Hello again,

Just wanted to give some background on this forum. This forum is just about a week old and replaces several of our old forums where we had several thousand messages. It should get going and be totally excellent. We've had over 3000 of you coming through this forum but only 70 join. Consider joining us and making for great chat and learning.

Please all introduce yourselves so we can become one big happy family!!

Sethina
MomMD Founder

Hi. Just a quick intro. My name is Susan, I just graduated from UCSF medical school and am about to start my pediatric residency at Mt. Sinai in NYC. I'm both excited and scared! I don't know what to expect from residency but if the rumors are true...I'll stop by when I can!

Hi everyone!

Sethina, I was just now able to log in and I say the new site looks great! For those of you who've been at MomMD for the past few years, you know how great this is...the membership has grown to the point of needing this new site. It's the result of Sethina's efforts. (Thanks!)

I'm in the process of applying to med school now. I've designed my own post-bacc program at a satellite of Penn State (with a terrific pre-med advisor) and have previous degrees in fine arts (BFA, MFA). There are several women on Mom MD with arts backgrounds, so please reintroduce yourselves if you haven't already. Anyhow, I've gotten to do some clinical research, shadow, tutor, and volunteer. It's quite a process, but something I've always wanted to do.

We also have 2 sons (ages 12 & 9). My husband is a programmer and we plan to sell our house, hopefully buy a house, and move when I get into med school. We've also done a lot of family camping trips...for the past 2 years, that's included "drop me off at the closest med school" for a few hours (while my husband takes the children on a different adventure). I've gotten to look around, tour informally, and sometimes had an appointment with another older student at a med school. Now that I'm applying, I wish I could have seen even more schools! Who else here is applying this year? Good luck eveyone!

Mary
:p

Hi everyone-

I hope we'll get to engage in some great conversation in these forums. I'm about to turn 25 and am applying to medical school next yr for fall 2004. I graduated from Barnard College in 199 with a degree in biochemistry. Been working fulltime for a wall street firm in a completely different field but medicine was always my dream. Took the april 2002 mcat and am planning on doing additional coursework this fall/next spring before applying. I live in NYC.

-bonnie

Hi y'all-

I'm a 4th med student at University of Vermont with 2 kids. My daughter is 27 months and my son is 7 months old. My husband is an internist looking to retire from medicine after I finish my training, which will hopefully be done before I reach retirement age myself;) Just kidding...actually, both my husband & I are in our early 30's, but he's interested in going into business or law.

I introduced myself below in the parenting forum, but I'll bite again.

I'm 32 and am the sahm to three children (7,6 and 3). I recently finished my MS in mol biology and have been taking time off to spend with the kids. My husband also recently finished a rather malignant ID fellowship and we are all trying to recover from that as well!

I look forward to getting to know everyone.

What would you think about having a forum just for introductions? These intros tend to get lost in the posts..........

just a thought...

Kris

Hi,
I am a first year medical student in Australia and Mum to two girls, who have just turned 6 and 4. I found mommd last year, when I finally had the chance to pursue my dream of being a doctor again after putting it on hold/ trying to ignore it for 16 years or so (my, how the time flies!!!).It really encouraged me to persevere, and now here I am - a medical student!!! We started in Feb over here, and these last few months have been fantastic!!! I think that by being older I really appreciate the privilige (sorry about the spelling!)of going to med school. Anyway, to those of you still trying to get in, don't give up if this is what you really want! After not getting in from high school, I thought I had no chance, but I was wrong!!!
All the best to those of you starting med school soon! I'll look forward to hearing of your experiences.

Hi,
I am a mom of an almost 2 year-old boy and I have two step children, a 10 yo girl and a 13 yo boy. I had completed my general psychiatry training at Brown and just graduated from the fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Brown too.
I have a brand new job where I'm working in Women's mental health. I am lucky to be working with amazing women at a day hospital for post-partum depression and I'm in the process of building up my outpatient practice for Women either pregnant or postpartum or with various Gyn conditions.
It feels like I've been training forever but the day finally came and now I'm in "the real world".
I'd be happy to share some of my experiences applying to residency programs and while in residency as a mom. Can't say much about med school since I'm an FMG.
I have supportive ex-husband and I'm still now having to juggle call and life as a mom.
To all the young moms and med students I can only say: Yes, we can do it all and still be good at it.

Hello everyone. I'm pushing 40 and applying to the 2003 class. Like the lady in Aus, I too put things on hold because when I graduated from HS in Australia way back in 1981 I didn't get in to med school. I came to the US as a pre-med student but didn't do as well as I hoped and so chose other paths. Now I am ready to finish what I began and pursue my dreams. I

'm the mother of 5 children -- ranging in age from 24 yrs to 3 yrs. Yes, I was a teen mom but a teen who was determined to make a life for myself and not be dependent on others. Parenting has been difficult as 2 of my girls are deaf and today I learned that another daughter is most likely suffering from bi-polar disorder. She is currently medicated for absence seizures and migraines (age 6). But nevertheless I believe my experiences and my ability to continue with life and school and raising/nurturing children with disabilities will make me a compassionate and empathic doctor one day.

The road has been tough. Sitting the MCAT after being out of school for 15 yrs was difficult and I didn't do as well as I wanted so I will retake it in August. Now it is back to the books. My application is in to AMCAS and I have taken time to visit one medical school several times and have been pleased with the welcome response and assistance the admissions counselor has provided.

Unfortunately my husband does not want to move so I am limited to applying to 3 schools where I can commute or have an appartment close to home. And that's ok.

I'm excited and pray that my dreams will come true.

Hey everyone, i'm a 32 year old mother of a beautiful and rambunctious (SP?) 22 month old and my life dream is to become a doctor. i posted for a while on the previous mommd dicussion board and i was so excited to find it. i had applied to CSU Hayward and had planned to begin taking my prereq to begin this journey, but once the time to actually go came, i just couldn't seem to figure out how to make it happen without taking away too much from my job, which is already done part time in the office and part time at home, and then my fiance, while supportive, has shown that he is simply not prepared to watch the baby even more than he already does (he watches him during the day). so with the class falling in the middle of the day, i just couldn't take it and i have put the whole thing off indefinitely because it seems that reality is way more powerful than my dreams. i try not to think about it too much and figure that things may change after a couple of years, once he is in school and financial concerns aren't so pressing...and then again i think that maybe i'll just go get an MBA and dive fully into this business with my father, who has been so kind since i've had the baby, letting my schedule be super flexible. if anyone remembers me from the other board, then u know i tend to ramble on so i'll stop soon...i'm gonna keep hanging around these boards though, i think everone here is sooo amazing and maybe one day...