I thought maybe my 14-month old son woke up on the wrong side of the crib from his afternoon nap. He wasn't acting like himself. He had ...

While sitting at the dinner table, someone brought up maggots (I know! – but such is life with two boys of a certain age; disgusting subject...

Do you have a favorite season? Does your favorite have anything to do with work/school? Winter for Pediatricians is like tax season for acc...

In a highly technical method of randomization (comments printed, cut into slips, and picked blindly from a bowl), ten readers of Mothers in ...

I have a confession to make - but first, a little story. Last Friday my husband and I got to do one of our favorite things: walk our son to...

Sorry, I need to vent: A resident I know recently came back from maternity leave with her second child and happened to mention to another re...

Welcome to our 5th (!) Topic Day at Mothers in Medicine: Match Day. Today, we'll be featuring posts about our experiences with the big d...

My match day was March 17, 2005. Our match day was done in a "let all hell break loose" kind of fashion. The envelopes were at d...

“Should I stay or should I go now?” The Clash I don’t think Mick Jones or Joe Strummer knew anything about the NRMP or National Resident...

Not sure why but I can hardly separate out in my mind my own match day (in the 1990's) and my husband's a few years later. Earlier t...

I debated with myself for a long while about whether I wanted to post my recollections of matching. I've realized while looking back my...

The months that led up to Match Day were pretty stressful for me. I was in that med school relationship purgatory where my boyfriend (it mak...

Match Day. It was a day that I viewed with trepidation (Will I go where I want to go?), anticipation (Where will the next chapter of my life...

I have been through this before. My husband graduated from medical school four years ago and, like everyone else, went through the match. It...

Like Fizzy, I received a copy of the new book Match Day by Brian Eule to review. I had heard it followed three women from Match Day through...