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BEAU GILMORE: I'm Beau Gilmore. I'm a fourth year student here at UVA. I went to the University of Georgia for undergrad, and majored in biology and kinesiology, or exercise arts. I fell in love with this place on my interview day. Came up here. Just felt like home. And the people just stood out to me most.
It's a culture here, a culture of professionalism, a culture of collaboration that we have. It is different than any other place that I've ever been, people who care about our development, both professionally and academically, and also personally, too.
It's something that I had not had any other time my educational career. Diversity like this is unmatched. And I think it's made me-- it will make me a better doctor because of it. We have faculty members from Darden, from the School of Public Health. We have people who are involved with policy in Virginia and on a national level, come talk with us about the things that they're passionate about. Groups of students from all different walks of life, people who were from single income homes, people who had two physicians as parents. And we kind of talk about, and we wrestle with these issues that we're facing as a nation.
And to have this different perspective shared across that circle as something that made me a better doctor. When I was in my residency interviews this year, a lot of the residents that I was talking to said look at the lobby. Because those are the types of patients you're going to be treating every day. So that's kind of why I wanted to do this here. Because you get to look around, and you get to see the patients from all different ethnicities, all different walks of life, coming through, coming and going. And I think about that, and how it's kind of complemented my education here at UVA.
