{"id":4890,"date":"2015-04-01T14:23:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T18:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=4890"},"modified":"2015-04-03T09:39:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T13:39:43","slug":"match-day-2015-mildred-lopez-pineiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2015\/match-day-2015-mildred-lopez-pineiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Day 2015: Mildred Lopez Pineiro"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n<\/iframe><\/span><\/body><\/html><\/p>\nWhen talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2015\/exciting-match-day-for-geisel-medical-students\/\" target=\"_blank\">Class of 2015\u2019s impending Match Day<\/a>, fourth-year Geisel medical student Mildred Lopez Pineiro expressed how she and her fellow classmates were more than ready to hear where they would begin their residency training. Often both a stressful and exciting day for medical students, Mildred noted that the close-knit nature of Geisel\u2019s community\u00a0made the day less nerve-wracking.<\/p>\n\u201cI think we have a lot of support here at Dartmouth because it is a small community and because people actually care what\u2019s happening with each student\u2026I feel like we all support each other and we know we\u2019re all going through this. I\u2019m hoping it\u2019s gonna be a happy day and I\u2019m gonna get to celebrate with my family and friends and everyone will get a choice that they really like.\u201d<\/p>\nMildred attended the University of Puerto Rico for her undergraduate degree, a school with a much larger student body, and credits Geisel\u2019s small class-size and the opportunity to work closely with faculty to tailor her education to her interests as one of the reasons she chose to come to here.<\/p>\n\u201cI feel like it\u2019s a very individualized experience and you get good advising,\u201d says Mildred. \u201cThere are people who are very open to give you advice about anything and they care what your interests are, and target whatever opportunities they can find for your interests, which is something that I really like. I\u2019m very interested in diversity issues\u2026.and here at Dartmouth there\u2019s not as much of a Latino-American population, they made sure that I found the opportunities to have a diverse experience and to have exposure to that population.\u201d<\/p>\nOn Match Day, Mildred was delighted to learn that she was going to be spending a preliminary year in medicine at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina and would then be moving on to her residency in dermatology at the University of Texas Medical Center in Houston\u2014a program that will continue to expose her to a diverse patient population. The move is an especially happy one for Mildred because her significant other also lives in Houston.<\/p>\n\u201cI was looking for a program that was big and that offered a variety of pathology and diverse diagnosis, and also where the resident had more ownership over their own patients and over making decisions over their patients. I wanted to be in a program that\u2019s independent, that allows me to formulate my own thoughts when I\u2019m going through diagnostics and therapeutics, and where I could actually see all the different pathology that I\u2019m gonna encounter once I\u2019m in the real world and just practice it on my own.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fourth-year medical student Mildred Lopez Pineiro was anxious for the arrival of Match Day and to learn where she\u2019d start her residency training, but the support of Geisel\u2019s close-knit community helped to make the day less-nerve wracking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,6,1,7],"tags":[148,35,534,103,39],"class_list":["post-4890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-multimedia","category-news","category-video","tag-match-day","tag-medical-education","tag-mildred-lopez-pineiro","tag-residency","tag-students","post_format-post-format-video","author-5"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/mildred.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-1gS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4890"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4908,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions\/4908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}