By Alyssa Brown “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Pediatric geneticist was my answer from high school through the first weeks of medical school. I had shadowed twenty physicians before m...
By Dr. Lillian Erdahl When I got married at the beginning of my lab years, two years into seven years of General Surgery Residency, I was not sure that I wanted to be a mother. I had been single-mi...
By Erin Garvey, MD, FACS Last October, I watched as the new 2019 Fellow initiates processed into Convocation at the ACS Clinical Congress in San Francisco. I felt excited as I imagined myself and the...
By Elysa Margiotta, MD I could have given up. I could have decided that it was all too much to handle, and just faded away. To say that my path to becoming a physician was eventful is an understa...
By Justine Broecker, MD An Interview with Dr. Toncred Styblo, a surgical oncologist within the Department of Surgery at Emory University for over 30 years, with her daughter, Dr. Justine Broecker,...
By Justine Broecker, MD An Interview with Dr. Toncred Styblo, a surgical oncologist within the Department of Surgery at Emory University for over 30 years, with her daughter, Dr. Justine Broecker, a ...
By Simone Betchen, Jamie Ullman, and Martina Stippler Women make up a small percentage (7%) of neurosurgeons in the United States according to the 2017 AAMC data. However, whenever I go to national c...
By Chantal Reyna MD, FACS Lets face it, 2020 has not been kind. Pandemic. Race Riots. Unexpected Deaths. It has been a challenging year on many fronts. Hopefully it will lead to increased awareness o...
By Amira Hanis Amir I was a second year medical student and had a few free weeks of my summer in 2019, so I decided to do a three-week elective in Ireland. The first day started with a four-hour clin...
By Cheryl Zogg Since joining AWS in my first year of medical school, running my school’s local chapter as an M2, and spending the last three years as a member of the AWS National Medical Student Co...
