Hi
#MedTwitter
&
#PedsTwitter
! I am Estelle and I am applying into
#Pediatrics
this
#Match2024
cycle. I am passionate about medical education, health equity, advocacy, & homeless health. I love to crochet, train dogs & drink lattes. I look forward to connecting!
What a wonderful way to finish one of my favorite rotations, pediatric infectious disease 🦠, by sharing our work on M. genitalium at the Pediatric Research Day!
Also loved catching up with other students & faculty to learn about their research
@PennStHershey
🤗🔬
#MedTwitter
Very excited to share our recently published work
@PennStHershey
investigating the patient characteristics, treatment approaches & complications in the setting of sexually transmitted infections with Mycoplasma genitalium.
#MedTwitter
Seeing pictures of my friends’ new “PHYSICIAN” badges as they start their intern year of residency is making me so happy!!
Feeling grateful for them paving the way and inspired to keep working hard until my day comes 🤗
8 more days until peds interviews start trickling in 😱 Make sure to check out
@FuturePedsRes
’s “Wrap-Up Webinar: Preparing for Interviews”. Don’t miss out on the amazing tips that were shared during that session 🤩!
Interview Prep & Tips:
Are you missing us already? Well don’t worry, we’re right here- on YouTube! Catch our webinars recorded, including our most recent uploads below, at this link : ! 😎🤩🥳
@APPDconnect
@COMSEPediatrics
Grateful for the opportunity to share our research from
@PennStHershey
on ECG-synchronized pulsatile flow in neonate and pediatric ECLS at the
@8thWCPCCS2023
. It was wonderful experience learning from leaders in pediatric cardiology, cardiac surgery & other experts from around
#Peds
Ward AI by day ☀️ &
@FuturePedsRes
by night 🌙
This past month has really challenged me to push myself beyond what I initially thought were my limits & lean into the uncomfortable to see what I’m capable of. Couldn’t have asked for a greater experience or a better team!
PICU AI ✅
I entered the rotation absolutely terrified but am leaving deeply inspired.
The continuity of care. The attention to detail. The small adjustments. The big changes. The heartbreaks. The breakthroughs.
What an incredible experience. Thank you to all our PICU heroes.
First week off back-to-back AIs has been all about self-care:
- Flew to Iowa to visit my husband ✈️
- Made progress on my Dino-Unicorn crochet project🦄
- Started the 1st season of Suits 💼
- Got a deep-tissue massage 💆🏻♀️, mani-pedi 💅, & haircut 💇🏻♀️
Feeling rejuvenated 😌🌸✨
I love sharing study tools & habits. Learning about all the different options really helps improve each other’s study routines.
Yesterday, one of my friends showed me how to use
@UWorldMedical
’s Notebook & it might become a game changer 🤯
Luis ✨ the dino-unicorn🦄 🌈
This crochet project took me a couple months to complete in the midst of rotations 🙈
I was inspired by the concept that every person is like a unicorn, one-of-a-kind with their unique quirks and qualities 💕
Pattern adapted from Littleaquagirl
Anyone who knows my story, what I endured as a child up until my late teens, knows I was one of those young women. Choosing to get an abortion wasn’t easy. It was traumatizing. But it saved me. Everyone should have that same right to choose.
Our stories, our lives, our choices.
Pediatrician here. All of us in my profession know stories of teens & young women who became pregnant—sometimes through rape—and whose lives would be derailed if not for abortion.
Overturning Roe V. Wade will have disastrous consequences that will echo thru generations.
Very excited to share our recently published work
@PennStHershey
investigating the patient characteristics, treatment approaches & complications in the setting of sexually transmitted infections with Mycoplasma genitalium.
#MedTwitter
Incredibly grateful for the opportunity to share our work from
@PennStHershey
on pulsatile ECMOs at the 8th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
@8thWCPCCS2023
. Looking forward to meeting and learning from leaders in the field from around the world!
IM Shelf ✅
Lots of “educated” guesses. Part of me wants to study today because there’s so much I obviously still don’t know.
BUT will play some Diner Dash on the Switch and watch Wild Babies on Netflix with the hubby instead.
