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While in a meeting, I (Ben) felt my phone buzz in my pocket. My heart skipped a beat, sweat slowly beading on my forehead. I closed my eyes and hoped that it wasn’t a dreaded call from school. It was. I excused myself from the meeting and stepped out into the hallway. As...

Throughout this issue, you’ll read about the enormous variety of valuable ways to spend your time while you’re attending the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago. You can’t miss the Opening Session, where ASCO president Dr. Eric P. Winer will discuss his inspiring theme, and where the impressive list of guest speakers includes NCI...

By Sabe Sabesan, PhD, FRACPGrowing up in a village in Northern Sri Lanka, befriending rural Australians in medical school at Flinders University in Adelaide, and doing my internship in Alice Springs provided me lived and observed experience of the enduring daily difficulties in accessing health services faced by regional and rural communities. Negative experiences...

Some questions come up again and again in job interviews. At the top of the list: “Tell me about yourself,” “Why do you want to work here?” and “What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?” The strengths-and-weaknesses question may seem like the easiest of the bunch for job seekers to answer, given the classic...

By Mona Hassan, MDFor many oncology fellows, including me, the ultimate goal is to have an academic career combining research and clinical practice. At the beginning of fellowship, and as your early career takes off, you focus on doing as much research as you can and publishing as many papers as possible. Of course,...