ALLISON ASHFORD, MD: I am Allison Ashford. I am the Med Peds program director here at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and I'm also a Med Peds hospitalist. In my hospital, medicine cup, half of it is here at Children's Hospital, and then the other half is at the university, doing internal medicine. 

RACHEL JOHNSON, MD: I'm Rachel Johnson, I'm a Med Peds physician with Nebraska Medicine and University of Nebraska Medical Center, and I'm our APD or Associate Program Director for the Med Peds program. So a Med Peds residency is four years where our residents are trained in both internal medicine and pediatric medicine. At the end, they're able to take both board exams, so internal medicine board exam and pediatric board exam, and are essentially both an internist and a pediatrician. Our goal is to help support residents to be fantastic physicians in whatever area they want to be. 

BRIAN SMITH, MD: My name is Brian Smith. I'm currently at the end of my second year in the UNMC Med Peds program. The main reason that I chose Med Peds was for the breadth of training opportunities. For a long time, I was in between general surgery as a specialty and med peds as a specialty. And what was really driving that was, I wanted something that was going to give me as much exposure to as many organ systems as I could. And there were multiple things that sort of ended up tilting me towards med peds. But one of the things that I think that I eventually appreciated more so after talking to a lot of the Med Peds faculty and getting to know them better was just how they're trained to approach these problems. 

KIRSTEN RUPP, MD: name is Kirsten Rupp, and my role in the Med Peds program is I'm a Med Peds core faculty member. I precept the Med Peds residents here at the Fontanelle Health Center. Our faculty is all willing to both be asked questions and answer questions, but also, we're always willing to learn. And so we can bounce ideas off of each other, which is nice. 

HALEY DEWITT, MD: I'm Haley Dewitt. I'm originally from Papillion, Nebraska. I've lived in Nebraska all my life. I went to UNMC for medical school, and now I'm an intern, or a first year, in the Med Peds program here at UNMC. My future career goals include being a combined hospitalist, so I can continue to work with both children and adults. 

So we see patients all the way from their first breath, their first day of life. We follow kids all throughout adolescence, and then play a pivotal role in what we call the transition period, when they're transitioning from pediatric care to adult care, when they hit that 19 to 21 range. And then we get to see young adults, all the way up to our geriatrics patients. And then we're also present for some people's last day of life. 

ELIZABETH RAMIER, MD: My name is Elizabeth Ramler, but everyone calls me Eli, and I am a second-year Med Peds resident at UNMC. I love that our Med Peds clinic, it's in a socially needy area of Omaha. We have a lot of diversity there, a lot of patients with humbling stories. 

HALEY DEWITT, MD: We have a state-of-the-art simulation center at the Davis Global Center, where we commonly get to practice ultrasound skills, procedural skills, trained for different acute settings that we'd experience in the hospital. 

ALLISON ASHFORD, MD: A great Med Peds resident is wanting to do both internal medicine and pediatrics, able to be flexible, wants to be a leader, understands hard work, is supportive of peers, and wants to have fun. 

HALEY DEWITT, MD: You get the best of both worlds in terms of rigorous training, both in the inpatient and the outpatient setting, but they also place great emphasis on work/life balance. 

ALLISON ASHFORD, MD: I think Omaha has the perfect big-city, big-ish city vibe, but also a very neighborly community. If you are somebody that needs outdoor activities, we have lakes. We have rivers. People waterski and boat and fish. We don't have mountains, but they're not far away from here. Omaha is the best place to train. 

This is a great institution to train at. I stay because I love it here. I love how much growth there always is. I do feel that my training here will prepare me, regardless of where I end up in a career, and what I end up doing. It brings so much joy to me to both be able to interact with patients and families, with residents, and also see them enjoy medicine and pediatrics the same way I do.