Abby Spencer, MD, MS, FACP
@abbyWUim
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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Viktor Frankl.
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My cousin died of Covid yesterday. Healthy, vaccinated, now gone. Also found out yesterday that my childhood best friend just died in her sleep. Hold on to the ones you love, check in with your friends and family, take nothing for granted. ♥️
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💕🥇🏆❤️The irony is not lost on me that 3minutes before delivering a Nat’l virtual workshop on “Getting promoted as a clinical educator”, I learned there is 1 MORE
#WomenInMedicine
among the ranks of PROFESSOR! Yay!
🌟karma?
🌟Luck?
🌟Devine intervention?
❤️HardWork!
💕Mentors!
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Dear Interns
Excited for you to start 7/1
Recall
1:you’ve been well-trained
2:you can do this;you’re ready
3:we’ve been well-trained
4:we can do this;we’re ready
5:u are not alone
6:u are not alone
7:it’s not a dumb question
8:we’re already proud of u
9: teamwork,empathy,Bkind
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❤️💕🎉🎊So excited too! Thank you for the warm welcome!
Super excited to see this!! We are so lucky to have you
@abbyCCim
as the Vice Chair of Education and Director of the Academy of Educators
@WUDeptMedicine
.
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Absolutely thrilled to tell the world🌎I’m heading to
@WUDeptMedicine
to support
#MedEd
as VC of🩺education &
@WUSTLmed
director of academy of educators!
So thankful❤️to my amazing mentors sponsors residents APDs & family for their tremendous support!🎉Excited for reunion w Suha!
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🥳🏆🩺📚😢🥰😍😘
And it’s a wrap! Take care
@CleClinicMD
! Wishing all the best❤️to my residents
@CCF_IMCHIEFS
APDs, colleagues,mentors, sponsors, haters, supporters,friends & mentees! You are forever in my❤️! Thx for the memories
@CleClinicMD
!
Onward to
@WUSTLmed
@WUDeptMedicine
!
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“The only way off this accelerated treadmill is to be clear about your priorities & stand your ground & push back against expectations that have little to do w what really matters to you. Otherwise the demands, being endless, will consume you”
@coachgoldsmith
@SallyHelgesen
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🥳💕🏆🩺📚Beyond thrilled to join
@WUDeptMedicine
&
@WashUIMRes
! Thanks very much for the warm welcome!!
Congratulations and a warm welcome to Abby Spencer, MD, MS, FACP
@abbyWUim
Dr. Spencer will join
@WUDeptMedicine
as Vice Chair of Education and Professor of Medicine and as the new Director of the Academy of Educators
@WUSTLmed
effective March 1st.
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#WomenInMedicine
➡️Mentor them
➡️Sponsor them
➡️Hire them
➡️Promote them
➡️Put their pictures on the walls
➡️Not under a “chairmen” sign
➡️Invite them to speak
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🩺📚🩺📚🩺📚🎉🥳🎉🥳📟🏆
So excited & honored to serve our
@ACPinternists
,
#SupportTrainees
,
#SAVEPDs
& enhance patient care by transforming
#MedEd
on the
@acgme
#InternalMedicine
RRC!!!
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First day! 🥳🩺📚Hubby made me a sign too! ❤️ Got to line up with the boys for a pic w/ their first day of in person school signs!! Big day for everyone!
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💕❤️📚🧠22 years ago, I went on a secret date w my Pitt Med anatomy lab🔬partner & best friend. He planned a perfect evening of fun, adventure,walking, talking, piano bar & seeing the sights of Pittsburgh. How lucky I am today to still have all of those things & especially him!❤️
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Remember when the travel ban wouldn’t let our intern Dr. Suha Abushamma back into the US to continue her training? Well 2.5 years later I had the honor to meet her parents from across the world to celebrate Suha’s graduation from IM residency. Next stop-GI fellowship at Wash U!
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Nice chart of asset-based thinking and empathy vs “at least” or “silver lining” type statements....
#empathy
#MedEd
#WordsMatter
#BeKind
#SupportTrainees
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Includes:
💻 video conferencing
🧑🏼🦲crying baby
🍷Wine!!
