Medea Shanidze

General Surgery PGY-2 | UMich and @utoledomed Alumna | First Generation American | Former Ice Hockey Player | Tomato Enthusiast | DMs open for skincare rec’s

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

channeling the spirit of my great-grandmother who was a trauma surgeon in the Soviet Union during WW2. please get me through intern year #ilooklikeasurgeon

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

Bought uworld for step 3 today…ready to be hurt again

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

@NSamanichMD @GautamSharmaMD @UHhospitals @UHAnesthesia @ASRA_Society Not surprised that you’re excelling @NSamanichMD !!!

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Really need this pandemic to finally be controlled so that I can actually smile at my patients

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

My new post call routine is to bike the 4 blocks to my moms house when I wake up and have her make food for me 😋

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

@GabrielleGear @Tamara66949263 @KelseyObGyn I’m a big birkis girl

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

Since I’m going into surgery, my mom made me give her nice stethoscope back 😒

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

My best friend got married on mackinaw island today and

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@ariananaaseh ya really didn’t love reading that the same day I found out I start intern year with vascular

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

For those of you who have followed me on my TJ journey: I will be living 2 miles away from a Trader joes. It is located between me and the hospital. All is well

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

Might be a little early to ask about interview questions...but do you guys think it’s ok to ask programs where is the closest Trader Joe’s?

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@hibsumra I like being told that my accent is very good. Thnx been working on it since I was little

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@itsamebeyardo I guess that's one way to describe her

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

Just got a rejection email for a VSAS application that I submitted in April of 2020...in a different specialty than the one I ended up applying for 🙃

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

@itsamebeyardo she was a crabby girl

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

Really lucked out in the whole residency lottery thing...gonna have the opportunity to drive by this every day

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

@QueenMD2024 I’m going into gen surg and I ranked my program based on training volume and work/life balance. First thing everyone who knows my program says to me is that my PD is very strict about duty hours. Culture matters!

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

Making a promise to myself now that come July I will correct every attending who says my name incorrectly instead of just responding to anything that sounds even remotely like it...and I’m already nervous

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

Each Monday brings a fresh wave of new onboarding tasks and I low key love it

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

My match day prezzie came in!!! Soda stream club!!

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

@SKHillMD @lark_meghan I am getting a lot of unexpected coffee opinions and I’m here for it

[Medea Shanidze @MShanidze]

2 pm coffee is the best coffee