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🗣CALLING ALL FOURTH YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS!!!🗣 ISSA MOCK INTERVIEW GIVEAWAY! The 16 of us have teamed up to provide mock video-interviews for as many medical students as we can. ✨40 lucky winners✨ will receive a virtual mock video interview with one of the participating docs. Eligibility: Must be a fourth year medical student applying in the 2021 ERAS application cycle. THREE steps to enter: ✅ Follow all 16 participating docs, tagged below. ✅ Comment below stating your intent to participate. ✅ Tag TWO other medical students in the comment. For additional entries, you can: 1) share this post on your IG stories or Instagram page, which will count as one additional entry. 2) comment on the different participating doctors pages for an additional entry EACH, but must tag two NEW medical students. Giveaway ends Wed Sept 1st at 11:59 pm EST, winners will be announced on Friday, September 3rd. @iamdr.ross @dr_mazi @oyetewa @lawrencebrownmd @drgeraldonuoha @drkarenk @dr.umoren @brownskinderm @dr.dermatic @jwstewart_md @ososee @skinfitnessderm @onlyindoctorambersworld @withlove_drchimmy @earlcampbellmd @doctor.share #residency #ERAS #virtualinterviewseason #interviewseason #medicalschool #melanininmedicine #blackdoctorsmatter #blacklivesmatter #giveaway #reseaudocteur #watchtheyard #howardalumni

Back on the gram, did you miss me??? Happy (Belated) New Month! This marks 1 month down of my LAST YEAR OF MEDICAL TRAINING EVER!!!!!!! From accepting the role of Chief resident along with my love @han.a.song, to getting through 3 of my 4 CORE exams, to welcoming in a new class of @harvardderm dermies, to starting the process to apply for my first big girl job, the end of PGY3 year and the start of PGY4 year has gone off with a bang. Race to the finish line starts NOW though, T-11 months until I graduate from Dermatology residency by God’s grace! ***Underrepresented minority medical students interested in dermatology (ESPECIALLY M4s applying this cycle), feel free to DM me so we can set up a call if you need help/advice. And look out for more information coming really soon regarding my annual mock interviews giveaway.*** #residency #finishline #medstudents #medicalstudent #reseaudocteur #melaninpoppin #melanininmedicine #doctor #nigeriansinmedicine #minoritiesinmedicine #medical

Taking a social media break to focus on studying… de-stressing… resting and the like. Honestly I love IG, but it’s a huge time-suck (God’s still working on my self discipline loll). Main reason that I’m posting this is for the **medical students** that are reaching out to me… unfortunately I don’t have the bandwidth to take new calls/ new mentees for now, but PLEASE reach back out in August! If you already reached out to me and I didn’t respond, I might have missed it, and I’ll try my best to get back to everyone! Thanks in advance for understanding, and know that I’m alwayssssss rooting for you! Will be back in August with new blog posts, might even dip my toes in the Reel business (don’t worry… no dancing or finger pointing from me 👀 haha no shaddeeeee though!). Love ya’ll!

My 30th birthday month (over now 😂😭) owes me nothing, thanks to #COVIDvaccines (yes EVERYONE was vaccinated). I had the most wonderful of birthdays 🥳 Thanks to everyone that sent well wishes, gifts, sweets (I was gifted ungodly amounts of sweets lol), prayers, all of it. I love my people ! #SWIPE for the turn up 😂 Here’s to the next decade, filled with laughter, adventure, peace, growth and overall enjoymentttttttt 🥂 #90sParty #PhotoDump #90sBaby

Last day of the most wonderful month of the year. I’m so blessed to be surrounded by love. #SWIPE to the end for a praise break 😂😂😩😩😭😭🙌🏾🙌🏾 #ArubaPhotodump #Ilovemylife

✨ Chapter 30 ✨ All Glory to God for another year of life and love! Guess I’m officially grown now, huh? #ThisIs30 📸: @ososee (always) #HappyBirthdaytoMe #DirtyThirty #TalkThirtytoMe #KissingMyTwentiesGoodbye #GrownAF #Cheersto30 #90sBaby

