0:01 — Jessica Weber: one of the things that really drew me to Primary Children's and University of Utah was that Community atmosphere that collaboration of practice when I [SUBTITLE: Jessica Weber, PGY6 Pediatric Endocrinology Fellow] interviewed I really felt like I was part of this group and I hadn't even accepted you know an offer to be a fellow here

0:24 — Paola Blanco: the first time I was here like all [SUBTITLE: Jessica Weber, PGY5 Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellow] of the attendings were saying don't call me doctor so and so they were just saying call me by my first name  here it's very professional but it's  very informal so it allows it just a nice environment to grow and  to ask questions was born and raised in Florida um I knew I wanted something different I ended up choosing to to come to the to the West specifically to Utah um I think the one thing that Drew me the most was our our large catchment area we have Utah but then we have the five surrounding states

1:02 — Francis Lomata: I heard that you know this is the only children's hospital with a very large catchment area and [SUBTITLE: Francis Lomata, PGY6 Pediatric Nephrology Fellow]  so at that point I knew I was going to get um some good training especially being exposed to different pathologies and whatnot I take phone calls from hospitals that are uh essentially at the border of Canada and I've had to provide uh rural medicine uh through the phone that is a very unique um experience for me and I really wanted to learn how to  ski and I was like you know what I think Utah would be a good place to live and  do the outdoorsy stuff and at the same time learn some good pediatric nephology

1:47 — Paola Blanco: it's wild to me um to think that I can drive you know from the city  minutes out and I can I have access to countless of Hiking Trails camping  spots you also have the City itself which has you know tons of restaurants it's like the world is your oyster here

2:07 — Jessica Weber: I was worried about being at a smaller or mediumsized program but really found that I've been able to get  what I was looking for by having those  cool fellows around and and having them to learn from they're very much a fellow centered program and so everything is around centered around the Learners and what's best for you as a learner it's more of what can we do to be better for what can we do to make sure that you have all of the opportunities that you want or need I really think that speaks to like we're  fellows and we're we have that camaraderie together but our  attendings really treat us as if we're colleagues

2:46 — Francis Lomata: with the pediatric nephology department everybody is at a different stage of training or career in their life having those faculty members that are in different stages of their career I kind of get pieces and bits of like their [Music] experiences

3:05 — Paola Blanco: I've come to realize that all the other programs offer as much as you know as we might hear we have our you know our general endoscopy our upper and our lower Scopes but um we have the the opportunity to do Advanced endoscopy so like esophageal dilations  Endo knife some programs offer like an extra year Fellowship for these like to  get good at these but we have the volume and we have we have our attendings that  have the skills to do these procedures we have that opportunity to to have  that incorporated into our three-year  Fellowship so if we want to get good at those skills we  can

3:44 — Jessica Weber: at the University of Utah or at primary children saying it's about the it's about the people that work here the nursing staff the respiratory therapists the doctors it just come keeps coming back to that culture that  we've created here that we are here for  each other and we're supporting each  other through that and and we're doing that with also really very patient centered and patient focused

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4:09 — Francis Lomata: primary childrens's is one of the top hospitals in the nation we get very good Training you get very um good exposures uh to different pathologies the environment here Primary Children's is very good it's um very collegial and I think that goes a long way in just building a mindset for trainees to bring them on for the rest of their  careers

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