those clerical tasks that keep us from spending time with our family and friends and using the little but important time we have outside our residency schedule to take care of ourselves. As much as I love taking care of my patients, my favorite part of the day is seeing my son watching me come home through the window, so I am working with our residency to come up with ways to make that magic wand a reality so we can all maintain an ideal work-life balance.