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Journeys User4November 17, 2021November 11, 2021Clinical Training Experience, Cross-cultural Experience, My StoryCOVID-19, Illinois, Internal Medicine, Pakistan, PGY3

Human Connections That Travel Oceans

By Dr. Umer Farooq

The COVID-19 patient did not speak English, so we communicated using a translator phone. He taught me a few words and sentences so that I could ask simple questions to other patients who shared his native language. “I can’t breathe” were the last words that I could understand before he was intubated. I wondered if he ever imagined that his last words would be spoken to someone who did not speak his language. Did he imagine that he would be taken care of in his final days by someone born thousands of miles away?

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Journeys User4October 13, 2021October 5, 2021Cross-cultural Experience, My StoryCOVID-19, Mexico, Neurology, PGY2, Texas

Life After Cardiac Arrest: Surviving My Intern Year

By Dr. Samantha Fernandez Hernandez

“This cannot happen… I just started my career. Open your eyes. Move your fingers. Wiggle your toes. Do anything you can to let them know you’re ok!” These are the things I said to myself as I heard the commotion around me. As I felt the excruciating pain of the freshly inserted chest tube between my ribs, I heard someone say, “She might need to go on ECMO, let’s call the team.”

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Journeys User4September 21, 2021Cross-cultural Experience, My StoryArgentina, IMG Guest Author, New York, Obstetrics and Gynecology, PGY2, Well-being

The IMG Event

By Dr. Victor Sebastian Arruarana

This year we celebrated a historic day! On August 1, 2021, an original “IMG Event” brought together more than 400 international medical graduates (IMGs) in Central Park, New York City, with hundreds more connecting virtually.

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Journeys User4July 7, 2021June 21, 2021Cross-cultural Experience, My Story, Words of WisdomHonduras, Internal Medicine, Minnesota, PGY1

Healing in a Time of Change

By Dr. Roberto Fu

As I stepped out of my plane in Minneapolis, Minnesota, I had multiple things running through my mind. Relief was the first thing that came to me. The whole process of joining my U.S. training program had been marred with painful uncertainty due to the pandemic, and yet now I was here. The airport was very quiet that day. It was a clear reflection of how COVID-19 was impacting life in the United States. The road to the hotel where I’d stay for the next few days was lined with empty sidewalks and closed stores.

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Journeys User4June 9, 2021May 27, 2021Cross-cultural Experience, My StoryCanada, COVID-19, Emergency Medicine, Ohio, PGY1

Navigating the Slopes of Intern Year

By Dr. E Chin Mak

I’m sitting in my residency library on a gloomy spring afternoon during my trauma surgery rotation. I stare out the window at the shedding cherry blossom trees, and I reflect on how the last ten months flew by. As I’m waiting for a trauma alert to be paged out, another chest tube, another bedside thoracotomy, I think back to where I was exactly one year ago today. I was packing up my bags in Ireland, prepared to move across the pond to a new country, ready for my first full-time clinical training experience and to start a new life. Little did I know how much I would learn in medicine, and in life.

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