Last day in my 20s! Are we sick of my vacation photos yet? Hahhaaa (sorry, not sorryyyyy). Anyway, if you’re interested or have the time, swipe for 30 things I have learned over the years, and read below for the few I want to expound on. Warning... it’s long lol 😆 ✨Your faith/belief works in whatever you put it in (You choose... put your faith in God or in your negative circumstances, but whatever you focus on or believe in will become bigger in your life) ✨Everyone has their "one person" that they will tell your business to, even if they promise not to tell anyone. So don't tell anyone things that you really don't want to get out. ✨Taking a day in seven for guilt-free no study/no work/no stress has been a huge tool for me in the fight against anxiety/sadness/burnout. ✨Automate all your finances ('The Automatic Millionaire' was a life-changing book for me). My tithes, savings, investments in stock market/bitcoin, IRA contributions, and bills are all paid before I see a dollar in my checking account. So even if I spend every dollar I see, I’m already set. ✨Credit card debt/interest is NOT to be played with. [Learned a LOT about credit in my adulthood. Was in 30k credit debt after graduating med school, paid it off in two years after my second year of residency with the tools I learned from The Automatic Millionaire]. I charge everything to my credit card for the cashback benefits, but I treat it like debit in the sense that I only spend what I can pay back at that moment. So... credit cards went from being a thorn in me side to becoming a source of revenue for me. ✨Forgiveness is for me, not the person who hurt me, or even the person who is currently wronging me (still. actively. working. on. this.) ✨In public/on social media, be transparent without being too vulnerable. I can be honest about the things I decide to share... but I don't have to share information that gives people power to hurt me or shame me. ✨It is ok to speak positively about myself, to promote myself and my art, and to be publicly proud of myself. This doesn't make me conceited. ✨Say NO without apology or shame. Say NO without apology or shame. Say NO without apology or shame.

Thankful for friendship… had a wonderful start to my birthday season with these lovely ladies. 6 black lady-docs in Aruba… no drama, just vibes. My soul was/is happy. Looking forward to investing in friendships with people that make me feel good about myself, that encourage me to grow, that are honest with me even when it’s awkward, and that lead me to God. #roadto30 #friendship #love #melanininmedicine #blackdoctors #arubalife

Happy Monday all! This advice post is all about getting the highest possible grade on each of your clinical rotations. Even if you go to a medical school that stopped giving grades during the pandemic, you still get written evaluations that are reviewed by residency programs (they show up on your Dean’s letter/MSPE!!!). So this is some important stuff, and MUCH more important than your pre-clinical grades by far. I wrote about the following: 🔑Five crucial things to find out at the beginning of each rotation 🔑Six things you should never (ever) do 🔑How to become the expert on each of your patients (how to pre-round) 🔑How to present on rounds 🔑How and when to ask for feedback And a bunch of other stuff. If you’ve been reading my stuff for awhile, a lot of this will sound familiar. That’s cause I’m just honestly telling you the same old tried and true tips that WORK. LINK IN BIO, CLICK ON ADVICE TAB! Part two on mindset, and part three on away rotations will also drop this week (tryna get them all out before my birthday as a gift to you, and also a shameless plug for my birthday coming up MAY 6 mmmkkkayyyyy loveee youuuu byeeeeeee) LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE!!!! #notanotherdoctorblog #medicalstudent #residency #advice #clinicalrotations #covid19 #medicalschool

The beach is def my happy place. 😊 Archived the last week of poems, so swipe to see the following: Day 24 - On the Sanctuary Day 25 - On Doubts Day 26 - On Finding God Day 27 - On Finding Happiness Day 28 - On Hopeful Romantics Day 29 - On His Love Day 30 - On Black Culture (in the IGTV video on my last post) 💕 📸: @ososee #aPoemADay #30daysofpoetry #PoetMD #iWrite #nationalpoetrymonth #spokenword #blackpoets #blackcottonclub #poetlife #heARTwork #poetsofinsta #poetsofinstagram #covid19 #covidbirthdays

#Day30- On Black Culture “Black Culture cannot be defined, it defines people and societies and ways of being. Its that inner circle everybody hates on but secretly wants to be in...” 😉😌✊🏾 That’s a wrap on #30DaysofPoetry for #NationalPoetryMonth !!! Thanks for all the love and support!!! Go back through the older poems and share if you feel led! Please don’t judge the frizzy hair or bathing suit top you can see through my shirt on this video 😩😂. It’s actually pretty hard making it through one of these videos from start to finish without issues so when I watched it back I was like .... welppp this will have to do. Hahaha turning 30 in 6 days, walking into my shameless phase of life hahaha LOVE YA’LL!!!! #aPoemADay #30daysofpoetry #PoetMD #iWrite #nationalpoetrymonth #spokenword #blackpoets #blackcottonclub #poetlife #heARTwork #poetsofinsta #poetsofinstagram #happy #love #Blackculture #covid19