by Ara Salibian, MD (@AraSalibianMD) The scenario is all too familiar. It’s midnight after a long day in the OR, and shortly after getting home, your sleep is inevitably interrupted. After some quick self-motivation, you […]
by Kate S. Boehm, MD (@KateSBoehm) Last week hosted another great PRS Journal Club! Discussed was the study titled “Microsurgical Reconstruction of Traumatic Lower Extremity Defects in Pediatric the Population” by Momeni et al. from […]
by Jordan D. Frey (@JordanFreyMD) and Sammy Sinno (@sammysinnoMD) Every March, thousands of medical students across the country gather together for what may be considered one of the seminal moments in their lives: Match Day! For […]
The November edition of the #PRSJournalClub discussed, “Barriers to reconstructive surgery in low- and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of 453 cleft lip and cleft palate patients in Vietnam”
by Antonio Paulo Pitanguy, Plastic Surgery Resident I have always been very close to my grandfather. I remember on the weekends when we went to the island (figure 1), I often preferred talking to him than […]
by Gina Farias-Eisner (@GinaFariasMD), Jordan D. Frey (@JordanFreyMD) A response to: “13 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Became a Plastic Surgeon” On July 1, hundreds of new interns will arrive promptly for morning rounds, […]
we share our experiences in developing separate Plastic Surgery Interest Groups, in order to start the conversation with other students around the country in order to turn our interests into successful residency matches and careers as plastic surgeons
by Raja Mohan, MD At the end of my second year of residency, I was on call for the downtown plastic surgery service at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and I knew after sign-out, I’d be in […]
By Ashley N. Amalfi, MD Everything changes when you become a parent. My husband and I were forced to become parents long before we met our son. At our 20 week ultrasound, the technician had […]