Mark your calendars, #Match2025 #Physiatry friends! 🩺 This week is packed w/ PM&R events:

🌟 AAP Medical Student Council PM&R VSLO & aways panel: TONIGHT 8 PM EST

🌟 NYSPMR career fair: 3/27 6-8 PM EST

🌟 Pathways in PM&R panel: 3/27 8 PM EST

🌟 AMEC The Student National Medical Association (SNMA) PM&R session: 3/30 8 AM

🎧 Co-hosting Pocket Mentor with Colette Piasecki-Masters has been an absolute treat! One of my favorite questions was, “what’s your most and least favorite part of your job?” A simple question that always got unique answers. Highly recommend this creative, challenging, and fun opportunity!

📚 #Physiatry in Motion Winter Issue is out, read up!! 👇🏼 thank you to all our excellent authors, and especially to Raza Husain, DO, for his outstanding leadership AAP Resident Fellow Council PM&R 🙏

A wonderful opportunity for medical students - Apply today! 🎙️click the google form below for more details 👇🏼

To the < 0.1% Laotian applicants, this is for us. Grind hard, always help others, and leave a legacy. I’m forever grateful for those that wrote this narrative with me. History was made today as another community is represented in PM&R. I matched at Mayo Clinic FL 🙏🇱🇦 #Match2024

Feeling blessed! 🙏 Speechless. So excited for this next phase with the UTHealth Houston PM&R family!!! Forever grateful to everyone who's helped me get to this point. ❤️🥰❤️
CONGRATS to all #Match2024
TCOM

Congratulations all, can’t wait to meet you!! 🥳

Bag secured 💰🥺😍
Philadelphia for my TY year and heading down to VA back home for PM&R!

Cannot thank my my wife and parents, my mentors and friends who supported me on this journey!

I’m going to become a physiatrist!!!

#Match2024 Inside The Match AAPM&R News Assoc. of Academic Physiatrists (AAP)

It’s a great day to be a dawg UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine 💜 Thank you for this opportunity, and thank you to my family, friends, and mentors for everything 🫶🏽

Congratulations to the #Match2024 new doctors!! Just know that regardless of where you matched, you should be so proud of yourself. You’ve worked hard and sacrificed much to get here. So proud and excited for you all 🥳 #physiatry #MatchDay2024

Not every day I get to interview in-person! Got to meet Dr. Brandee Waite at the AAPM&R News conference to record this Assoc. of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) #PocketMentor episode about Physiatry, Sports Medicine, and Lifestyle Medicine. 🎧 Thank you for joining! Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2ht4tN…

From fitness instructor to physiatrist, Dr. Brandee Waite has followed her passions while seizing opportunities. Learn about her path to PM&R, her job duties as a sports & lifestyle physiatrist, & advice for students pursuing competitive career paths: on.soundcloud.com/NLkGg

Attention medical students still at #Physiatry24 ! Come to the final event of the conference and learn about mentorship and networking within Physiatry!

AAP Medical Student Council PM&R Assoc. of Academic Physiatrists (AAP)

✨ TODAY at #Physiatry24 ! ✨ Details below 👇🏼

🚨 Medical students: you won’t want to miss this session tomorrow!! 🔜
an invaluable learning opportunity hosted by the incredible Lydia Smeltz & AAP Medical Student Council PM&R team ✨

🚨Calling all medical students🚨 Come learn about how to scale up student-led disability advocacy using real world examples and success stories from our amazing team. Thrilled to be expanding upon last year’s inaugural AAP Medical Student Council PM&R session led by Colette Piasecki-Masters in year 2🌎

Congratulations Ryan Keller!!! Well deserved. This field is so lucky to have you 🌟

.Partners for Youth participants recently unveiled a mosaic art installation at Spaulding Hospital Cambridge to welcome staff and visitors. The design depicts a bright garden with different plants, creatures and objects. Learn more: spklr.io/6012WkGg.

This time of year, people think a lot about food resolutions and dieting. Listen to Eddie Phillips, MD and 'Food, We Need to Talk' podcast cohost Juna Gjata as they explain how to simplify concepts around health and fitness: spklr.io/6017WrQU.

Lydia is building an empire of individuals committed to inclusion in sport and I am honored to watch it happen 🫶🏻 #Physiatry