Hello! New here, new city, new everything...

[SoonerTexan]

Another Texan (sort of Oklahoman) here--welcome!

I KNEW it was Blue Bell ice-cream! I didn't even know it wasn't a national thing until recently...I've almost always lived somewhere it was available.

Hey...if you have a Trader Joes, you are 1 up on Texas!

[MDPhDWife]

My DH is an intern too who is doing his prelim year in IM. We are struggling and we don't even have to move until next year. Believe me, we get it around here. I'm in NM and we have Blue Bell ice cream but I've never tried it. I'll have to buy it next time I'm at the store. Stick around and post often!

[AmeliePoulain]

He completed oncology residency in another country (they do it differently there) and then did a short felllowship at MD Anderson. I know it sounds backwards but it is good experience. What about your husband?

[AmeliePoulain]

OMG I miss Jack in the Box! I had never had White Castle. I tried looking for a job at first but am now taking a few college courses instead. I miss the mexican food... corn tortillas are so stiff when I do find them at stores. I can't find plantains, I like to fry them and eat them with sour cream. I know it seems all I think about is food! Mediterranean is great here though!

[AmeliePoulain]

We do have Trader Joe's, I had never been to one before but I like it

[SoonerTexan]

What type of oncology? Might have crossed paths with a family member...

[AmeliePoulain]

He was in Leukemia last year

[MrsK]

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[Phoebe]

I love MI! Born and raised there. I would move back in a heartbeat!

[Cinderella]

He is Syrian, although not like any Syrian I had met, if that makes any sense. He completed oncology residency in Damascus (they do it differently there) and then did a short felllowship at MD Anderson. I know it sounds backwards but it is good experience. What about your husband?

My husband is Egyptian. He graduated from Ain Shams University in the faculty of medicine. He completed residency in internal medicine and general surgery and did his mandatory military duty as a doctor for the egyptian army. Then he went to work in a private practice on the red sea in a resort town with several of his fellow graduates. They had a really good business working with foriegn tourists until the founder of the practice died in a car crash one christmas. It was very sad. He was a very good friend of ours and an very old friend of my husbands. Now my husband has traveled here to the states to start a new life with me in my home country and is currently studying for his USMLE's.

Luckily his BIL and Sister are here as well and they are both doctors. He is an orthopeadic suregon and she's a cardiologist. It made the transition here easier for him as he spent some time with them at their medical learning hospital. They're both M.D./Ph.D. BIL is done with his PhD and Sister is finishing hers currently at the same place. Then they head back to Egypt by the end of this year to finish their obligation with the egyptian medical university that gave them the scholarship to come to the States for the PhD program. It's a two year requirement of working for the faculty of medicine in Egypt as repayment. Sister will go finish that but afterwards she may come back for a residency in the States as she's finished all 3 steps of the USMLE and is certified here. Dh says the family may stay in Egypt as the Ph.D. and US certification are something really important there and they can do well with that.

There is another iMSN member whose husband is Syrian as well.

Oh and yes you can change your name. I had to request it from an administrator and they changed mine for me.

[SoonerTexan]

He was in Leukemia last year

Ahh, probably not then. MD Anderson is cool, though!

[v-girl]

I'm in Texas! Came on a Greyhound bus when I was 4 or 5. You'd have to drag me kicking and screaming to get me to move. We're blessed to have done med school, residency, fellowship in Dallas. Heck, faculty will be here too.

[MrsPotts]

Welcome!

[Chrisada]

We moved from Nashville, TN to Ann Arbor for med. school. I'm pretty sure I cried when we moved, but I am in love with MI now!

[AmeliePoulain]

Vgirl you are so lucky you don't have to leave! From where did you move?