MD/PhD Candidate #DoubleDocs @WayneMedicine | Drugs, trauma & ethics | Harm reduction & policy @AMAmedstudents | Cats | #WomeninSTEM | Views my own | She/her
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Check out our new paper about developing & implementing a brief medical school curriculum on opioid overdose prevention & response.
@JessLynnMoreno developed this fantastic training, which provides general info we believe all med students should have.
tandfonline.com/eprint/5KJ5E…
After 9 years at @waynemedicine in Detroit I am almost at the end of my MD/PhD journey & ready to begin the next stage of my training! #Match2025
I’m very excited to have matched into the psychiatry residency research program at @UWPsychiatry!
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After almost a decade in medical school, I am almost done & I really am going to get to be a psychiatrist! #Match2025
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I’m recruiting graduate students in the Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience area @WSUPsychology! Please apply to our amazing program and come help me build the lab. We can go for runs together!
Character limits prevented me including hobbies but tbh, I just wanted to introduce my cats, who are responsible any of my potential successes to date!
Our current feline supervisors are Sophia, Emma, & Bella. They love the limelight & Emma even has her own following on TikTok!
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Hello #MedTwitter 👋 I'm Tabitha!
After many years as an MD/PhD student, I'm excited to apply to #psychiatry this #Match2025!
Interests include substance use, stress, TMS, harm reduction, & bioethics. I’m also passionate about #Advocacy & #MedEd
Looking forward to connecting!
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🧠 I AM HIRING! 🧠 Announcing a posting for a Research Assistant in my new lab @waynestate.
Let's launch a new lab together and conduct pioneering biomarkers and intervention work with and for trauma-exposed youth!
More information/apply here: waynetalent.csod.com/ux/ats/…
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Does anyone have lab policy for independent projects for undergraduates/volunteer RAs that they can share? I am trying to form a well-articulated policy for my lab and would love something to build off of.
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Now, the new 2024 CDC guidelines advise clinicians to counsel patients on pain management during IUD insertions. It's rewarding to have played a part in this progress!
Grateful to see the recognition this issue deserves and excited to continue advocating for women's health!
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Folks who have completed or are currently doing their PhD:
If you were to have received a small welcome packet at your desk on Day 1 of your PhD, what would you want it to include? Some ideas: Post-its, a fun pen, highlighters, stapler, candy. What else?
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Reposting since my institution suggests "For much more clarity it would be best to contact a Professional Tax Preparer, Accountant, or the Internal Revenue Service". 😑 How are other #postdocs reporting F32 income on their taxes?
Help! Are NRSA postdoc awardees subject to self employment tax? Or are we exempt from FICA? How is everyone reporting this on taxes? 🤔🤷🏻♀️❓⁉️ #NIH #NRSA #taxes #FICA #fellowship
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After seeing comments from a physician (who clearly lacks empathy) regarding the tragic loss of a resident who took their own life, I’m here to remind our profession that we absolutely do not and should not continue to pass down the emotional trauma we experienced (1/6) – at Memphis, TN
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CW: suicide
Match day is on Friday. Every year I remember a classmate who died soon after not matching.
Your life is worth so much more than medicine.
Please: reach out to your colleagues. Check on them frequently.
Medicine is not your life.
Mentors, check in w mentees.
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When you’re a trainee on long calls—sleep deprived, rushing around, exhausted—patients may become the enemy... Each patient need representing a barrier to sleep and health.
This isn’t a model that builds empathy. It smashes it to the ground.
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I know that there are a number of resources for F31 submissions, but does anyone know of similar resources for K mechanisms? Examples, advice, etc. thank you!!
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I grow tired of hearing about “grit” and “resilience.” Terms that have been co-opted by institutions looking to transform systemic failures into individual problems.
First-generation medical students experience disproportionate adversity and inadequate institutional support within medical education, forcing over-reliance on grit and resilience as survival strategies. ja.ma/4akzCJG @catiehavemann
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One of you brilliant people recently had a study about the ineffectiveness of mandatory counseling for MOUD, I remember the limitation being that the counseling as-is is inherently not-evidence based.
Anyone remember? NEED IT.
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Folks, please remember that your students and trainees are whole entire people dealing with whole entire problems that are on par with or exceeding the ones we as faculty and supervisors are dealing with ourselves
This is great advice!
I've found when I schedule rest days in my calendar it can reduce the guilt of not working b/c I'm following my plan for the week. One of the best things I did for my mental health during grad school was set aside 1 day a week as a rest day, every week.