 Hello, my name is Zachary Rogers. I'm one of the fourth year emergency medicine internal medicine residents here at University, Maryland. I chose to train at the University of Maryland because I knew my passion was critical care medicine and I want a program that would expose me to the broad field of critical care medicine as well as allow me to be directly involved in the patient care as a resident. I first became interested in the University of Maryland through the podcasts and lectures of some of our amazing emergency medicine attendings and I rotated here as a fourth-year away student and I absolutely love the experience. There are very few emergency medicine internal medicine training programs that can offer the amount of medical complex patients that we'll be seeing throughout our training here. We have the shock trauma center when the nation's premier trauma centers next door and we are one of the largest transplant centers in the US. So that means that you will be constantly exposed to extremely medically complex patients both in the emergency department and on the medicine floors. It really is an amazing place to train and prepare you for any field of medicine you choose after your residency. My name is Samantha Yarmus. I'm a third-year resident in emergency and internal medicine at the University of Maryland. I chose to come here because of the focus on both comprehensive emergency and internal medicine that's available here. I feel that we have a very sick patient population that teaches me a lot about becoming a doctor. I also rotated here as a medical student and I really fell in love with the program with the people here. We have incredible faculty who are world-renowned in their fields and who are incredible teachers on shift and in conference every week. I knew that I wanted to focus on a career in medical education and I felt that coming here provided me with incredible role models to teach me how to become the kind of teacher I want to be. Best of luck with applications and with interview season this year and I hope to meet some of you via Zoom and in person next spring. Hi, I'm Kami Hu. I am the program director for the combined emergency medicine and internal medicine residency and the co-director for the combined emergency medicine, internal medicine, and critical care medicine program here at the University of Maryland. Our mission is to train physicians who are capable of taking care of acute and chronic illnesses in a variety of settings. Physicians who are educators who give back to the medical community and who practice with empathy and humanism to improve patient outcomes. Our grads go on to do great things in various settings and specialties including infectious disease, global health, geriatrics, cardiology, hospitalist medicine, and of course critical care. They practice well and thrive in a variety of settings, some of whom have gone on to run their own emergency departments and EDICUs. Our residents benefit from remarkable training here at the University of Maryland. Our categorical EM and IM programs are strong and well respected and anybody who is interested in our EM-IM program should go on to look at the information that's provided by both of those programs separately. What we are looking for are people who are hardworking, who give back to their personal communities, whether inside or outside of the medical field, and who are interested in connecting with our patients on a deeper level to provide good care. Some of our patients are the sickest, the poorest, and the most disenfranchised and we really believe that our residents and doctors here do their best to help them improve. If you think that's you, we welcome your application. We look forward to meeting you and we wish you luck on the rest of your interview trail.