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Thank you @wimedicineorg and @shikhajainmd for allowing me this opportunity to meet such amazing women in the field of medicine and also share some of my work with the world. I had a blast learning from each and every one of the scholars I met. Cannot wait to come back next year!

#wimedicine #womeninmedicine #femalephysicians #doctor #premed

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Ashna Konjeti picked up a mic and asked fellow student ambassador Kelviyana Walker-Valentin what she’s enjoyed most at #WIMSummit.

Kelviyana’s answer: meeting physicians she might never have crossed paths with otherwise.

They’re getting to know people, asking good questions and sending us clips along the way. Student ambassadors, we see you working. 🎤💛 #wimstrongertogether #wimsummit #medstudent

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Swipe through to see who have received Rest & Rx wellness boxes over the past few months.

From long shifts to late nights and everything in between, these boxes are our small way of reminding healthcare workers that they deserve care too.

Thank you for being part of this community and for everything you do for others every single day.

#RestAndRx #HealthcareWorkers #WellnessForHealthcareWorkers #CareForCaregivers #CommunityCare

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i do wear clothes outside of scrubs 💅

truly an honor to get to wear pajamas to work every day but also love love love getting dressed up!!

🏷️ #womeninmedicine #premed #medicalstudent #outfits #futuredoctor

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Congratulations to our Rest & Rx Wellness Box Giveaway winners! ✨

Thank you to everyone who entered, shared, and supported this giveaway. We’re so grateful for this growing community of healthcare professionals who believe rest, care, and wellness should be part of the journey too.

Winners, please check your email and DMs for next steps. Each winner will receive a Rest & Rx wellness box, and FIGS white coats will be sent separately. 🤍

#RestAndRx #HealthcareWellness #WellnessGiveaway #SelfCareForHealthcare

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daily reminder that medicine is political ✊🏽

people are dying, communities are hurting

uplift their stories, be the voice of the silenced 🕊️

🏷️ #medstudent #medschool #advocacy #medicineispolitical #healthcareisahumanright

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loving one another is not radical 🤍

medicine is inherently political, speak up ‼️

🏷️ #medstudent #medicalschool #whatradicalizedyou #humanrights #donoharm

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being apolitical is a privilege ‼️

for the recent ICE murders, for Palestine, for Sudan, for Iran

for the families torn apart by gun violence, hatred, and injustice

for the orphaned, the lonely, the starving, the sick

our world needs healing more than ever, our world needs people to stand up for each other

do not be afraid to be that voice, do not be silent

it is not radical to love one another 🤍

🏷️ #medstudent #futuredoctor #medicalschool #fuckice #politicsmatter

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confession: so I definitely over-glorified surgery before this rotation... 😅

I’ve always tried to be really honest and transparent on this platform, and surgery was… not what Instagram often makes it look like.

yes, there were moments that looked pretty cool and very much like Grey’s Anatomy.

but between those moments were also a lot of tears—over difficult patient cases, hunger and exhaustion, and honestly just personal life happening at the same time.

one could call it a season of many trying times but also some MASSIVE character development.

I admit, there were days I genuinely questioned my will to show up to the hospital after 28 hour calls or processing patient death, and that’s a part of medicine we don’t really talk about enough.

now that this rotation has OFFICIALLY wrapped up and we got our scores back, I can look back with a lot of gratitude and honest reflection :’)

truly, what a privilege it was to learn from the patients, their loved ones, my fellow med student buddies, and the amazing teams I got to work with.

thank you.

