
From the earliest stages of our medical training, we encounter unimaginable experiences with our patients - inspiring, traumatic, joyful, and sometimes even humorous events. Too often, as physicians or doctors in training we talk about the suffering or recovery of patients, ignoring our own emotions after these events, letting them passively shape us until we dig ourselves into a bottomless abyss of burn out and resentment.
This is a book created by med students, for med students, doctors, pre-med students, and their loved ones to look backward, forward, and laterally on the wonderful world of medical school. This book offers a space to reflect on our emotions, process their meaning, and share them as tales of joy, sorrow, or humor, told from the perspective of medical students writing in a diary.
While the act of sharing emotion is itself therapeutic, reading these emotional challenges that we can all relate to is unifying and comforting, providing us with insight through the lessons conveyed in the light of a variety of feelings.
Let this book spark a powerful domino effect of change in medical education: in the way we teach physicians to create a safe space for inner reflection and expression of emotion to ultimately enhance physician wellness.
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EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

DANIEL B. AZZAM, MD MBA
University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine

AJAY NAIR SHARMA, MD MBA
University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
FACULTY ADVISOR

JOHANA SHAPIRO, PhD
Founder, Program in Medical Humanites and Arts
University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
CREATIVE WRITING EDITORIAL BOARD

PETER AZZAM, MD
UC Irvine Medical Center, Dept. of Family Medicine

SHANKAR IYER, MD
Brookwood Baptist Medical Center, Dept. of Radiology

CARINA MIRELES-ROMO, MD MPH
UC Irvine School of Medicine

KAOSOLUCHI ENENDU, MD MBA
UC Irvine School of Medicine




HAYOUNG YOUN
Temple University, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
HOWARD CHANG
John Hopkins University School of Medicine
MANALI SAPRE, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
SHONIT NAIR SHARMA
Carle Illinois College of Medicine

JACOB STULTZ
UC San Francisco School of Medicine

NIKHIL BELLAMKONDA, MD
UCLA, David Geffen School of Medicine
TECHNICAL SKILLS TEAM

JENNY TORRES
Director of Operations
USC Marshall School of Business

TIMOTHY VU, MD
Co-Director of Finance
UC Irvine School of Medicine

ELSA LI, MBA
Co-Director of Finance
UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business

WILLIAM POON, MBA
Director of Design
UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business




ALEX WANG
VIRALI SHAH
STACY HAPONYUK, MD
KRISTI CHIN
Director of Strategy
UC Irvine School of Medicine
Director of Social Media
Albany Medical College
Senior Soc. Media Strategist
UNM School of Medicine
Social Media Strategist
UC Irvine School of Bio Sci
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100% of all sales, sponsorship, and affiliate revenues will be directly donated to the DOAMS Scholarship Fund.
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