Medical School: Georgetown
Residency: Georgetown
Why Georgetown: Small program, large footprint. With so few fellows, we get close mentoring (everyone knows you!), plenty of procedures, and excellent clinical experience. But we are also part of a large department with a very large presence at Georgetown: we have a busy, high acuity ICU; attendings with the full array of subspecialty niches; and great interdisciplinary relationships with other departments. We also “own” the full spectrum of pulmonary: we do our own right heart catheterizations for pulmonary hypertension, our own tracheostomies, almost all of the early lung cancer evaluations (our robot bronch can biopsy very peripheral nodules!), are usually first call for chest tubes. We truly get the best of both worlds.
Favorite thing in DC: It’s just such a livable city. Great restaurants but also great neighborhoods and parks to walk around in and explore. Everything you need, but not too big. (I’m biased since I grew up here, but I truly think that it’s the best city to live and train in.)