Military Medical Training - Sophia Williams-Perez, MD Behind the Retractor

Making it through medical school is already a massive undertaking in its own right. Doing it while being an officer in the military and the student body president is another layer of badass. Co-hosts AJ Chowdhury and Camilla Koczara sit down with Dr. Sophia Williams-Perez and learn about her story as a Navy officer and medical student who learned their lifelong passion for heme-onc would find a new fire in general surgery.

Timestamps:

1:00 Matching to a residency without being in the city before

4:12 Meeting co-residents before starting residency in COVID times

6:16 Dr. Williams-Perez's path to medicine

13:21 Being a medical student between match day and start of intern year

16:05 Why Dr. Williams-Perez wanted to be a physician

17:53 Changing interests from internal medicine to surgery

22:02 Do med students actually only stay Behind The Retractor?

26:40 Case load and diversity of pathology at different institutions - what you should know about when making a math list

29:47 Civilian vs military match and residency

30:51 Military training during medical training

39:46 Networking with other military medical trainees

41:23 Transitioning out of med school and into residency

51:59 Final words of wisdom

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