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Grateful for a Unique & Valuable Community Base Education

By Natasha McGlaun

Thanks WCMS for Giving Us a Chance and a Home

Graduation is somehow quickly approaching already and as such so is my transition from MS4 to MD. Yesterday, I was filling out our graduation survey, giving the name I want on the graduation program and making my class nominations for the clinical faculty, mentors, and classmates who have had the biggest impact on me during my medical education. It took me a long time to fill that survey out because it was so hard to narrow it down to just one name for each category. There are so many fantastic physicians, educators, and colleagues who I’ve had the opportunity to learn from and who have helped me get to the medical school finish line.

At UNR, where we pride ourselves on being a community medical school, we rely so much on private and community physicians and educators to help us come out as well-trained, fully functioning residents and, boy, do y’all really come through for us in a big way. We get amazing training here. Swapping stories with the medical students I’ve had the opportunity to meet nationally through the AMA and while out on my away rotation, it’s become increasingly apparent to me how lucky we are in terms of how well-rounded and robust our curriculum is as well as the responsibilities we’re allowed and how much we really get to do in clinicals. And all of that is thanks to you.

the infamous 8

Unfortunately, there isn’t a Reno OB/GYN residency so I’m looking at moving this summer, and it’s starting to hit harder each day how much I’m going to miss our wonderful medical community and the amazing mentors and friends I’ve met along the way. There’s something really special and unique about our small town feel where everybody seems to know everybody and so many of our attendings went through their training right here in the same place we are now. So, another big thank you to all of you in WCMS for giving us medical students a chance and a home.

Of course, I’m also filled with excitement to see all of my classmates hard work pay off and to find out where they match for residency in just two short months! Best of luck to us all! In honor of my lovely colleagues, here’s measly MS1 going on 2 me with my first medical friends (the infamous group 8):