Aspiring Docs Diaries

Stories by: Residents

Mar 11, 2024

What Happens When You Don’t Match?

Every medical student dreams of Match Day. This is the ultimate goal that drives many med students through the grueling […] Read More

Nov 17, 2023

Beyond the Usual:  Ordinary Moments, Extraordinary Stories 

High acuity situations in emergency medicine can feel like a whirlwind. The excitement of heroic resuscitations and the thrill of […] Read More

Jun 24, 2022

Non-Accidental Trauma

It was the end of my last year of pediatric residency. My last block was spent with the Protective Services […] Read More

Apr 29, 2020

On Becoming A Doctor: Facing COVID-19

It was almost ten months into intern year of residency and I was on my second block on the General […] Read More

Feb 28, 2020

Becoming (And Staying) Human

It’s funny how strictly we label each phase of our medical training. We carefully divide and demarcate each stage: premed, […] Read More

Aug 15, 2019

The Match Gods

Match week is possibly the most emotionally exhausting weeks in all of medical school, beating out waiting for board scores, […] Read More

Aug 2, 2019

Events Overnight – Five Days Old

“How are things on Red Team?” “Everyone’s doing okay so far!” I laugh before adding, “I’m not using the Q […] Read More

Jul 3, 2019

Prognosis: Poor

I sat, unaccountably, at the head of a table in the resident lounge, listening to our Heme/Onc fellow begin the […] Read More