Studying can wait until tomorrow!
Had such an amazing time at
@WIMSummit
this past weekend!
Connected with & learned from incredible leaders
#WIMStrongerTogether
Left feeling inspired, empowered and hungry for more 🔥
Love that
@COMSEPediatrics
created a central place where Peds applicants can keep track of ALL of the program’s open houses 🏠👋
It makes it so much easier to keep track and not miss any of them. Time to put my Reminder app to work 💼🔥
Received some good news this morning while in surgery clinic. When I shared them with my attending, he told me to go, get on the road, and celebrate with my husband 🥹❤️
Deanice is a super star 🤩. I got to work with her
@FuturePedsRes
. Her ability to anticipate our team’s needs, exceptional organization skills & positive energy made our team great and better 👏🏻. I have no doubt she’ll make a phenomenal co-resident and pediatrician! 🧸✨
Hi
#MedTwitter
! My name is Deanice Cruz and I am an OMS-IV considering
#medpeds
&
#pediatrics
for
#Match2024
🤩
My interests include healthcare equity, mentorship, continuity of care, and I love all things travel, fitness, and escape rooms🧩
SO excited for what that lies ahead!
🎉HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to
@mbstephensmd
for being appointed Associate Dean for Medical Education for
@PennStHershey
UP!
Dr. S is the epitome of exceptional leadership & allyship. He always goes above and beyond & inspires us to do the same
What a great day in Happy Valley ☀️
Not being able to wear my Apple watch in the OR makes it so much harder to close my rings at the end of the day.
Strongly considering wearing it around my ankle on those days 🤔
Today, I ran my first
@THON
5K alongside amazing colleagues & friends!
I am not a runner. In fact, this is probably the most I’ve ran since my teens. But my friends encouraged me to give it a try and I’m so glad they did!
#ForTheKids
@PomerantzLauren
Officially done with MS2!
Celebrated by driving up to see my husband with whom I get to spend the next 1.5 weeks with & he surprised me with a
@CheesyEddies
carrot cake I’ve been dying to try!
Totally lived up to the hype (clerkship year & the cake 😋)!!
I recently met with our Dean who taught me a few new words, including Ikigai.
He said he believed I had found my Ikigai in medicine, and I couldn’t agree more. What a beautiful and humbling realization that is.
I hope this belief stays with me as I continue on this journey!
Life doesn’t stop for medical school but when you’re part of a team that’s there for each other through thick and thin, life gets a little kinder and med school a little easier.
Grateful for my life team 🤍
Sunny weather ☀️ = UWorld by the pool 🏖
Pataday, Flonase, and Zyrtec are in. Sunscreen and bikini are on. Waiting for the sun to rise and do its thing.
Today is going to be a good day 🥹
So excited and thankful to have the opportunity to present our work at
@PennStHershey
at the
@PASMeeting
!
We will report clinical findings regarding M. Genitalium, an increasingly prevalent but underrecognized STI that impacting our adolescent population.
#AdolescentHealth
Family and friends are often surprised when I tell them Med School is “enjoyable”. What helped me most was embracing the mindset of being kind to my mind and focusing on progress over perfection.
Anybody that says Med School is “easy” is lying. Nothing about sacrificing time, money & and mental well-being is easy.
Anybody that says Med School is “manageable” is telling the truth. It’s about balance. Focus on what keeps you grounded & build around it. We’re all human.
“I am a unicorn in a field of unicorns”
When I first started med school, I tried to change my personality and mold myself to what I thought was the ideal medical student.
I was embarrassed of what made me different yet admired what made my colleagues special.
Peds Shelf ✅
Saved the best for last 😉
And just like that, I’m done with shelf exams!
Thinking about spending my afternoon playing Pokémon on my switch? Planning on spending the rest of the weekend preparing for our finals next week!
Mother’s Days are always a little bittersweet to me because while I’m really happy for friends who had a beautiful relationship with their mothers, I can’t quite relate.
