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How Mother Dog Welcomed Me to Residency

by Ella Mae I. Masamayor, RN, MD

I was up before dawn, dressed in the comfiest, most adult-looking outfit I owned: a blue-and-white floral blouse, flared maroon pants, and navy walking shoes. After enduring an intense 200-point exam, two grueling weeks of pre-residency (think of it like a two-week job-interview-slash-free-trial), and countless days of calming myself down, it’s time for the real ordeal: my first day of internal medicine residency training.

February 24, 2026

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Clinical, Featured, GME, Intern Year, Internal Medicine

What Residency Taught Me About Mind and Heart

by Sagar Chapagain, MD

Third year feels different. Intern year taught me how to work. Every note, every consult, every long night sharpened the mechanics of patient care. You learn to move efficiently, anticipate needs, and steady your hands when everything feels new. It is a year of doing, of survival, of quiet endurance.

February 10, 2026

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Clinical, Featured, GME, Internal Medicine

Clinical, Featured, GME, Intern Year, Internal Medicine

How Mother Dog Welcomed Me to Residency

I was up before dawn, dressed in the comfiest, most adult-looking outfit I owned: a blue-and-white floral blouse, flared maroon pants, and navy walking shoes. After enduring an intense...

Clinical, Featured, GME, Internal Medicine

What Residency Taught Me About Mind and Heart

Third year feels different. Intern year taught me how to work. Every note, every consult, every long night sharpened the mechanics of patient care. You learn to move efficiently,...

Clinical, Dentistry, Surgery

Treating the Patient Who Has the Disease: Looking at the Bigger Picture in Oral Surgical Care

"Good morning. My name is Megan, and I am the student dentist who will be taking care of you today." As a dental student, encounters with new patients always...

Art & Poetry in Medicine, Clinical, Featured

The Children Are Worth It

In the 3rd grade I made a declaration, regarding my future occupation – I would one day be a physician, specifically, a pediatrician! Devoted to serving and caring for...

Featured, Intern Year

Intern Year: What I Wish Someone Told Me

Intern year is demanding. It gets easier. You will grow. You will build confidence. And one day, you’ll look back and realize just how far you’ve come.

Art & Poetry in Medicine, Featured, Pediatrics

For Whom We Cry

For the baby who’s been battered and bruised and for the adolescent already multiple times abused. For the children whose lives are so full of pain that they think...

Clinical, Featured, Intern Year

Most Wonderful Time

‘Twas the day after Christmas and all was not well. In a string of unfortunate events that would make Lemony Snicket jealous, my father had come down with the...

Art & Poetry in Medicine, Featured

The Room in the Corner

Still lungs. / Silent heart. / Time of death: 2:40.

Featured, Opinions

Our Haus, Our Humanity: Lessons from the Queer Community That Can Help Heal Medicine

Since the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 protests against systemic racism, efforts toward eradicating the effects of bias and discrimination in medicine has reentered the national consciousness. While this is...

Art & Poetry in Medicine, Featured

Milestones

Wrinkly face and wonky head; I support your wobbly neck. No matter the emotion, you respond with a cry.

Art & Poetry in Medicine

A Tale of Two Worlds

It was the most joyful of times. It was the most horrific of times. A week before my first child was born, an act of terror occurred on the other side of the world.

Art & Poetry in Medicine, Featured

HANK YO

My fire escape, green from decades of wear and tear, bears flecks of paint that barely cling after gusts of wind and sheets of snow and showers of rain....