Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Heart Surg Forum. 2021 Aug 25;24(4):E690-E699. doi: 10.1532/hsf.4243.
It's Spring in Virginia, and the senior medical students have gotten their Match results and are sending emails and texts thanking their mentors for the guidance and help provided in this final stage of their medical school trajectories. Their gratitude, of course, has reminded me of my own appreciation for those who advised, taught, and mentored me at similar points in my own trajectory. However, those recollections have also called to mind some other less traditional and, perhaps, underappreciated 'mentors' that I had the great fortune to encounter and to be influenced by. These thoughts have prompted me to reflect on my appreciation for these people who, especially in retrospect, helped me become a better doctor.
弗吉尼亚的春天到了，高年级医学生们收到了他们的 Match 结果，他们正在通过电子邮件和短信向导师表示感谢，感谢他们在医学院校生涯的最后阶段提供的指导和帮助。他们的感激之情当然也让我想起了自己对那些在我自己的人生轨迹中类似时刻给我建议、教导和指导的人的感激之情。然而，这些回忆也让我想起了一些其他不太传统的、也许不那么被重视的“导师”，我有幸遇到并受到他们的影响。这些想法促使我反思我对这些人的感激之情，这些人，尤其是回顾过去，帮助我成为了一名更好的医生。
