 Hi my name is Kate Donahue and welcome to the University of Maryland internal medicine and pediatrics. We're thrilled that you're considering our residency program. At University of Maryland we're most proud of our people. Our residents are a group of fun caring kind and diverse people and we have a great group of faculty who are really dedicated to their education and their professional success. At the University of Maryland Medical Center as well as our children's hospital we provide primary care and tertiary care for some of Maryland's most underserved citizens. Our residents learn how to provide cutting-edge medical care in a rigorous clinical training environment but are also able to engage with residents at the community level. Our faculty support them all the way through their journey and our residents graduate from our program with all of the tools that they need for success. We recognize that your career starts the moment you walk through our doors so we begin your mentorship on day one. We have a very intensive mentoring program with our residents paired one-on-one with MedPeds faculty for all four years. We also set you up with special interest mentors who will help you with research and career development. Due to our intensive mentoring program our graduates come out of our program with the tools and the connections that they need to become leaders in their field. Our residents have had immense success in primary care academic hospitalist medicine as well as having an excellent fellowship match. We're thrilled that you're considering spending the first four years after medical school with us. We invite you to look at our website for some of our innovative curricular changes and if you have any questions please feel free to contact myself any of the faculty or any of the residents. Our combination of excellent clinical training close mentorship and a wonderful group of residents makes University of Maryland a fantastic place to do your training. Hi I'm Dr. Nitty Goyle our program prides itself on helping our residents to achieve their life and career goals no matter what those are. We encourage our residents to participate in hospital committees quality improvement initiatives national committees research projects and advocacy work whatever suits their life and career interests. We hope that in doing so we help for our residents to achieve all of their goals and to be the very best practicing med-peeds physicians that they can be. Our program is a rigorous one with our trainees challenge to take care of sick patients across multiple different environments from caring for sick neonates in our 52 bed NICU to the sickest of the sick patients in our quaternary care medical intensive care unit our residents learn evidence-based care from day one. Trainees also rotate through Mercy Medical Center which is our affiliate community hospital as well as caring for veterans at the VA hospital which is located just adjacent to the medical center. In addition our med-peeds residents start going to medicine and pediatrics clinics at university from day one and then add a community-based med-peeds clinic in their second year which they then continue to attend throughout their training. We hope that from exposing our trainees to clinical care across all of these different environments we provide them a comprehensive and rigorous training in the practice of internal medicine and pediatrics. Of the many wonderful things about our program by far the best among them is the people. We pride ourselves in the diversity and backgrounds of the people within our program and the perspectives that they bring. We have been on a journey to acknowledge the biases and social injustices that have plagued the practice of medicine for centuries. We make available to all of our faculty and trainees unconscious bias training as put together by the AAMC and our institution is on a just culture journey to ensure that all of our residents students faculty and staff feel safe in speaking up. We believe not just in speaking up but in speaking out so that we create a better learning and care environment for our patients staff and each other. Hi my name is Angie Molina. I'm going to combine internal medicine and pediatrics resident here at University of Maryland. I'm very excited that you're considering joining our med peace family here. Starting in a new phase in your life in a new city is always very intimidating, always very scary. I've been there so I get it. I'm from Miami, Florida originally and it was also very intimidating for me to move completely to a new city and start all over. But med peace really made it very easy and the transition was very smooth. Being in a residency program where we have four residents a year so total of 16 residents creates a very intimate and personal feel but also we have the luxury of talking to both the combined residency programs of internal medicine and pediatrics. So I never really felt alone. I always had the ability to hang out with both my categorical friends and colleagues as well as the med peace residents. We have multiple socials throughout the year so we have our craft feast, we have our holiday parties all three of them so internal medicine, pediatrics and med peace. We also have random socials throughout the year as well that we always get together. Unofficially we also hang out quite frequently. There are festivals throughout the summer. There's we go hiking, we go to wineries so it's always a good time and there's always something to do whether it's within our med peace family or outside of that with our categorical residents. We also have a very strong support and showing of our faculty and staff. They're always reaching out to make sure that we're doing well and are always checking in. So as you can tell med peace is a very unique and very strong identity here at University of Maryland but also very integrated into both categorical programs both internal medicine and pediatrics. We're also very well respected which is very nice. So I'm very excited for you all to experience what I've experienced here and share that with you all so welcome and I hope to work with you all one day.