Stephen Ellwood, MD
Resident in Anesthesiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
PGY-2
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| Stephen Ellwood, MD and Yuanting Zha, MD at the Global Health Symposium. |
As a hard-working anesthesiology resident, it is not hard to
sometimes lose sight of your long-term career aspirations. For myself, I found it refreshing to be able
to attend the Partner’s GME Global Health Symposium as it provoked me to once
again to think about my future goals on how I might impact the global health
community. Global health is a vast and challenging field that can be extremely
difficult to navigate. However, I am fortunate enough to be completing my
residency training underneath the network of Partner’s Healthcare where I have
access to many leading experts in this field. I now realize how important it is
to seek mentorship, and I know that I am in need of much guidance as a young
physician still in training. I feel
blessed to have had this opportunity to network with both the leading experts
in the field of global health and with my fellow passionate GME trainees. The
global health experts that spoke today left me with these two powerful
thoughts. One, I should always strive to be an active listener and observer,
especially when working in a foreign healthcare system in another country that
may have very different cultural expectations and political barriers as
compared to the U.S. healthcare system.
Two, global health work requires an enormous amount of humility, no
matter who you are. I am fortunate to
have had this experience, as it reinvigorated me to once again focus on
building a path towards, one day, being a part of capacity building through
medical education. I hope to be able to find mentors and colleagues that I can
call upon for the rest of my life.
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