Tag: womeninsurgery

By Carolina Torres Perez-Iglesias Throughout our lives we meet amazing people that connect with us in meaningful, unexpected ways. They are able to transform our previous ideas into new and exciti...

By Luz Maria Rodríguez This is the Part II of the Grant Writing series published on Jan 14, 2019.  Funding for research grants is made available by various institutions to help research ...

By Daisy Cruz As a Latina in medicine, I am acutely aware of how many of the spaces I am occupying on a day-to-day basis have not been created for women who look like myself. I find ways to make m...

By Elizabeth Lim As a medical student and an aspiring surgeon, I enjoy when there is a definite solution or an answer to a problem. The level of satisfaction knowing that something is fixable is i...

By Natalie Tully, MD, MPH So, you find yourself a freshly minted doctor, headed off to Family Medicine, Urology, Radiology, or any other non-General Surgery residency, and yet here you sit stand t...

By Melissa Alvarez-Downing This time of year always brings me back to when I was starting a new job following fellowship training. After months of searching I’d found an opportunity close to hom...

By Kimberly Hoang “I am going to take a course on time management…. just as soon as I can work it into my schedule”.  – Louis E. Boone As Mr. Boone and Einstein’s theory of relativit...

By Jaime D. Lewis One of the privileges that comes with working in academic medicine is caring for mentors and colleagues, those who make it their mission to pass along the wisdom and art of medic...