Lewiss is an emergency medicine and lifestyle medicine physician, and an adjunct professor of emergency medicine.

Graduation -- from medical school, a master's program in public health, residency, or fellowship -- is now behind you, and you're gearing up for your new hospital or facility and your new role. You may be nervous, not knowing how things will work once you start. You may also now be in charge and responsible for making final patient care decisions. Here are four quick ways to hit the ground running and to get to know your workplace culture.

Understand the Office and Hospital Reporting Structure

Within the first weeks of starting a new hospital job, I received an email from a colleague with what seemed like a friendly ask. But the communications quickly turned into tasking me

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