1. What’s the best part about your residency experience?
Having returned from residency after a few years in practice, I’m so much more appreciative of all the opportunities for learning, and of when preceptors make time for didactic teaching. Having an experienced expert around at all times to ask as many questions as I want is something I definitely took for granted my first time around!
2. What’s the best part about your job?
Hearing the stories of people’s lives. Even the most humble life is filled with fascinating stories if you have the luxury of time to hear them, and show people that you’re interested.
3. Favourite past-time activities:
Trail running and racing, making things, and doing crosswords with my husband.
4. Favourite restaurant in your community:
I’ve been on a bit of an Italian food kick since moving to Vancouver two months ago, so I’ll have to go with Pepino’s Spaghetti house!
5. A book or article you would recommend:
My all-time favourite books are Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin novels, a series that follows the friendship and adventures of a naval captain and a ship’s surgeon in the Napoleonic era. If I’m reading non-fiction it’s usually either history or ecology-related – I recently enjoyed “A World on the Wing”, about the science of bird migration.
6. What are you creating in the world right now?
I took up wood burning about two years ago. Right now I’m working on a series of illustrations of all the bird species I’m seeing in my new backyard.
7. What are you most looking forward to in your career ahead?
Developing relationships with patients and families, and seeing myself become a more competent, skilled, and well-rounded physician with each additional year of experience.
