Category: advocacy

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 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...

By Minerva A. Romero Arenas, MD, MPH The past 6 months have felt like both a whirlwind and slow-motion. I have been looking for every bit of good news and reasons to celebrate to help keep my mood up...

By Estell Williams, MD and Rachel Issaka, MD, MAS “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of ability left and could say, ‘I used everythin...

By Allison Martin At my first general surgery residency interview in the fall of 2012, I sat across from a senior faculty member at a prestigious surgical residency program as he leveled a tough ques...

By Nancy Lopez As a fourth-year medical student, I am anxiously awaiting the third Friday of March: Match Day. Match Day is an iconic moment for medical students in which the last decade of both succ...

By Patricia Martinez Quinones “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” -   Ralph Waldo Emerson Imagine receiving an email that you have been selec...

By Jackelyn Moya  My first memory of being in a space where I was treated in a “traditional” manner was during my senior year in high school. My counselor was creating my schedule for my fin...

By Stephanie Bonne Who remembers the public health class you took in medical school? More likely than not it was a pass/fail class, maybe a couple of credit hours, that was taught at 4pm on a Thur...

by Jane Zhao, MD, MS Two years ago, I wrote a blog post about the benefits of informatics to surgeons. Shortly afterward, David Schneider wrote a similar article on the AAS blog describing clinical...