To all the daughters who, like me, can’t celebrate the way most celebrate it. I hear you, and I see you 💕
What an amazing opportunity to learn from two incredible
#HeForShe
allies, Dr. David Smith & Dr. Brad Johnson, on how to get men to the gender equity table 🔥
#WIMStrongerTogether
#MeetMeAtWIMS
I had such a fantastic time connecting with & learning from leaders in the field at
@PASMeeting
today! What an honor it was to present our work on Mgen. With 350 sessions in over 100 topics areas, this conference truly has something for everyone. Can’t wait for tomorrow!
My husband often endearingly calls me a “study bunny”
So it was only appropriate to celebrate the end of my clerkship/shelf year by crocheting a bunny in my favorite colored scrubs 🐰💕
While I’m enjoying this time off, I’m also excited to hop into my MS3/Step 1&2 year!
Trauma-centered patient care is something that’s talked about quite ubiquitously.
Another topic that should also be addressed is the re-traumatization medical students may experience as they go through their educational journey. (1/3)
👇🏼 Ryan is an amazing leader inside and outside of school. He’ll be a strong asset to any training program and will make a fantastic dermatologist 🤩
#Match2024
#Dermtwitter
#DermMatch2024
#NewProfilePic
let’s go
#Match2024
! Excited to connect with other dermatology applicants and meet new friends on the interview trail! Enjoying just about everything so far, but particularly excited about HS and rheum derm!
#dermtwitter
Today was our first day of MS3 🎉
I’m feeling (in no particular order) excited, confused, grateful, scared, hungry, and tired.
I also can’t believe that by this time next year I’ll be applying to residency 😱
WOOOHOOO Let the Step 1&2 year begin!!
As was completing a quiz that consisted of 10 back-to-back questions on spontaneous abortions, I thought about students who took this quiz before me and may have been reminded of/grieving their loss. (2/3)
@JordyGrewal
I once passed out in front of a patient during an outpatient visit. The attending was to approve of the patient’s cat as an emotional support animal and yeah…guess my knees were locked for too long. That poor patient...I don’t think either of us will forget that day 🥲
🤔😎🤩 Since WEST is the BEST and EAST is a BEAST, we decided to combine both West and East South Central programs for a stellar webinar in 1 ☝️ week, September 5th at 8 PM EST. We are so excited to see you all there! Sign up using the link in bio
@COMSEPediatrics
@APPDconnect
FM Shelf ✅
Shoutout out to the hubby who went grocery shopping and took my my car to fill it up with gas, get an oil change, and a carwash while I was taking the exam!
Time to relax and celebrate by playing some Overcooked ☺️
Guns are the
#1
cause of death in American children.
Not congenital illnesses, cancer, infections, drowning, overdoses, or motor-vehicle crashes.
No. Guns.
Our children deserve better. This shouldn’t be our reality and it doesn’t have to be.
Abuse, rape, and loss (to name a few) are traumas many of us have experienced & will inevitably encounter in qbanks/clinical settings. When it happens, I hope we continue to be as kind to ourselves as we are to our patients…as we were once that patient too. (3/3)
Feeling very grateful for my mentor who designed my adolescent medicine elective for the upcoming month. On the agenda this week are inpatient rounds, gender health clinic, eating disorder clinic & bleeding disorder clinic. Foreseeing lots of pearls & learning opportunities!
Self-identity through Mask Making: how you think others see you (outside of mask) vs how you see yourself (inside of mask).
Grateful for this local youth shelter for allowing me into their homes to lead monthly workshops, and for my colleagues for signing up to volunteer!
My husband had another research article and case report get accepted this week!
I always talk about him ad nauseam 😅 but that’s because I’m incredibly grateful to have found a best friend, supporter, teammate, and role model in my life partner.
🔥 2-second rule to combat bystander paralysis 🔥 react within 2 seconds when a biased, sexist comment is made at work:
🙅♂️“ouch!”
🙅♂️“not cool”
🙅♂️“we don’t do that here”
🙅♂️“that wasn’t funny”
🙅♂️“I don’t appreciate how you just demeaned my female colleague”
@WIMSummit
With a brand new month comes a brand new schedule full of events for trainees like you!
