Start Year: 2022
Basics
Hometown
Ellicott City, MD
Where did you attend college/university?
Tufts University
Where did you attend medical school?
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Reflections on the Duke program
What were you looking for in a residency program?
I was looking for a medium size program with high acuity. I wanted a program that was small enough that residents knew each other well and were close enough to feel like family. I wanted the opportunity to work develop relationships with attendings and subspecialists after working with them multiple times, and I wanted to know the people I was consulting (at least some of the time). But I also wanted high acuity and a large enough volume/catchment area to see rare and complex zebra cases. Duke is the perfect, goldilocks size.
What do you want to get involved in at Duke that particularly interests you (i.e. committees, research, interest groups, QI, etc.)?
About Duke and Durham
What’s best about living in Durham and the Triangle?
I moved to Durham sight unseen! I'd heard wonderful things, but with interview season virtual and COVID the way it was during our ranking time, I didn't get the chance to visit in person. As a gal who's spent all of her life in the Mid-Atlantic/New England, the Triangle checks off a bunch of boxes. Big enough to have plenty going on, but small enough to be an easy, comfortable place to live. There's plenty going on around the universities, but Raleigh also has a lot to offer separate from the university-feel of Chapel Hill and Durham. It's still relatively affordable, and there were a variety of types of housing available for our salary.
What do you like to do outside of work?
Take care of my many houseplants, read (especially fiction, murder mysteries), drink wine/watch reality TV with my co-residents, run, be in nature, craft (recently learned to crochet), watch Ted Lasso on loop, try new restaurants around town