🤣🤣🤣😷😷😷
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🥰❤️Such a special honor to receive an
@acgme
#ParkerPalmer
#CourageToTeach
award with my hubby, parents, & big sister by my side cheering & beaming!
#ACGME2020
#ProudofTheirPD
#FamilyFirst
#grateful
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🥳🥳🩺🩺📚📚🩺🩺📚📚🥰🥰🥳
First day working in person as VC education & Director if the
#AcademyofEducators
!!
@WUSTLmed
!!
@WUDeptMedicine
@WashUIMRes
@awn_wustl
@WashUFWIM
#WomenInMedicine
#MedEd
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Just me, dad, and my big sis. Oh how we will miss you dad. You were one in a million. ❤️❤️😥😥 The world will never be the same.
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#SupportTrainees
“Ultimately, IMGs are valuable not bc of outstanding test scores but bc they succeed despite the odds stacked against them. This is the “American dream” exemplified”
Change in USMLEStep1 Scores & Implications for Internat’l Medical grads
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🥳🎉🥼🩺🥼🩺🥼🩺🥼🩺🥳🎉💕
Hey world 🌎, my brilliant fabulous niece just got ACCEPTED to MED SCHOOL!!!! People I was there when she was BORN!!!! Literally. And now she’s going to be a doc!!! One more
#WomenInMedicine
!!!
#MedEd
#ProudAuntie
WooT Woot!! 🥳🎉🥳
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🥰😢🤔I’ve been thinking a lot abt who I am if not a
#ProudPD
anymore. I’m so thrilled&excited about my new job & I’m mourning the loss of my residents/apds wondering how much of me stays w them. My bestfriend sent me this & said “It’s as if the other Abby is talking to you Ab”❤️
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My baby boy was vaccinated for covid today!!! Feeling so proud & grateful & loving science!!! 🧠🩺🐧
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💕 🥼💐Honored to be recognized as the inaugural
@WUDeptMedicine
Advancing Women in Academic Medicine LEAD award recipient for “supporting the career development and advancement of women at WashU”🎉🥳
💕Grateful for all those who invested in me & thrilled to pay it forward!💕
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Airport just announced that our pilot has just reached his maximum duty hours and must be “timed out” and therefore another pilot must be recruited to fly our plane. Wow. What would this look like in residency?
@CCF_IMCHIEFS
#APDIMfall2018
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“Done is better than perfect.” Know when “good” is “good enough” by asking yourself, “What’s the marginal benefit of spending more time on this task or project?” If the answer is very little, stop where U R and be done with it. Boundaries!
#WomenInMedicine
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Love this image from
@SashaShillcutt
as a
#TipsForNewDocs
! Imposter syndrome of residency- U never see that the folks who are thriving & seemingly know so much are reading, struggling, crying, learning, focusing, finding mentors, caring for self, sleeping, not sleeping...
#MedEd
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“At the trainee level, real action is accepting candidates that may not fit all the criteria that favor people who’ve always been highly favored. LOR are often tinged with racial bias & test scores are biased toward those who can afford prep courses” NEJM
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🤯❤️🥳🎉👩🏻⚖️👩🏻⚖️My brilliant & talented little boys made this out of Rubik’s cubes!! 🧠🧠❤️❤️
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Reading residency applications. Amazing that even today the deans letter would be addressed to “Dear Sir”. Sigh. Meanwhile, she will be interviewed by myself and my all women
@CCF_IMCHIEFS
team!!
#WomenInMedicine
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🤜🤛🏾😢💕🏳️🌈👩🏻👩🏿👩🏾👩👨🏾👨🏿🦱🧔🏻
Very
#ProudPD
today kneeling w our CleClinicMD CCIMRP residents & faculty to honor
#GeorgeFloyd
&
#WhiteCoatsForBlackLives
. 8min46s is a very long time. After we kneel, we stand, we act, we do better! Racism is a public health crisis.We stand for Justice.
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#ProudPD
for another year of 100%
@ABIMcert
board pass rate for our 2019
@ClevelandClinic
#CCIMRP
grads!! Congratulations
@CleClinicMD
!!
🏅Robust Curriculum
🏅Brilliant Docs
🏅Innovative Training
🏅Engaging Conferences
🏅Balance well-being & work ethic
= 100% Board Pass Rate!!
