Ben Gallo Marin, MD 🇳🇮
@BGalloMarin
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Dermatology PGY-2 @StanfordMed via @MSKCancerCenter + @BrownMedicine '23 + @Princeton ‘17🐯| Nicaragua 🇳🇮 | views my own (he/él)
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I’m going to be a dermatologist and the best part is that I will continue to represent Nicaragua in academic medicine in the US! We did it fam!
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Delighted to have matched at
@StanfordMed
Dermatology! To all my many mentors
@BrownMedicine
and beyond, my friends, and family: ¡infinitas gracias! Proud to represent Nicaragua in my dream specialty
#match2023
#dermtwitter
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Patient: are you sure you are not American ? There is no accent
Me: yes m’am I am sure
Attending: Ben is proudly from Nicaragua because we welcome people from across the world at Brown Medicine
Me: 🥺🇳🇮
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I am from Nicaragua. I earned a place at Princeton where I studied molecular biology, and now I am in medical school at Brown. I hope I get to be in your care team one day to prove you wrong.
Most third-world migrants can not assimilate into civil societies.
Prove me wrong.
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Doctor of Medicine! Caminante no hay camino, se hace camino al andar ⚕️🐻🇳🇮
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Mentorship is the reason I was able to make it to med school as an international student in the US and now match in residency. My DMs are open to folks preparing for the dermatology match and international med students/premeds (and anyone else!) ✅
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What a surprise to receive the Dean’s Prize as the top-ranked graduating med student
@BrownMedicine
- and incredibly moved that the award was presented by my dermatology mentor, Dr. Leslie Robinson-Bostom. Proud to represent Nicaragua + the international med student community 🇳🇮
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Todas las personas que fachentaban el hecho de ser amigx/conocidx de:
* Camila Ortega Murillo
* Ariana Ortega
* Carlos Aviles + muchos mas
Espero que hayan aprendido una lección de vida. No hay nada diaverga de juntarse con lacras que defienden a sus padres asesinos y ladrones
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Hey
#MedTwitter
👋🏽 My name is Ben and I’m an M4 from Nicaragua at Brown 🇳🇮 applying to
#dermatology
! I am thrilled to share my story with programs and look forward to working together to improve dermatologic care for people of Latin American heritage
#dermtwitter
#match2023
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My future dermatology program
@StanfordMed
matched two IMGs and this warms my heart so much!
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Very thankful to have been inducted tonight to
@AOA_society
and the GHHS, and to share this moment with my classmates
@BrownMedicine
and family from home 🇳🇮
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What an honor it has been to train at
@MSKCancerCenter
! Next up: Dermatology residency
@StanfordMed
! 🇳🇮
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Three very baby/future dermatologists running the internal medicine service 🫶🏽
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Spanish-speaking patient: usted es mi ángel de la guarda
Me: 😭😇
Yet another example of why representation matters
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it is time
tomorrow, I start medical school in the US - an incredibly challenging journey that many told me to forget about due to my status as an international student
But here we are, and I am ready to fuel a med revolution for Nicaragua and Latin America
#medtwitter
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Hoy mi mama me pidio que deje de compartir en Facebook evidencia del genocidio por el estado por miedo de que el gobierno nos haga dañado. ¿Es este un pais de “paz y amor” como lo proclama Rosario Murillo? Vivimos en miedo. Este no es vida.
@totonia68
@PauloAbrao
@BiancaJagger
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So today I worked with a Hispanic dermatologist for the first time and wow - taking care of patients with a fully Spanish-speaking team is the future 🥳
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My mom and grandma are coming from Central America to Rhode Island for Match Day and I'm so excited to share that moment with them ❤️
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In our new
@JAADjournals
paper, we offer suggestions to increase the # of Spanish-speaking dermatologists which is key to improve care for Spanish-speaking patients. ¡Las nuevas generaciones de dermatólogos hablan español!
#dermtwitter
#medtwitter
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Friendly reminder that central america ≠ south america :)
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This is a tough goodbye. Brown and Providence were so good to me, and this place made me feel for the first time at home in the US - largely because of my many friends and mentors.
In summary, gracias totales. Continuamos el camino en New York (en un par de días). Adelante
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Done with residency interviews! It was very poetic that my last interviewer was also once an international student at a US med school like myself. What a ride! Thank you programs for letting me share my excitement about dermatology and my love for Latin America 🇳🇮 ¡adelante!
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Starting off vacation with the amazing news that the H1B application was approved. See you soon
@StanfordMed
Derm! Thank you for investing so much in me already 🇳🇮
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My scholarly concentration project
@BrownMedicine
is now published after three years of training in qualitative methods, several interviews and translations, and analysis meetings.
