“这一遗产的一部分”
Sams met the woman who would become his wife, Molly, while working in Alaska.
By the time he had completed his undergraduate work in 加州, the two had married.
萨姆斯说，他一直很喜欢做护理人员, and that his wife encouraged him to take that enjoyment to the next level and become a doctor.
他开始申请中西部地区的医学院, 这样他和莫莉就能更接近双方的家人了.
他发现自己被代顿大学录取了, Ohio’s Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine the very same morning he was interviewing at OUWB.
“I was really relaxed for interviews at OUWB because I was like ‘I’ve already got an acceptance letter, 我在,’”他说. “(Being accepted at Wright State) helped me do better for my OUWB interview.”
最终, 他被OUWB录取并决定就读, in part because it was so close to his wife’s family in Farmington Hills.
“但我也真的很喜欢在那里采访的人, 博蒙特有着丰富的历史,他说.
萨姆斯说，他也喜欢这是一所较新的学校. 他上的是OUWB的第二堂课.
“他们说他们将变得灵活和敏捷, and that they were going to change stuff on the fly and that I would be part of it…I would be part of this legacy of building something from the ground up,他说. “我觉得这真的很酷.”
“我觉得我准备好了。”
Sams says there wasn’t exactly one moment when he realized he had made the right choice. 相反，这是一种随着时间的推移而浮出水面的整体感觉.
“You saw that people were really there to help you succeed,他说. “在学校和医院之间, 有成百上千的人可以教你, 让你了解最新情况, 一路抚育你.”
“Everybody talks about how difficult and overwhelming medical school is, 但只有到那里你才会知道,他说. “But having all of these people there to help me, I knew I was in the right place.”
山姆的导师是密歇根州的莱恩·福林格.D., 研究生医学教育副院长, OUWB, and director of Graduate Medical Education for Beaumont Health – Royal Oak, 特洛伊, 和格罗斯波因特. 萨姆斯还与罗伯特·斯沃尔(Robert Swor)密切合作.O.他是急诊医学系的教授.
“People like that were very kind, very welcoming, and pointed me in the right direction,他说.
他最美好的回忆之一是与M . Angela Nuzzarello.D.她当时是负责学生事务的副院长.
“I was a non-traditional student and hadn’t been in school for a long time and she really went out of her way to help me figure out what I could change and what needed to be addressed so I could get back on track,他说. 最终我做到了. 如果没有她，谁知道会发生什么?”
He would match at University of Michigan on what he calls “the most stressful day of my life.”
当毕业典礼来临的时候，萨姆斯说这是超现实的. 他被选为班级发言人.
“I was definitely well-prepared for residency and stood out among my peers and I think that speaks to OUWB and the preparation they gave me,他说.
“没有的话”
Sams and his wife now have four children and that means that “every day is just kind of chaos and fun,他说. They love spending time with each other — walking, camping, and traveling.
在密歇根医学院实习了四年之后, Sams did a one-year EMS fellowship at University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center.
In 2021, he was accepted into an aerospace medicine fellowship at Mayo Clinic.
The two-year program aims to develop experienced clinicians into leaders in the clinical and research domains of aerospace medicine. 每年只接受一名研究员. 同时，他申请加入美国国家航空航天局 CHAPEA火星 并进入了12强赛. 不幸的是, 2022年初, he had to leave the Mayo program and withdraw from the CHAPEA selection process and return home due to a family medical emergency.
In March, he began in his current role 作为密歇根医学院的急诊医师. 除此之外, he is part of the Survival Flight team and working on tactical EMS with the Huron Valley Ambulance.
不管他人生的下一阶段是什么, 萨姆斯说，他也总是注意自己的出身, 包括OUWB.
“There are really no words or no amount of thank you’s that I could give to OUWB that would be sufficient,他说.
10月. 7, 2022
作者:Andrew Dietderich