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Thanks Cleveland Clinic for all the swag on my way out! 🤣🥳Congrats on 100 years!
Wash U here I come!! 💕❤️💕❤️📚📚
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So proud of Suha!!
Cleveland Clinic resident removed from U.S. under travel ban graduates from residency program, says goodbye to Cleveland -
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💕❤️😷🧠🥇🌟🏆 That’s him!!
@ClevelandClinic
&
@CleClinicMD
#CCIMRPalum
,
@CCF_IMCHIEFS
alum &
#IMRP
Director of our
#MedEd
track, the one & only Dr.
@JamalMaharH
!! Heading to NYC
@nyphospital
with 25
@ClevelandClinic
nurses & docs to care for
#COVID19
patients!
#ProudPd
#Grateful
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🥳💕🎉🩷🩺🥼Very excited to be elected to
@AMWADoctors
Board of Directors to sponsor & advocate for
#WomenInMedicine
! Beyond thrilled to work with the board, my amazing
@ELAMProgram
#LCA
@SusanHingle
while she is President & with amazing new President-Elect
@EileenBarrettNM
!🥳🎉
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🥳🎉♥️I’m almost positive she is speaking to me!! 🐆🐆🐆 Such a fan of the AMAZING
@GlennonDoyle
!!
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💗I’m not crying, U are!
May we all have a chance to be seen thru the eyes of those we teach&mentor as a “courageous, passionate&genuine leader w/heart”! They give me much to aspire to in 2020 &much to be thankful for!The future is so 🌟 w these talented &brilliant docs!
#ProudPd
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🥼🩺🥼🩺🥳🎉🩷💕🏆🥇🩺Tremendously grateful & excited to be honored with the
@AAIMOnline
APDIM Dema Daley Founders award. She was a remarkable woman who inspired so many in
#MedEd
. Dema’s colleagues are my mentors & sponsors. So appreciative of the work we get to do together. 🙏🏼
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💕🩺🥇🏆🏆🧠🎤📚
Didn’t think I could be more excited to join
@WUDeptMedicine
&
@WUSTLmed
but watching their amazing Q&A Grand Rounds this morning with my future chair
#DrFraser
side by side chatting with
#DrFauci
was out of this 🌎!! So lucky to be joining
#WashUMed
!
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Very grateful to celebrate this special day q year w my one and only!! Laughing &dancing thru life every day (most days) like it’s one to celebrate. What a journey it’s been.
💕❤️💕❤️🎶🥂🍪🍿🍾🍦🍨
Ps pic
#3
is ALL
#WomenInMedicine
!
(IMx3, anesth,urogyn, Ob/Gyn, MFM, pccm, peds)
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🌟Very excited&honored to be
#KeynoteSpeaker
at
@WeillCornell
#PrimaryCare
&
#HospitalMedicine
#Innovations
Symposium!🌟
✨Can’t wait to learn from the innovative & accomplished
#ProudToBeGIM
Docs & Trainees of
@WCMGIM
!✨
#MedEd
#WomenInMedicine
@JudyTungMD
@LisaKernMD
@WPSA1
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🥳🎉♥️♥️😷🩺🥰And I thought being back on the teaching service was the best part of my day!! 🥰💐💐
So lucky in love! A nice surprise waiting for me after a LONG day!!
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✍️✍️📑📑🩺🥼Wrote FOUR academic promotion LOR today!! Happy to support so many fabulous
#WomenInMedicine
Also wonder if there is a better way!!?
#MedEd
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#GiveHerAReasonToStay
in Healthcare campaign has officially launched!🩺🥳🩺🧠📚
Join us to:
1.AMPLIFY
#WomenInMedicine
2.ASK leaders to take specific actions now to support
#WomenInMedicine
👩🏾🔬👩🔬👩🏽🔬👩🏻🔬
Thx to
@WUDeptMedicine
for sending 10🚺 to Prof Devt Conferences!
#WIMMonth
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My 10 year old writes out formula to solve for how many residents need to be on rotation X at a time to give all residents 2 weeks each of X rotation over 3 years of training. his solution is 2 residents at a time with a 3rd resident on every 3 weeks. Future
@CCF_IMCHIEFS
!!
