update

I didn't get the chance to write about my trip to Kansas City, because I came back and started my family medicine Acting Internship. I have spent the week in the hospital with the family medicine inpatient service and....somehow most of my patients end up in the ICU. I signed up for a family medicine rotation, not an ICU rotation. I'm not complaining - it's just the way it goes with family med. It literally could be anything at any given point in time. It makes the day more interesting. You can go from seeing patients on the floor, to the ICU, and then up in labor & delivery. This next week I will be on outpatient family medicine, so hopefully my schedule will calm down a little bit.

But...as for Kansas City and my never ending quest to find a residency program. My search extends from California to Texas and all the way east to Chicago. You may be wondering why I am searching so far and wide. Well...if you remember my boyfriend, Sief - he and I are most likely going to couples match. Which means that when we enter the match for programs we are sort of a package deal. I will explain this in more detail later, but for right now when you match as a couple you usually have to apply to more residencies than if you didn't apply as a couple.
But in my search I found some great family medicine programs. I'm getting excited about the possibility of moving somewhere new and meeting new people, etc. It's also exciting that hopefully we'll end up in a bigger city - Hershey really just isn't cutting it anymore. Yeah Baltimore, DC, NY, Philly are close, but not close enough & too expensive.

Favorite programs I found? There are a few in Cali I really like, one in Salt Lake City where sometimes they "round" with their patients outside over breakfast (my kind of place), there's one in Corpus Christi that sounds pretty good (but I know that in Corpus they have giant mosquitoes that bite through jeans)! I'm continuing my residency research online and still trying to narrow my list.

I also continue to struggle with my personal statement. I've re-written and hated 3 versions of it now. Oh well..... off to enjoy the weekend!