Check it out:
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Daniel Ortega es asesino
Daniel Ortega es ladrón
Daniel Ortega es violador
Daniel Ortega es pedofilo
Daniel Ortega es delincuente
Daniel Ortega es criminal
Daniel Ortega es terrorista
Daniel Ortega es matón
#OrtegaAsesino
#SOSNicaragua
#GritoPorNicaragua
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@Princeton
Yo so can you give people who have graduated a new diploma? I didn’t do this major but I am pretty sure people don’t want a racist’s name in their hard earned degree. Also, cover the costa you are rich
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Final batch of dermatology interviews happening this week! It has been an honor to share my story with programs and meet wonderful people throughout the process 🤙🏽
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Returned to the US today and the immigration officer said: “welcome back, we are thankful that you are about to become a doctor for our people” 🥰
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Catch me on the radio! Outreach for our Spanish-speaking communities through a series of summertime skin cancer prevention info sessions
#dermtwitter
#MedTwitter
¡se habla español! ☀️🧴
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@brad_loomis
Also imagine being the med student that is being referred and reading this on Twitter
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-saliendo de Costa Rica para EEUU con los de migración-
-“¿y para que se hizo tico?”
-“nací aquí”
-“Pues no se usted habla puro nica, mejor busque como regresar a Nicaragua”
Y otro pequeño ejemplo de gente en Costa Rica que -detestan- a los nicaragüenses
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First set of evaluations as a PGY-1 at
@MSKCancerCenter
and I love to see attendings recognizing the impact that Latin American physicians can have 🇳🇮 proud to represent Nicaragua at MSK
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Forever grateful to the SCORE program
@StanfordMed
, which made it possible for me to find a dermatology home that responded with heartwarming enthusiasm to my goals of bringing Latin America closer to the scholarly conversation in the specialty. A spectacular opportunity !
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Rise and shine because we have had an impact😭🥳
So thankful for
@BrownMedicine
for affording me with opportunity after opportunity and to co-authors Ghazal Aghagoli
@GAghagoli
, Luke Soliman, and Dr. Frank Sellke
Paper link:
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My dog is staying in summer camp as I trek for another away rotation. I think he is doing fine 🐾
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*Uber ride to ED*
Driver: Are you an emergency doc?
Me: No..med student
Driver: Spanish?
Me (in Spanish): yes. nicaraguan
Driver: I need a favor
Me: how can I help?
Driver: my aunt's name is X, she is sick in the ED, we can't see her bc of Covid. Tell her that we love her
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passed step 3 the other day - what a random and expensive test. Looking forward to just focusing on being an intern now and a one-year New Yorker
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Finding mentorship for a dermatology match as an international med student has been tough. My favorite
#AAD2022
moment was meeting docs who listened to my story. One of them said that they are ready to be seen by a Nicaraguan dermatologist! 🇳🇮 Can't wait to join this specialty
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This Nica boy just finished his last pre-clinical exam! One big step (literally) before M3 🥳
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@RosLehtinen
Make sure Sonia Castro also gets sanctioned even more for destroying our medical system
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@medtearz
I don’t know how your school handles things but I think this merits a professionalism form
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Happy Monday my work authorization was approved today 🇺🇸✅
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Y’all: “Gallo Marin et al., 2020”
🤯😭🥳
this doesn’t happen often to people where I come from - what a privilege to be able to contribute to medicine and science !
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My attending for my Psychiatry clerkship is from the Dominican Republic and let me tell you that I've had an amazing time. Representation matters!
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@washingtonpost
Put simply, the DICTATORSHIP in
#Nicaragua
is KILLING UNARMED civilians - students, children, families. The patterns of repression mimic the terror strategies of ISIS. I invite the people who read this Tweet to help raise the people of Nicaragua. We are human, too.
#SOSNicaragua
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Lovely gift from
@BrownMedicine
to this year’s TAs for the Clinical Skills Clerkship. What a great opportunity to share pointers and experiences with rising M3s as they prepare for the start of their rotations next week 🩺🩻
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I asked my resident mentor to see if we could find this patient. They were still in the ED and I had the privilege to deliver the message, in Spanish. Cool moment.
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I’ve been doing interview prep with my dog and he is quite good at playing the poker face interviewer role. 10/10 prep
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Happy first vacation of intern year from Madrid ! 🇪🇸
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My dog and I are so in sync that we both are waiting for match day like this:
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This comes from the same specialty with a faculty member at an away rotation who referred to me as "the foreigner", a review in JAAD implying that recruiting Spanish speakers to derm has little value, etc. So much work remains to be done to improve dermatologic care for everyone
Black docs account for 3.6% of all dermatologists, and Latinx/Hispanic docs just 4.6%.