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😡🤬🥲Another tragic loss of a local
#GIM
#WomenInMedicine
. When will it stop?! More donations to national suicide prevention. Please keep checking on all who you love. Let people know you see them, value them, care about them.
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Onward!!! More & more excited & grateful everyday!! ❤️🥳❤️🥳
The circle of academic life!
🩺📚🤪😀😃Transitions are tough, exciting, invigorating, scary, amazing, reflective & renewing.
Forever a
@CCF_IMCHIEFS
#ProudPD
in my❤️!
#MedEd
#WomenInMedicine
@WUDeptMedicine
@WashUFWIM
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For all the new
#INTERNISTS
who just learned they matched into the amazing field of internal medicine, tell us who you are!!
We can’t wait to welcome you into
@SocietyGIM
@ACPinternists
& all of our subspecialty organizations!!
Congratulations & Welcome to
#GIM
!
#Match2019
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🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉Two of my favorites!! Thank you
@SocietyGIM
for the chance to catch up with
@mlypson
&
@UREssien
! Love the important transformational work they both do— hey
@ELAMProgram
, check out
@mlypson
as our
#sgim22
prez & her amazing new
#MedEd
dream job!!
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It’s been a year! Any “Dear Sir” deans letters or LOR coming our way this year?! Hopefully instead will see “Dear Program Director.....”
Reading residency applications. Amazing that even today the deans letter would be addressed to “Dear Sir”. Sigh. Meanwhile, she will be interviewed by myself and my all women
@CCF_IMCHIEFS
team!!
#WomenInMedicine
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Let’s
#GiveHerAReasonToStay
in Healthcare!
#WIMMonth
📖Cite her
🔬Fund her
🥇Nominate her
🏆Promote her
💵Pay her💰
🎤Amplify her
🎬Sponsor her
🏝Show you appreciate her
✈️Send her to Prof Devt Conf
@ELAMProgram
@WUDeptMedicine
@WashUFWIM
@JulieSilverMD
#WomenInMedicine
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Precepting & teaching in
@WUDeptMedicine
@WashUIMRes
#IM
resident clinic 🩺 is so much fun!!!
#MedEd
! 🥳🧠🩺🩺💪🏽💪🏼💪🏿💪🏾🩺
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If you’re going to celebrate Promotion to Professor, this is the way to do it!! Thank you ladies!! ❤️🍓🍓🥂🥂❤️🍓🍓😷😷❤️🌺🌸
@CarrawayHetty
@ReedVickiMD
@WPSA1
#Marleina
#WomenInMedicine
#MedEd
#BossLooksLikeALady
!🎼🍓❤️
#WellnessWednesday
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Thank you
@WUDeptMedicine
!! Very excited to serve
@SocietyGIM
on the editorial board of
@JournalGIM
!
#MedEd
#WomenInMedicine
@WashUFWIM
@AagaardEva
Let’s get reading! 📚📚📚🩺🩺
#ProudtoBeGIM
#WomensHistoryMonth
@ELAMProgram
fellow,
@AAIMOnline
councilor & DOM’s new Vice Chair for Education, Abby Spencer, MD has been selected to the Editorial Board of
@JournalGIM
where she will continue to advocate for
#MedEd
#DEI
&
#WomenInMedicine
!
@abbyWUim
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🥳❤️🥰📚I’ve always been so honored to share a birthday🎂 with Martin Luther King Jr. Thinking of him today as I do every year and wishing us both a happy birthday with a prayer for a better, more inclusive, equitable, diverse, just and brighter tomorrow for everyone. 💕
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“Women in leadership face cultural & systemic hurdles that make it harder to advance such as unconscious bias”.
To overcome hurdles:
1) Form close trusting connections w/women
2) Amplify women
Power Of The Pack:Women Who Support Women Are More Successful
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Tragedy. 😢 We have just lost one of the best warriors for justice. Her impact is historic and beyond inspiring.
#HerTimeIsNow
We continue to fight for justice! 💪🏿💪🏽💪
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 : NPR
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🥳📚🩺🥳🥇💪🏽💪🏼💪🏾💪🏿
Wishing a very happy
#WomenPhysiciansDay
to all the incredible
#WomenInMedicine
who are leading, advocating, inspiring, mentoring, healing, advising, teaching, sponsoring, innovating, smashing glass ceilings, overpowering sticky floors, including, publishing...