This SOPTember, we're excited to bring you a month full of webinars and networking experiences⭐️
Follow any of the QR codes below or DM us with questions!
#MedStudentTwitter
#PedsTwitter
Decided to start strength training qam w/ cardio bid since this year will be spent sitting & studying for our boards.
A couple classmates have joined me in this new endeavor, and wow! It’s been so fun to stay healthy together & hype each other up, first thing in the morning!
I‘ve since learned to be kinder to myself and accept that I can’t change my story or personality.
I’ve learned to appreciate how conducive to growth being surrounded by colleagues who are different from me, and each other, is.
I’ve learned to be a unicorn in a field of unicorns.
This…and the freedom to not be killed at your local grocery store, your place of worship, your neighborhood, and your own home.
We are better than that. We must be.
The contrast's osmolality is the more likely culprit of the adverse effects. Mast cells are sensitive to changes in temperature, pressure, and osmolality. These changes can trigger mast cell degranulation and result in the allergic-like symptoms seen in IV contrast reactions!
What an invigorating day at the
@PAStateCapitol
with
@pa_aap
. As a medical trainee, I’m deeply thankful for the opportunity to be involved & advocate for our youth. Really insightful discussions with our state legislators today & looking forward to continuing the conversation.
Today, I learned (A/I edition): Contrast reactions are not typically IgE mediated/associated with iodine allergies. As such, patients with iodine or shellfish allergies listed on their chart should not require steroid and antihistamine prophylaxis before IV contrast.
Gotta love the World Cup happening the year I’m taking my boards 🏆
Scheduled study breaks spent watching my favorite sport, jumping up and down, and screaming my head off at the TV? Talk about a great stress reliever ⚽️
ALLEZ LES BLEUS 🇫🇷!!
🔥 Think about how many children I want, by which age, & count back the years to understand the age by which I need to start trying to have children. Be aware of available options in case of infertility.
@JuliaFiles
@AMarshallMD
#WIMStrongerTogether
Many years ago, I shadowed a pediatrician who would always ask his school-aged patients what they would do if they found a gun in the streets and made sure they knew not to pick it up.
It saddened me that this was our reality. It saddens me that this is still our reality.
Pediatricians are on the frontlines, treating victims of gun violence and counseling families through unimaginable moments, every day. These are their stories:
Join us on August 22 at 8 PM ET for our Mid-Atlantic Part 2, New England South Atlantic Part 2 Webinar! We are so excited to welcome so many programs! Sign up link in bio 🤩📝
Got FOMO from hearing all about
#MedTwitter
, so like any other responsible medical student, I paused the
@boardsandbeyond
video I was watching and created a Twitter account. Procrastination or Investment? Only time will tell.
Happening tonight ✨
Can’t wait to chat with PDs & other representatives from the East and West South Central regions to learn more about their programs!
Register Here ✍️ :
@ShreyaTrivediMD
“What did you takeaway” is such a great alternative/addition to the typical “do you have any questions for me?”. Attendings get to see how effective their teaching was and students get to cement their learning/understanding through recall!
A certain amount of antigen binding to IgE bound on mast cells is required to cause significant degranulation, and allergic symptoms.
While flu vaccines are grown in eggs, the amount of egg protein in the vaccine is so minimal it is unlikely to cause an adverse reaction.
@annetteappiah_
@8thWCPCCS2023
@CardiacNeuro
Congratulations on being selected as one of the top abstracts among hundreds from all around the world 🌍✨An impressive feat and excellent presentation! 👏🏻
These youths’ voices matters just as much as any other child. Yet they often remain unheard, or worse, silenced.
Here’s to seeing them, hearing them, believing them, empowering them, and learning from them.
@debaratibhanja
Thank you 🥹 Dr. Mehta was a incredible teacher — she clearly explained all the steps (the whys and hows) and stay calmed throughout which helped me stay focused & gave me the boost of confidence I needed to go for it!
🔥 Respond “why?” to micro aggressions.
@ShikhaJainMD
Example:
Comment: “When I first met you I thought you were dumb because of your accent 😄”
Response: “Why is that? ☺️”