By Fabiola Valenzuela As one of the winners of an essay contest held by the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine (https://www.utrgv.edu/school-of-medicine/) Surgery Department a...
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Becoming a Woman in Surgery
by Rachel Salinas Becoming a surgeon is an intimidating endeavor. The moment I said it out loud, people would comment on how hard the hours are, how mentally and emotionally exhausting this career...
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Top Tips for Surgical Interviews – an AWS Tweetchat Summary
by Camila Guetter On September 17th, the AWS Twitter Committee in partnership with the AWS National Medical Student Committee hosted another extremely successful #AWSchat tweetchat to discuss Surgi...
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Do you dare to be you?
By Dr. Jaime D. Lewis Do you dare to be you? Have you taken a chance on yourself to live out your dreams? To be true to the voices inside your heart? When was the last time you trul...
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“Peri-Menopause”
By Arghavan Salles In January of this year, I started investigating the process for egg freezing. Having spoken with three more reproductive specialists after my original consultati...
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Dear Pat responds to Missing Mentors
Dear Pat, Many of my male faculty have suggested that I find a female mentor to help me with career development. However, we have a handful of female faculty at my program, and I do not have a clos...