By Gopika SenthilKumar, PhD I still remember the news of the 2008 economic crash playing everywhere within a few weeks of us arriving in the US. As a first-generation immigrant family, this meant the...

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: The Best Specialty You Know Nothing About By Jaclyn Tomsic   The famous philosopher Confucius once said, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a d...

Sophie Dream, MD, MPH   My father moved to Chicago at a young age.  He and his father had applied for him to get a visa to come to the United States to further his education.  The day my father’...

By: Ariana Naaseh, MD, MPHS Often the first thing I get asked by friends and family regarding residency is “So what year are you in now?” followed by “So what exactly are you doing?” These qu...

By Yoshiko Iwai Part of being an international student in the US is navigating the complex process of visa sponsorship. I have been fortunate to have had tremendous support from my various internatio...

By: Priyanka V. Chugh MD, MS   When I started medical school, nearly ten years ago, I had an idea of what a surgeon looked like. Largely rooted in the perspective of the media, it was “supposed”...

By: Cathy Hung In the earlier years of my career, I always tried to accommodate patients’ needs anytime, all the time, whenever possible. I opened my office many times off-hours at the slightest...

By: Katerina Jou Setting the scene: My medical school didn’t have an AWS chapter. Surgery was just starting to become a growing presence on the school’s campus, with most students pursuing specia...

By: Amber Park The way physicians provide care for their patients versus the way physicians care for themselves has been one of the most controversial and puzzling concepts I have yet to grasp. The u...