‘¡Que bola!’ from Miami! Summer is coming to an end and we couldn’t be more proud of our new interns. For the first time since Covid, we are re-incorporating some of the best parts of our residency. Our program director, Dr. Valori Slane, is currently abroad leading an elite team of senior residents and core faculty as they provide education and care to underserved patients in rural Nicaragua. Back home in Miami, our interns are resuming their pre-hospital experience with the world-class Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue team (MDFR), and some of our senior residents will be joining them for specialized electives in Air Transport and Water Rescue.

In October, once again we meet on the playing field with our friends and rivals, Aventura EM, and we also welcome competition from our “little sib” program, Westside Regional EM. That’s right – it is SIMWARs Season. On the grid-iron, our fiercest clinicians will go toe-to-toe for bragging rights, education, and most importantly, fun! The competition doesn’t stop there – at home, we are competing against Kendall IM in the ICUlympics to determine the true Crit-Care Gurus within the hospital.

When we aren’t practicing for SIMWARs, catch us at one of our monthly journal clubs. One-by-one, we are dropping through Miami’s best craft-breweries. We are so grateful to our research fellowship-trained attendings Drs. Murtaza Akhter and Daniel Leiva as they help us hunt for the truth behind the statistics in EM literature (while we hunt for the tastiest brews in Miami). Interested students, follow us on Instragram
@kendall_emresidency to keep an eye out for our upcoming Med-Student Social! ■