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Guillermo Saldana, MS2, Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine Growing up as a child with immigrant parents, I used to worry I...

Priscilla Stephanie Molina, MS1, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine Medical School has been hard. I think when many people...

Bryan Munoz, MS2, Kansas City University I was born in Colombia but grew up in Miami, Florida. I have an uncle in Colombia who is a...

Nina Rodriguez, MS3, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Tengo miedo. Estoy solo en este país, the patient – we’ll call him Señor P –...

Kennedy Campbell, Master’s Year, University of Chicago I vividly remember my neighbor recovering from a foot amputation as a result of...

Ana Mort, MS2, Saint Louis University School of Medicine I moved to the U.S. with my family at 6 years old from central Mexico. The...

Miguel Tusa Lavieri, MS4, Weill Cornell Medical College I gently shake Manuel from a deep slumber each morning, long before the first...

Samantha Garcia, Master's Year, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UCLA Anderson School of Management My mother and I sat inside...

Katherine Guzman, MS3, SUNY Upstate Medical School It's a regular Tuesday morning, I've dropped the kids off at school. My wife worked...

Manuel Cintron, MS4, University of Illinois College of Medicine As healthcare providers, we have all encountered challenging cases that...

Valentina Larrivey, MS3, Emory School of Medicine As a medical student arriving in Atlanta, Georgia, I was filled with the excitement of...

Juan Cuecha, MS2, Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine About the Author: Hi! My name is Juan Cuecha and I am a second-year...

Alejandro Lopez, MS3, UCSF School of Medicine When I walked into the operating room on the first day of my surgery rotation, my hands...

Sophia Manduca, MS3, NYU Grossman School of Medicine “¡Hola, soy la estudiante de medicina!” (Hi, I’m the medical student!”) That was how...