By Gopika SenthilKumar and Jamesa Fabien An international medical graduate (IMG) is a physician who received their medical degree from a medical school located outside the United States and Canada th...
By Hope Feldman and Rebecca Hoffman A mentor is defined in the dictionary as “an experienced and trusted advisor.” This may be an accurate definition, but it is rather vague. It does not begin to...
By Andrea Merrill In residency, we had a nightly event called “9 o’clock meal”. Born out of a former surgery resident threatening to expose our measly salary to the local newspaper, every nig...
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...
By Rachael Sundland As a brand new baby intern, the prospect of starting off with a month of night call feels like someone has just handed you the keys to a cruise ship and asked you to sail across t...
Dear Pat, I am a second-year general surgery resident interested in a surgical oncology fellowship. I come from a community general surgery program without the opportunity for basic science research ...
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” - Robert Frost In retrospect, the past year has been one of pain, unce...
Gender disparities and inequality in the workplace has been a subject of much discussion in the past century. Thanks to the relentless struggle and arduous fighting that many men and women have ignite...
Dear Pat, I am a junior general surgery resident rotating at a new hospital. No matter if I’m wearing my badge which says MD in large letters or my white coat which also says MD on it, patients a...
Two years ago, a friend and mentor approached me and asked me to help manage the communications team for AWS. Like I do with most things, I approached this with gusto. I got organized, made lists, set...