Yet this member-led resolution has been submitted to
@aadskin
(American Acadmey of Dermatology) seeking to dismantle *all* of the academy’s DEI initiatives:
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Getting an emotional support animal to power through medical school in a foreign country after going through lockdown by myself has been the best idea I've ever had.
Also my dog can read EKGs and save your life
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1st paper
@BrownMedicine
is now published
@LancetGH
"Love in the time of COVID-19: negligence in the Nicaraguan response". With a team from
@WeillCornell
@DukeCTSurgery
@ChapmanU
@INCAE
, we expose the dictatorship of
#Nicaragua
to academic circles
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Last day of M3. Thankful for my patients, who have been my best teachers, and for the kind attending and residents physicians that have been part of my medical education. Already looking forward to the next phase!
Seguimos adelante
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Favorite M1 Memory: Grandma visiting PVD from Costa Rica 🇨🇷 and playing the role of a standardized patient for my first OSCE - to this day she's the only SP that can make me blush AND lead a Spanglish medical interview
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After some years, I woke up in Nicaragua today 🇳🇮
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My grandfather in Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Maximizing time with my people before the start of residency
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@xiskya
@OEA_oficial
El poder de las redes sociales contribuyo a lo que vimos hoy, hermana
Seguimos adelante por una
#Nicaragua
libre!
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Hello from Night Float (still). Just a few more nights….. 😴
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excited about starting derm residency soon but the cost of living in the bay area is............ wild
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Couldn’t go to AAD this year, so instead I’m sitting in the M1 derm block ❤️ IL-17 remains my favorite after all these years
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s/p an incredible two weeks in the inpatient GI oncology service with spectacular patients and our fearless program director Dr. Salvit
@csalvit515
@MSKCancerCenter
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Step 2 advice: you need a corgi to get through it 🍀
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Literally first time *ever* that an immigration officer at a US airport told me “welcome back, we are glad you are studying here”
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I just received word of several physicians in
#Nicaragua
that have taken care of me who have suspected COVID-19. Yet, the government has refused to test them. Why?
Meanwhile, the government continues to promote mass gatherings. Is this a politically calculated strategy? Yes.
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My attending at the newborn nursery is from Nicaragua! 😭🥳🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮 and he is an awesome teacher too!
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50% of the incoming
@StanfordMed
dermatology residents in New York for intern year 🍎🔜🌲
#dermtwitter
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First day of Step 1 dedicated ✅
A positive attitude and encouraging stickers will get us through it! 🙌🏽
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What a privilege. Thinking of the people of Nicaragua who have suffered tremendously with Covid and will probably not get a vaccine soon. 🇳🇮
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@davidxzheng
I’m honored to call you a friend and mentor as well - your love for dermatology is unmistakable and the future of the specialty will be brighter with you. You introduced me to scholarship in derm and I won’t be forgetting that! We are here for you.
As my tattoo says:
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The Pembroke Welsh Corgi. Otherwise known as the best roommate
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I may or may not make Nicaraguan buñuelos for my co-residents on a regular basis 🇳🇮
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@joshmcgoo
It took me half a decade to realiaze that toxo = intracranial calcifications, cmVVVV = periVVVentricular
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ERAS should have a way to indicate that international M4s graduating from US med schools -do not- need a visa for their first year of residency training (i.e. no visa needed for a prelim year, for example), as we are eligible to receive OPT via our student visa.
#match2023
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1.5 hours until I finish night float forever! Past few nights: saddle embolus, TACO, TRALI, v-tach, massive hemorrhages, unstable A-Fib with RVR, Ischemic Stroke. BUT no dermatologic emergencies :(
Very ready to not night float again :)
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Happy to share a new publication brought to you by budding dermatologists at Texas A&M, MSKCC (me!), Brown
@RachelKLim
, and Vanderbilt
@K8toconnell
. Special thanks to our mentor Dr. Tiffany Libby from
@BrownMedicine
#dermtwitter
Link:
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We were just informed that our paper with
@GAghagoli
was one of the Top Downloaded Papers of 2021 in Neurocritical Care!
Brown Med's international M3s slamming more home runs!
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if we do well on step I will be opening a Nicaraguan restaurant in PVD
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@PauloAbrao
La Policia borrando evidencia de sus violaciones de DDHH - ¿Cual es el problema con que la
@CIDH
entre a ver? Todos sabemos lo que esconden
#SOSNicaragua
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The corgi is now part of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center list of attendings in the intern workroom 🐾🩺
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Prometric cancelled my friend's Step exam *today*, when everyone was already at the testing site. They are understaffed, they said. So what's up with the hundreds of dollars that this test costs and the fees to change the exam? Ridiculous
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Here’s Oliver sending everyone good vibes for the upcoming week 🍀
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