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Wear what you feel comfortable in. You like heels, wear them. Be tall AF. You like flats, wear flats. Geezus why is this still a thing?

Pumped in the NICU lactation room during training, and in my office once I was an attending. Other trainees found a sympathetic attending to either use their office or find them a private space.

Just wear something dressy! I had a flowered wrap skirt with a blazer for med school, mint green skirt suit for residency (didn't interview for fellowship) and had grey and camel pants suits for jobs.

Specialty website/meetings and word of mouth from fellowship attendings.

Talk to some people that practice pedi path. Either in a "community" children's hospital or in a larger academic center. Not the ones who write grants, the ones who contribute to a few clinical case reports a year, participate in resident and possibly fellow teaching, and work hard to serve...

I'm in a practice that is all women except for one dude (who is not the director). He is the only source of drama, so yeah, I guess you're right.

I would personally review normal histology. It might make looking at slides more enjoyable.

I must have missed that booth.

LAD I hope you don't mind, but the next big life problem I have, I'm coming straight to you. Seriously. No BS.

Well, he finished training a while ago, but I hear he may be looking.

Is this like a thing with you?

One of my interviews had me attend one of their teaching conferences, then casually asked for my input, along with the trainees and other attendings who were there. I felt like that was the test. I've heard of really formal slide tests with an answer sheet and time limit and stuff. I...

If you are being tested on a microscope then you need to study on a microscope. Digital images are helpful in part, but it would be difficult to only study digital and then try to use the microscope cold in an exam situation.

Depends- my specialty sees some common things and some VERY uncommon things- so I studied the stuff I hadn't seen every day in fellowship and one year of working in the field.

Some of it may depend on where you want to live, or where you might want to work after fellowship, as many take internal fellows on as faculty. Some good ones- in no particular order: Boston Brown (especially for perinatal) CHOP in Philadelphia Pittsburgh Cinncinnati Childrens...