Hello, #MedTwitter! 👋
I’m Samira — born in Florida 🇺🇸, raised in Brazil 🇧🇷, and currently an MS4 preparing for the USMLE Step 1.
Excited to connect with others on the same journey toward residency in the U.S.! 💪
My aspiration is #InternalMedicine — what’s yours?👩🏽⚕️
Last day of #MAABootcamp! 🚀
An unforgettable experience that changed the way I see research and evidence-based medicine. Grateful for the amazing mentors, inspiring colleagues, and everything I learned along the way. Thank you, @metaacademy_ofc! Looking forward to what's next!
Excited to join GPOH, a Brazilian research group created during the @metaacademy_ofc Bootcamp! 🚀 We're already working on our first systematic review in multiple myeloma. Looking forward to learning, collaborating, and contributing to impactful research! 🔬📚 #MAABootcamp
It’s interview season! Here’s an article I wrote with advice for applicants, based on 15+ years of doing interviews at every level from med school to residency to fellowship. Give it a read and let me know what you think. https://t.co/97FBg96Xj0
✅✅ A reminder by Dr. Rahaf Ajaj:
She wasn’t on the Stanford list… but she made it to the Nobel stage. 🏅
Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21.
She never appeared in Stanford’s ranking of the world’s top 2% of scientists.
She didn’t chase citations, metrics, or the spotlight.
Yet, she became part of a discovery that changed how humanity understands the immune system.
Today, while many are busy chasing numbers, titles, and rankings —
she reminds us what truly matters in science: the question.
🔹 She wasn’t running after the lists.
🔹 She was running after the truth.
Because in the end, it’s not about how many papers you publish…
It’s about how deeply your idea can reshape the world.
Focus on your idea, not your ranking.