Ortho resident @HSpecialSurgery | @HarvardMed MD-MBA @Columbia | Interested in disparities and education | Believer | Trying to send the elevator back down 🙏🏾
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Mom called me today and finally said she’d get the vaccine. Turns out a doctor from our church preached some truth to her and the rest of the congregation.
All it took was one person from her community that she trusted. One person.
My wife and I are taking a break from social media in 2022. Hoping to unplug from our culture of self comparison and self-promotion to use the extra time and be more present with each other, our close friends, and family. See you in 2023 twitter ❤️
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Doctors mistakenly think that working long hours without lunch breaks and/or weekends off signals our "resilience" as healthcare providers...Wrong. It actually signals our inability to effectively negotiate healthier working conditions for ourselves and our loved ones.
A 3rd year medical student on our surgery team told me he was withdrawing from medical school this month. When asked why, he told me..."I just don't know how you guys do it".
Another bright student lost to medicine. Let's make it stop.
Harvard’s Hope Medical Scholars is expanding nationally after helping over 250 URM students in the New England and Chicago areas. If you would like to open a chapter at your medical school please email us at hopemedicalscholars@hms.Harvard.edu or message me.
Pops finally called yesterday to wish me congrats on my match. He didn’t know the name of the hospital but was still really excited. Turns out when he was a cab driver in New York he used to drop off patients there all the time...
The come up is real.
A dream come true for me, my fiancé, my parents, and the village back home that helped raise me. So thankful to have matched
@HSSProfEd and for all the incredible mentors who made this journey possible.
Hope Medical Scholars will be hosting its next free webinar for URM pre-medical students on March 18th. Our webinar will cover tips on how to best prepare for this upcoming medical school application cycle.
Over 150 students registered so far, please pass along your mentees!
Last chance to register for our Hope Medical Scholars webinar tonight at 8:30pm. We’ll be discussing general tips for pre-med URM and first-generation students applying to medical school. We have over 200 students registered so far, please pass along to your mentees 💪🏾
My best friend Ike is the principal of a small high school on the West side of Chicago. This man just drove halfway across the country with his brother to move in one of his first gen students to Brown University.
This is honesty real/raw mentorship at its finest.
Step 2 ✅
Word to the wise: If you're taking a fifth year, try to take Step 2 before you go off to la la land and forget everything. Trust me.
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My moms been texting me a lot of hospital emojis recently saying things like “praying for you 🏥”
Figured she's probably praying for my residency interviews or for me to stay healthy with cases surging but actually turns out she's just confused and thinks 🏥 is a church emoji...
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After I got rejected from Harvard my senior year of high school, I taped up up my rejection letter on my wall back home for inspiration. Five years later I taped up something next to it.
Couldn’t visit home this break so I had my brother send me a picture for encouragement.
In my residency interview yesterday I got asked what I was "most proud of"...
Instead of mentioning my research or founding Hope Scholars, I instinctively/accidentally said I was most proud of just being a good son to my mom and a good brother my little bro.
A timely article for this upcoming interview season and a sobering reminder of how much work is still needed.
"Minority applicants... have lower odds of admission into orthopaedic surgery residency, even when accounting for academic performance metrics".
Interview season is here. Remember to acknowledge our biases & create equitable & inclusive environment! @NadeenChahine @KateMd #orthotwitter @RJOSociety @AALOSorg @GladdenSociety @nth_dim @AAOSmembers
journals.lww.com/clinorthop/…
#fightforthethingsyoucareabout #AcademicTwitter
Total rockstar, keep on shining Pooja! Your classmates and friends are so proud of you and all your incredible work 💪🏾
Honored to be named to this year's Forbes 30 Under 30 list alongside others equally committed to building a better, more equitable healthcare system!
Grateful to mentors like @sacjai who've taught me what it means to create real change! #ForbesUnder30
forbes.com/profile/pooja-cha…
Wonder if senior medical students could write/crowd source a Uworld-like database so future underclassman didn't have to pay ridiculous subscription fees.
If every student wrote just one question we'd have a database of over 20k questions....
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"I believe that in order to become something, you must see it first - whether the faces of those who walked the path before you or in the dogged determination of your own mind".
Wise words from a wise man, thanks for preaching knowledge to the world Vic 🙏🏾 @adetomiwa__
In my first published piece, I share my experiences as a medical student to show why Black representation in academic medicine is SO important.
Check it out at the New England Journal of Medicine @NEJM !
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
