Obviously what struck me first about Metro were the people. I felt so welcomed here as a medical student and remember seeing my program director and several of our assistant program directors at ACEP and being constantly invited to join the Metro crew for events.

But what makes Metro an especially unique place to train is our approach to graduated responsibility—I consider it more “graduated expectations” and less “graduated opportunities”. Interns—and medical students even!—get to participate in procedures and take on complex patients with our attending physicians close behind us on day 1.

In this way, we spend our entire residency learning how to treat sick patients rather than spending intern year only learning how to treat lower acuity problems.

I’m from a much bigger city than Cleveland but I’ve really fallen in love with the Cleveland charm. I love that I can take a 15 minute RTA train to any major league sports game I’d want to see (sorry hockey fans), or head downtown for a night out for less than a $20 uber. The restaurants here are incredible and I feel like my resident salary lets me live much more comfortably than I would anywhere else!