It Doesn’t Get Easier, You Get Stronger with Dr. Steven Tringali

Steven Tringali, DO, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at UCSF—Fresno. He earned his medical degree at Touro University—Nevada, and went on to complete his residency in internal medicine at UCSF. His interests include point-of-care ultrasound, procedural training, teaching residents and medical students, and coaching residents to become better teachers. His research interests include cardiovascular risk factors, including blood pressure, atrial fibrillation and cardiovascular events. Dr. Tringali has won multiple awards, including the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators at UCF School of Medicine and the Faculty Best Teacher Award from the UCF Fresno Life Program. Dr. Steven Tringali puts it simply: It doesn’t get easier. You get stronger. Today, he shares helpful strategies for facing and overcoming challenges we face in medicine. He believes that we shouldn’t be focused on how right we are, and what we know. That the best students are those who are willing to accept failure, feedback, and criticism. Dr. Tringali also believes in creating an environment that is built around serving the community. And every day he aims to not just touch the patients he is seeing with his students, but train physicians who will touch hundreds of patients over their lifetime. Pearls of Wisdom: 1. Service attitude which you observed in your parents early on really became a driving force in your own life and formed your mission to train the future physicians that will serve Central California. 2. One mentor is not enough, we need a team of mentors and the good thing is - there is no dearth of mentors. We need to have the courage to reach out. 3. It doesn't get easier. You get stronger. We need to continually build from the feedback we receive from our mentors to become stronger.