 Hi, my name is Rachel Fanneroth. I'm currently a fourth-year resident here at the University of Maryland. I was a medical student here and then became a pathology resident. I was chief resident last year. I'm doing cytophilus here, so I've been here for a really long time and this department is so so special to me that I'm gonna have to try not to cry, I think, while talking about it. I had a baby four months ago and the residency program was just absolutely amazing and accommodating me, being there for me. I literally, we were joking about which resident was gonna deliver my baby for me, so that's how much I trust and love my co-residents. All the faculty are incredible. I think that Linda and Dr. Koka really emphasize the flexibility of our program and that's something that was important to me as well because I came into residency. I mean, I know about pathology but I didn't know what I wanted to do within pathology and they gave me, sorry, not a residency, a rotation at the medical examiner right off the bat and that helped me to decide that that was not what I wanted to do. And I was able to sort of squeeze my way into thoracic pathology, which is something that I'm gonna be doing a fellowship in as well. I was able to go to a national conference, my first year of residency. Overall, I just don't have enough good things to say about the program in terms of the education, the specimen volume and breadth. But most importantly, I think it's already been said that the best thing about this place is the people and I just really love them all so much. I'm Rima Koka, the pathology program director starting this August and I have served as associate program director for the last three years and I was pathology resident at University of Maryland prior to that. So I've been through the whole process here at Maryland and these people, this department is like family to me and I take great pride in this program and I'm so happy to be part of making it better and doing what I can for our residents here. And one of the things we've always taken pride in is the program's flexibility and how we cater to our residents' ambitions, their personal desires and goals and tailor the program to them. And that's something that I want to keep consistent going forward. But beyond that, since I've been a resident here, I have had a sense of where the holes are in some of our education and I've done my best to fill those holes. We've created a lot of new rotations, a lot of them hybrid rotations to enhance the educational opportunities here. And so really what sets us apart is our flexibility and our drive to change. But ultimately, we are very much like a family here. I love my colleagues, I love my residents and fellows and it is wonderful to come to work every day. Hi, my name's Linda. I'm one of the chief residents for the Department of Pathology Residency program and I guess piggybacking off of what Dr. Koka mentioned, really this program is such a warm and welcoming program. We have a lot of fun things that we all do together, happy hours, we really enjoy going out and exploring the city of Baltimore pre-COVID-19, hopefully post-COVID-19. But one thing I just really love about this program is just how friendly, how much of a community and a family this program is. But on top of that, academically, something really awesome about this program is we see such a wide variety of cases. We see complex ENT cases like laryngectomies, we see complex GI cases and the residents really get to carry a large amount of responsibility on that. We can take ownership of the cases and we can really kind of do what we want in the name of our education. But I also want to emphasize we're never alone. So you feel the ownership, you feel the responsibility, but the moment that you feel like you need help, there's no judgment, there's no, oh my God, you got such a wrong answer on that. There's just this great supportive environment that's throughout the whole program and I really, really value that. This is a fantastic place to grow into being a physician of your own, to jump into a fantastic fellowship program. So I think there's a lot to be said about, even though we're a medium-sized small program, there's a lot of opportunity here and, again, a lot of flexibility to kind of go into whatever you want to do. So hope you guys can come and see us sometime soon and we look forward to having you.