Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School
duct," says Dr. Patti, a gradu-
administered by Rutgers University and Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School. After discovering emergency
medicine in a fourth-year elective, she matched with the
medical school's Emergency Medicine Residency, and she
couldn't be happier with the specialty or the program.
versity Hospital. A Level 1 Trauma Center, the Emer-
gency Department treats approximately 73,000
adult patients a year and is adjacent to the Pediatric
Emergency Department. Residents work with emergency
medicine faculty and nurses as well as a wide range of
other specialists, ultrasound fellows, and emergency med-
ical technicians.
share ideas. Everything is a group effort." At the same
time, it's intense, procedure-heavy, and high volume, so
time management is critical: "You need to be aware not
only of what you're doing but what patient emergencies
are about to come through the door."
Residency, University of
Wisconsin School of Medicine
and Public Health, Madison
soul-searching process," says
50 years of your life." As an undergraduate, he had done
liver cancer research; subsequently, he pursued melanoma
research in the medical school's MS in Clinical and
Translational Science program, supported by a grant
from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Radiation
oncology seemed like a natural progression to a career
combining patient care and research.
immediately learned that "you have to give cancer
patients 120 percent, every day," to help them cope with
complex issues--medical, social, psychological. On his
first assignment, on the lymphoma floor, he realized: "In
the eyes of patients and families, I was the face of the
team for questions, counseling, news--good or bad." At
year's end, Dr. Rosenberg was honored to receive the pro-
gram's Dr. Suzanne Munson Intern of the Year Award.
School of Medicine
Siddique as a clinical specialty
and offers the satisfaction of preventing diseases such as
colon cancer. In addition, gastroenterology has significant
potential to have an impact on public health, and it is an
excellent means of studying the efficiencies of the health
care system.
rounds and monitoring procedures. During medical
school, Dr. Siddique was the national policy chair for the
American Medical Student Association and ran a health
policy elective. She serves on the committees on health
policy, quality improvement, and high-value care. In ad-
dition, she is working with Medicare on a study of fac-
tors that affect hospital readmissions.
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Sterling discovered urology
by an older student. "Nothing could
The specialty met his career criteria: he could perform
surgery but would also have a close relationship with his
patients. He finds that urology is a perfect fit for his
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