 I'm Megan Christen, one of the endocrinology fellows here at University of Maryland in the Department for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition. What does it like to be a fellow here? Well, I'll tell you, it's both challenging and rewarding. I think that in general, the strength of a clinical program really stems from the patient population that you see. And here at University of Maryland, especially with the setting of trauma, the patient pathology is outstanding. I can tell you, the first week of my fellowship here, we had a patient who had suffered a trained crush injury and developed panhypopituatrism and was one of the most complicated patients I've had to manage. And that was even in the first week, and it's even progressed from there. So I feel very confident moving forward that I will have seen everything that I need to see to handle whatever and whomever walks in the door in my future practice. What is my favorite part of being a fellow here? Well, I think there's a combination of a couple things that really make this program unique and make it wonderful. And so I'll highlight my favorite two things about this program. One is the faculty mentorship here. I think that I came in with a couple ideas of things I wanted to work on, and those have evolved over time here. But I was not ever told to join a faculty mentor program where we have faculty that are interested in XYZ, and that's your list that you can choose from. But I've really been supported and encouraged to think about what I'm passionate about and what I want to do in my future career, and then have been supported here by the faculty to really develop that and nourish, to grow that as I move forward in my career. The second thing that I love about the program here is the commitment, the absolute commitment from the top down to the whole care of a patient, to meeting them where they're at. And I feel like I will be leaving this program with a whole arsenal of tools to help address social determinants of health, not only to recognize them, recognize the experience that my patient is having outside of the clinic, outside of the hospital, but also in their daily life and see what challenges they have in obtaining their medications and affording to pay for food, let alone anything else. And that, again, is truly a commitment from the entire department. Not only from different projects that we complete as fellows, but also in the work that we do inside the hospital, coordinating with community case workers, coordinating with social workers, coordinating with diabetes educators, all of which are present on site and available to help for all of the patients that we serve. And I think one of the other strengths of the program is that we rotate at multiple sites. Working at the downtown campus gives you the very busy academic center, very challenging pathologies. We also work at the Veterans Affairs Hospital here in downtown Baltimore, where you see the unique patient population that is the veterans, the elderly individuals who have served the country, and what better opportunity to give back to them as well as our community hospital that we work at as well, which has its own challenges and different patient population that we serve. So having that variety of clinical practices also lends to the strength of the program, I believe. And all of those locations are in the heart of West Baltimore. Again, just another way to demonstrate that this program is truly committed to giving back to the patient population and the community that it serves. I'm Rana Malik. I'm the program director for the Endocrinology and Diabetes Fellowship at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. As a program director, I'm often asked, what makes this program special? And three things come to mind. One is the outstanding clinical experience that the fellows receive. The second is excellence in medical education. And the third is a commitment and service to our location here in Baltimore City. With regards to clinical experience, our fellows are fortunate to train in three different hospital systems. The University of Maryland Medical Center, Downtown Campus, Midtown Campus, and the Baltimore VA Medical Center. Our fellows participate in a fast-paced, high-acuity inpatient consult service where they see not only the rarest of endocrine disorders, but also extreme manifestations of common endocrine and diabetes conditions. In addition to their inpatient work, our fellows have continuity clinics at two different sites, which gives them a great diversity in the patients that they care for. On top of that, we offer specialty clinics like pituitary, bone, and obesity, and fellows get to work with experts in those fields. We also give our fellows multiple opportunities to practice fine needle aspiration of the thyroid with fellows doing at minimum 50 biopsies by the end of their fellowship. Fellows have a hands-on experience in diabetes technology with insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors and are well suited to use these technologies in their future practice. In addition to their clinical experience, we are committed to giving our fellows an outstanding educational environment. Our program leadership is committed to innovations in endocrinology education, and we offer a formal didactic curriculum. In addition to that, our fellows get one-on-one training with 11 highly gifted and highly regarded clinician educators. And finally, we want our fellows to be gifted educators themselves, and so we train them to teach medical students, residents, and their colleagues. When I think about what gives identity to our fellowship program, it is our commitment to the city of Baltimore. As the only fellowship program located in West Baltimore, we view our fellowship as being in community with and in service to the city. We train our fellows on the social determinants of health and the role they have on the health disparities that we see in diabetes here in the state of Maryland and nationally. That commitment to our city provides a sense of teamwork, and it's manifested in the camaraderie between fellows and faculty members. In fact, we view our fellows as our future colleagues, and we maintain lifelong relationships with them over the course of their careers. Hi, I'm Kashiath Munir. I'm the Vice Chief for the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. I'm also the Medical Director for the Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology at the University of Maryland. Our center is a really high-paced, high-output center where we see over 20,000 patient visits per year. And we're really excited because your training program involves the center, but also involves other practices like the Baltimore VA, and also we have a very large transplant program as well as one of the world's best-known trauma centers. And we think with this experience, you actually get to see a lot of different facets of endocrinology that you wouldn't necessarily see at other places. None of these things may be unique, an inner city campus, a trauma center, a transplant program, a VA, but all of these put together, I think, is very hard to find. And I think that really adds to the diversity of training that makes it such that you'll be ready to face anything once you experience the real world. I think we also have a very dedicated faculty, and we also really love to teach, and all of our faculty are very eager. And when we have our teaching awards every year, you'll see that most of the faculty get votes because everybody's really dedicated. And so I think as part of your experience, you will really see that there's a dedicated faculty, a wide diversity of patients that it's hard to find anywhere else, and we really look forward to seeing you on your interview trail.