Applicants galore!

IMH is hiring for 3 tenure track positions (so exciting) and will be bringing in candidates for the interview process. There are folks from various other disciplines and one candidate who graduated from our program. I'm brainstorming questions:

-What do you know now that you wish you had known at the beginning of your doctoral studies?

-How can faculty best help graduate students complete their dissertation writing?

Lately, i have been more and more interested in the history of science! I've put in a request for syllabi so as to begin my own studies on the topic. If you've got one, please send it on over! History of medicine is definitely going to be my major area so now the excitement begins!

1 term down, 1 to go

Whew! So happy to have completed the first term on a note of success, 4.0 success that is! Word. In the world of male supremacist ideologies women are not encouraged to share their successes so in an effort to honor a commitment to undermining male supremacy, I will say for the record: I worked my tail off this term!

Grades for PhD coursework are less important in terms of continued schooling but they are increasingly important for fellowship applications and other awards so here's to hard work. Though UTMB does not support the Latin Honors (4.0 = summa cum laude) we have a Phi Kappa Phi chapter that accepts the top 10% of graduate students, fingers crossed. Bragging will now cease.

Regularly feeling more confident that this is the right program for me. Particularly when taking such AMAZING courses! I am so excited. I've decided that History of Medicine and Health Care Ethics will be my major areas and Health Policy will be my minor area for coursework and quals. More wonderful courses on the way!

For those who have finished recently or are in the final stages, I am so proud of you. This work is not easy, less than 5% of the population gets a PhD. You deserve this.