{"id":20895,"date":"2020-08-18T12:27:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T16:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/?page_id=20895"},"modified":"2020-08-18T13:07:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:07:50","slug":"alumni-testimonials","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/general-surgery-residency-program\/alumni-testimonials\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Testimonials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-20895\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-20895-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-20895-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-20895-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p>The program is very clinically strong. We had diverse exposure to different hospitals and surgeons. A great mix of general surgery and subspecialty training. With this diversity, every trainee can find what area interests them and also identify mentors. I felt well trained when I finished and was able to really focus on my fellowship and subspecialty training. Surgically, the case volume was robust. I really enjoyed the surgeons I worked with; they all taught me different things and I am very appreciative of that. That training is certainly a part of what I do every day in caring for my patients.<\/p>\n<p>Carrie<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Jadlowiec, M.D.<br \/>\n<em>Division of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Mayo Clinic, Arizona<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I always felt like I belonged from day one at UConn. The residency was my family for five years ... from fellow residents to the faculty to the hospital staff. It was a supportive learning environment where I spent some of the best years of my life and still talk to my co-chiefs and residents about life, cases and career. I also continue to keep in touch with my mentors who also became my friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Nikki Goulet, M.D.<br \/>\n<em>Assistant Professor<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Medical Director, Surgery Intensive Care Unit<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Emergency Surgery<br \/>\nNYU Langone Health<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The program is very clinically strong. We had diverse exposure to different hospitals and surgeons. A great mix of general surgery and subspecialty training. With this diversity, every trainee can find what area interests them and also identify mentors. I felt well trained when I finished and was able to really focus on my fellowship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"parent":2872,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 01:25:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20895"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20900,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20895\/revisions\/20900"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}