![[UArizona Internal Medicine Student Association members with IMSA faculty advisor Amy Sussman, MD (center), at a Post-Match Day celebration at Zinburger in Tucson: Bailey Antonowicz (MS4), Katie Pulling (MS4), Sanjay Menghani (MS4), Lauren Murphy (MS4), Dr. Sussman, Lupita Molina(MS4), Julia Couto (MS4), and Molly Courtright (MS2).]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/post-match_night_zinburger_4.18.24_600x338px.jpg "UArizona Internal Medicine Student Association members with IMSA faculty advisor Amy Sussman, MD (center), at a Post-Match Day celebration at Zinburger in Tucson: Bailey Antonowicz (MS4), Katie Pulling (MS4), Sanjay Menghani (MS4), Lauren Murphy (MS4), Dr. Sussman, Lupita Molina(MS4), Julia Couto (MS4), and Molly Courtright (MS2).")
UArizona Internal Medicine Student Association members, pictured at right, with IMSA faculty advisor Amy Sussman, MD (center), at a Post-Match Day celebration at Zinburger: Bailey Antonowicz (MS4), Katie Pulling (MS4), Sanjay Menghani (MS4), Lauren Murphy (MS4), Dr. Sussman, Lupita Molina(MS4), Julia Couto (MS4), and Molly Courtright (MS2).
A post-Match Day annual celebration for the UArizona chapter of the Internal Medicine Student Association with their faculty advisor, Amy Sussman, MD, turned into a great way to share advice on how graduating seniors navigated rotations and residencies as third- and fourth-year medical students.
At an April 18 dinner at Zinburger in Tucson, those graduating medical students, MS4s, offered that advice to MS1s and MS2s getting ready for clerkships and sub-internships and other medical rotations to help them expand their awareness of medical fields in which they might like to specialize – and prepare them for Match Day, held March 15 this year, and residency training after graduation.
Attending were six MS4s and about 15 MS1s and MS2s, as well as Dr. Sussman, who also is a professor and fellowship director in the Division of Nephrology and vice chair for education and Internal Medicine Clerkship director for the Department of Medicine. She started the dinner celebration about six years ago.
![[Dr. Amy Sussman, pictured here, was named the 2024 Outstanding Teacher in the Clinical Sciences and the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award winner by University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson graduating students.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/sussman_amy-md_whitecoat_140x210px-96dpi_1.jpg "Dr. Amy Sussman was named the 2024 Outstanding Teacher in the Clinical Sciences and the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award winner by University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson graduating students.")
“It’s an event that I host every year through the IMSA club,” Dr. Sussman said. “We select a handful of matched IM applicants and have a dinner with their underclassman so they can impart their words of wisdom on how to prepare for a residency in IM, from application prep to interviews. The whole night ends up being a mentoring session, which is awesome to see the fourth-years mature into this role.”
In recognition of her mentorship, this year, Dr. Sussman was once again named the Outstanding Teacher in the Clinical Sciences (it’s her fourth time receiving the award) by graduating students of the college. As such, she and Bill Rappaport, MD, a professor of cellular and molecular medicine who was named the Outstanding Teacher in the Basic Sciences, will lead all MS4s as faculty marshals in the Centennial Hall graduation procession during the during the 2024 COM-T Convocation Ceremony on May 9 (The procession, and ceremony, will be livestreamed at this link.). As they have shared the honor multiple times, both will be retired from eligibility for the award after this year.
Dr. Sussman also was the winner this year of the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, an honor bestowed by students as part of the local chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society and the Arnold P. Gold Foundation.