 My name is Mary Shory. I am a current PGY3 resident at University of Maryland. I went to medical school in Philadelphia, and when I was thinking about residency, I was particularly attracted to Baltimore because it has a really unique population of women that we serve and we have exposure to people from a wide breadth of communities that we can take care of. I have a particular interest in family planning and I was very attracted to the Ryan program at University of Maryland. Residents here really have the opportunity to become comfortable with advanced procedures in this area as well as complicated counseling and contraception management and that has been really important for me. Outside of family planning, we also have robust exposure to maternal fetal medicine, gynecology, and GYN oncology. At both of our clinical sites, we rotate at a tertiary care academic center where we get to see the most medically and complicated surgical patients, as well as a high volume community center where we get to see really the full breadth of what OBGYNs in a community can serve and can take care of. Outside of our clinical experiences, residents here also really have the opportunity to take control of their education. We have several residency resident committees. These are the resident education committee, the med student education committee, there's a social committee and wellness committee and these really let us take control of our educational experience and craft it into what we really feel we need to grow as physicians and as people. Each resident here is also expected to create their own residency research project and we have support from the department to guide this from beginning to end and to present and attend national conferences. Outside of our clinical experiences and our educational experiences, what attracted me here and what really keeps me going at the end of the day is the community of support among our residents and our department. I really feel that the residents here support each other and look out for each other as if we were a family and that culture extends through the whole department from attendings to nurses to support staff and that is really what keeps you feeling happy and whole at the end of a day and a week and a month and four years. So we look forward to introducing you to our department further and hopefully seeing you here sometime in the future.