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I stand corrected. THIS is the most amazing
#tweetup
#selfie
EVER!! Congratulations to
@aoglasser
@MargMChapman
@michellebr00ks
@RJmdphilly
on their incredible workshop! 10/10!
#AIMW19
#AIMWTweets
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🤪🙃🤔 The irony is not lost on me that while I’m reading our
@ELAMProgram
book on leadership & balance, neither of my kids will go to sleep, my dog won’t stop barking at her reflection & I just begged my husband to take care of all 3! How’s that for total leadership? Oy.
#Team
😯
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Thank you! So excited to be awarded an
@AAIMOnline
#innovation
grant that will allow us to advance
#WomenInMedicine
trainees earlier in their training! Thrilled to be working with
@ReedVickiMD
&
@LinaMehta
to develop & deliver our
#womeninleadership
curriculum!
#MedEd
@WPSA1
Extremely proud of our PD, boss, and mentor
@abbyCCim
on her
#AAIM
Innovation Grant “Don’t just lean in ladies, it’s time to RISE” advancing women trainees like us.
@CCF_IMCHIEFS
@CleClinicMD
@ClevelandClinic
#womeninmedicine
#mentorher
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🥳😲🤔🤓😃Its a big eve!! First day of in person middle school ever eve, first day back to elementary school in a year eve, and FIRST DAY of new job eve!!! So much excitement, nerves, anticipation, and optimism!!!!
🥳❤️📚🩺
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🩺🥼📚🩺🔬🧫🧬🧪👩🏻🔬🥳
What an amazing treat to meet & discuss
#WomenInMedicine
& leadership with the incredible Dr. Rochelle Walensky!!
@CDCDirector
@RWalensky
@CDCgov
Excited to hear her
@WUDeptMedicine
GrandRounds tomorrow! 🥳🎉🩺📚🥼😷😷😷
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❤️💕So this rockstar
#WomenInMedicine
is a
@CleClinicMD
#CCIMRPalum
,
@CCF_IMCHIEFS
alum, now
#APD
of
#ClinicalReasoning
& prof devt for the residents! She shines☀️brightest when teaching, mentoring & encouraging trainees. Creative, energetic & always
#SupportsTrainees
#ProudPD
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Putting together a talk, what do YOU love about mentoring others? What’s something you achieved/accomplished/are proud of because of having a mentor?
#WomenInMedicine
#heforshe
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🎉🥼🩺❤️📚🧠🫁🫀Wishing all residents & fellowship programs participating in
#MatchDay
the best of luck, joy & happiness! It’s a celebratory day for many, sad & disappointing for some, stressful for most.
#MedEd
is routing for u! The match does not define you!
#SuppottTrainees
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💕❤️🥇Wishing all the best to excellent educator
@CleClinicMD
Dr. Craig Nielsen who now leads the
#CCIMRP
as interim
#ProudPD
!
#MedEd
#match2021
@MedStudentChat
Be sure to follow
@CCF_IMCHIEFS
& get to know the new program director of Cleveland Clinic
#IMRP
!
@AAIMOnline
@acgme
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Woohoo!! I got to 2444 followers! Seems worthy of a celebration. Thanks to everyone who loves to reflect on
#MedEd
#WomenInMedicine
#mentorship
#proudtobeGIM
#SupportTrainees
#wellbeing
& all things
#CCIMRP
with me!
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Two weeks until his bar mitzvah!! ❤️🔯🔯❤️ How can this be?? Bursting with pride!! 🥰🥰🥰
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🥳🎉🩺⚖️🩺🤝📚📖🥼🥼🩺
Time flies when you’re having fun!🥳Hard to believe it’s been a year since I started at
@WUDeptMedicine
as
#VCEducation
& Director of
@WashUAcadEd
! Loving all the opportunities to
#SupportTrainees
& promote
#MedEd
!!
#WomenInMedicine
Grateful for my 🦦raft!
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“Toxic environments make people sick, make projects fail, and make best employees quit. People don’t leave jobs, they leave toxic environments”
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