I'm writing this now from San Francisco, sitting on an air mattress in my new apartment, with the dog curled in a packing blanket that I also used as a comforter last night. We've spent the past four ...

I spent the last week in San Francisco finding an amazing apartment (although I was not really responsible for the finding… credit where credit is due, Lynn) and noticing the cyclists there. As...

Believe it or not, my last real day of medical school was Friday. I finished all of my exams for OB/GYN Boot Camp (which was the most fabulous last rotation I could have imagined), and now I just ha...

As some of you have heard, Match Day is over and I'll be heading out to San Francisco to start my OB/GYN residency at UCSF in June. It's hard to believe that the day is past, and no one really said ...

I'm in the midst of my emergency medicine rotation right now - my last real clinical rotation of medical school. I didn't save it until the end intentionally, and I was a little worried about ...

Today is the deadline for certifying rank lists. This blog is no stranger to talk of rank lists and matching, and I'm about ready for it to end. I talked about my list starting to emerge here, and ...

Between October 4 and December 14 I did fourteen residency interviews, although most of them were concentrated between October 27 and December 14, so all told I did an average of two interviews a we...

At the beginning of the interview process, I had some sense of which programs would be at the top of my rank list*. I also had some ideas about which would be at the bottom. I'd set up a list for myse...

While I'm optimistic that the end of my interview trail will not parallel the end of Blanche from Streetcar Named Desire, I nonetheless feel that, at least right now, I am wholly dependent on the k...

I'd had a bit of a break since my first residency interview, but this weekend I was on the road again for interview number two. This really marks the beginning of the craziness that will be my intervi...

The residency application is definitely moving along. The official opening date for application submission was September 15, and everyone has been doing their best to get their materials in as early a...

Inside every operating room, or at least very nearby, is an appliance that looks like a refrigerator. It does not, however, keep things cold. Instead, it is devoted entirely to keeping things warm; sp...

Somehow it's already been two weeks of my urology rotation, and I haven't shared with you all how awesome it is. I have been busy with other things (like ERAS – the online residency application...

For the past month I've been rotating with the midwives, as I outlined here. One of the things I was most looking forward to this month was getting to attend a tub birth. Delivering in the tubs, whi...

Somehow a few weeks have flown by since I last posted. This may be related to how much I'm loving what I'm doing right now... No, I'm not thrilled to be studying for boards, which I am also doing, ...