Category: Intern Year: Winter

Crossing A Milestone

.Reading time 14 minutes.

Y’ALL. I AM OFFICIALLY DONE WITH THE USMLE STEP EXAMS!!! It feels so good to be done with these exams once and for all. They’ve been haunting me ever since I first learned about the USMLE Step 1 exam as a brand-new, wet-behind-the-ears first-year medical student. Back then, the hardest test I had ever taken […]

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The Fire Within

.Reading time 19 minutes.

Years ago at some point during my junior year of college, I posted a status on Facebook that went something like this: “Ever feel like you’re giving it your all in doing all you can and then you look around you and still feel like you’re not doing enough to get where you want to […]

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A Sick Start

.Reading time 10 minutes.

Remember that one time last month when I said I hadn’t gotten sick yet even though I was routinely surrounded by sick children in the Emergency Department? And I had called it a Christmas miracle that I had stayed healthy throughout that time? LOL. Turns out that it was just that. A Christmas miracle. 😭 […]

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An Audacious Decade

.Reading time 11 minutes.

This past year has been one of the most incredible and transformative years of my life. I matched into a specialty I love at such an excellent institution. Alongside my role as the External Affairs National Committee Co-Chairperson of the SNMA, I served as an interim Regional Director for the SNMA and with some help […]

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