It was approaching 3:30 pm in the afternoon as I sat finishing up progress notes for the day. As I looked at my watch, I felt the feeling of dread start to creep in. At any moment I w...
By Shan Lansing Let’s talk about away rotations. Visiting Student Learning Opportunities, are short-term electives traditionally for fourth-year medical students to experience rotations at an insti...
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 Alyssa Brown “Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong”, called the attending from his swivel chair. It was my first day of third year. I had been placed at the Veterans Association hospital (VA) for a card...
By Erin M. Corsini, MD and Mara B. Antonoff, MD As surgical trainees, we have a tendency to think of mentorship as a one-way street, a gift that is bestowed down from those with great experienc...
By Anna Garcia Whitlock, MD Banting - Metabolism, Huggins - Oncology, Murray - Immunology. These are three of the nine surgeons who’ve won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. To me, it see...
By Danielle Hashmi When I was applying for medical school and residency, I was certain that I would never have children during my training. Despite this original conviction, by the time that I was ge...
By Lillian Erdahl Today I achieved what has been a challenging goal for me, zero tasks in my electronic health record (EHR) inbox. It is unlikely to last for very long, but it feels good to accomplis...
