April 2024 Edition ~ "The Executive Edition"

thestitchprs
Mar 31, 2024
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Our April edition features pieces from our new executive board! We are excited for this next chapter of The Stitch!

If you are interested in joining The Stitch, please fill out this google form: https://forms.gle/2PzSM4ewLCdEMGRk7

Best, The Stitch Editorial Board

2024 Plastic Surgery Residency Match

Poster by Nhan Trieu, University of Florida College of Medicine

Plastic Surgery Crossword Puzzle

Illustration by Sarah Moffitt, USF Morsani College of Medicine

My name is Sarah Moffitt, and I am finishing up my second-year at USF Morsani College of Medicine. Outside of medicine, I love to run, read, and crochet. I’m very excited to join the Stitch Exec Board, and I am also passionate about medical education. So in the spirit of education, here’s a crossword puzzle about plastic surgery!

(Answers at the end)

DIEP Flap Breast Reconstruction Illustration

Medical Illustration by Kyle Ockerman, University of Florida College of Medicine

My name is Kyle Ockerman and I am a third year medical student at UF college of medicine. Breast reconstruction was what initially drew me to plastic surgery, so I wanted to create an illustration of one of my favorite breast reconstruction, procedures, the DIEP flap.

Image adapted by: https://www.verveplasticsurgery.com/reconstruction-surgery/diep-flap/

Reflections of My First Encounter with Plastic Surgery

Article Review by Parul Rai, University of Texas Medical Branch

The summer after my freshman year of college, I embarked on a surgical mission trip to a remote town called Pignon, located in the direly medically under-resourced Central Plateau region of Haiti. Through most of our cases, we addressed conditions that were especially debilitating due to a longstanding lack of medical care, including hernias and malignant thyroid tumors...which is why I was perplexed why we were going to do a cleft lip repair during one of my last days of the mission. Wasn’t this “just a cosmetic procedure,” after all?

But my perspective quickly shifted once I met the patient her family myself. This procedure would transform the trajectory of this two-year old girl’s life in terms of her self-image, how her peers would treat her, whom she’d marry... This was the day that forever changed my perspective on plastic surgery.

Below are photos I captured on my mission to Pignon.