(esp to the residents, who had a miraculous patience for this med student who’d drench herself while scrubbing in for OR cases 🤡)

#medstudentlife #surgeryrotation #medschoolreality #expectationvsreality #deglorifymedicine #medschooltruth #characterdevelopment #growthseason #futuredoctor

med student reality • surgery rotation experience • what surgery rotation is really like • medical school honesty • hard rotations in med school • emotional side of medicine • life as a med student • behind the scenes of medicine

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some footage I never planned on posting…

for some reason, I hesitated for a long time to make a post like this… so if you’re here reading this, thank you. it means a lot :’)

most of y’all don’t really know me behind the scenes—beyond the reels and snippets of life I choose to share online.

truth is, I’m so incredibly quite weak in heart and mind. I stress out so easily. I get overwhelmed by the smallest things. And imposter syndrome follows me into every new stage of life, every new door I open.

these traits have felt like major setbacks during rotations. They’ve affected my physical health—sleepless nights, stomach cramps, even vomiting from anxiety. They’ve also created gaps in friendships when stress pulled me inward instead of toward people I love.

sometimes I wonder if this particular combo of medicine + my flaws are shaping me into a “better future doctor” but maybe a less present, less “human” human.

I’ve been working with an amazing therapist to process all of this—to not just cope, but to create space for things that matter beyond medicine. She encouraged me to start video diaries… to empty my thoughts somewhere tangible instead of holding them all in.

so alas, here are some of those moments…clips where weakness turned into tears, but strength came back through prayer.

TLDR: behind the scenes, I’m deeply flawed… and deeply loved as a child of God.

I’m learning to show that side more.

this journey was never meant to be done alone.
He’s been faithful through every breakdown, every late-night prayer, every quiet moment when I had nothing left. Thank you God. 🤍

if you are in a similar season of life or can relate to this, my heart and prayers go out to you <3

#medstudent #medicalschool #doctorintraining #premedmotivation #studymotivation #scrublife #whitecoatjourney #studyinspo #motivationdaily #growthmindset #wellnessjourney #mentalwellbeing #faithoverfear #christianlife #christiancreators #prayerworks #faithandmentalhealth #trustHisplan

medical student vlog, med school mental health, Christian in medicine, emotional side of medical school, dealing with burnout in medicine, faith and anxiety, doctor journey

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med students love and support data-driven, evidence-based medicine 🙂‍↕️

I hid your name for ~privacy~ but you know who you are 🫵

jokes aside, I have two more weeks on my surgery rotation! This has been the most physically draining rotation so far and combined with the sleep deprivation and stress, I’ve been having to check my mental health more frequently in the past few weeks.

All I will say is, I definitely am not at my peak of ~wellness~ at the moment, but it makes me all the more grateful for my family and friends who make every effort possible to show up for me during these more trying times.

Y’all know who you are —thank you :)

#MedStudentLife #SurgeryRotation #GeneralSurgery #SurgicalSkills #LifeInScrubs #MedSchoolJourney #FutureSurgeon #ClinicalRotations #DoctorHumor #MedSchoolHumor #ScrubLife #HospitalLife #MedicineUnfiltered #MedSchoolMotivation #MedStudentStruggles #MentalHealthInMedicine #BurnoutAwareness #ResilientMindset #SurgicalStories #HealingHumor #MedicalJourney #HealthcareHeroes #WomenInMedicine #MedSchoolDiaries #LifeOfAMedStudent #MedSchoolRealities #BehindTheScalpel #StudentDoctorLife #MedStudentCommunity
surgery, medical school, humor, mental health, resilience

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Being a disabled, chronically ill girl preparing for medical school is harder than I ever imagined. Some days, I wonder if it’s even worth it. I fight my own body just to survive at my best, and then I turn to the world around me and it doesn’t care. It’s obsessed with the newest healthcare trend, the latest influencer, while people like me, living the reality of chronic illness and disability, are dismissed, ignored, or treated like we don’t matter.

Even in medicine, a world I thought I was meant to belong to, I’m reminded over and over that I don’t. The doctors don’t look like me, the patients do. The system isn’t built for someone like me. Every step forward feels like a reminder that I’m out of place, like my body, my experiences.

And yet… I keep circling back to my purpose. I keep moving forward, because I know why I started. Because the world needs doctors who do look like me, who understand what it’s like to fight your own body, to be overlooked, to be treated like you don’t belong. I keep going because giving up would mean letting the system win, letting my story, my voice, my experiences be erased.

#chronicillnesswarrior #premed #disabled #incomingms1 #spoonie #blackinmedicine #medstudentlife

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