Collegiality is ripe in our journey through medicine. In each other's company, we plow through exams, piece together our clinical expertise there dozens of rotations and share our experiences, frustrating and endearing. When we move on, we take not only the factual and experiential information, but leave with a page from the lesson book from each of our close friends and study buddies, professors and mentors, and clinicians and nurses who took part in our education.
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When school is out, however, one cannot deny a tinge of nostalgia that lingers as we leave our training wheels behind and assume the coveted role of being an independent decision-maker for our patients.
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Your network represents the trials and tribulations of the past decade, a group of common minds that felt the same ups and downs as you did at some point, and were honest with their feelings. You can get a cup of coffee with your med school budy in one city and crash on your co-resident’s couch in another town. This is all a result of the sleepless nights that you spent together studying for your board exams. Or it could be due to that one week that the two of you mutually covered a busy inpatient service.
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Every moment that you spent together in the past, and every moment that you get together in the future, is priceless.

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