Second-Year Residents’ Report (Cont.)

Alumni Weekend, and we plan to attend our last AAO Annual Conference as residents in Chicago this April.

We know that we have a lot of work ahead of us, but with the support of our colleagues and faculty, we are positive that we will succeed! Our class has grown together through the challenges and triumphs of residency, and we will continue to lean on each other to complete the rigorous months ahead. For our class, 2023 is a year in which one chapter will close and the next will open, but we know that we will always be a part of the Dugoni family and look forward to transitioning into the orthodontic profession.

FIRST-Year Residents’ Report

Dr. Andre Tran and Dr. Kristin Lo (Class of 2024)

Greetings from the Class of 2024! We have been having an absolute blast at our dream residency! Though the stream of information has quickly turned into roaring rapids, we’ve managed to keep our humble raft afloat. The past six months have sailed by as we attempt to learn orthodontics by osmosis: navigating through classes and seminars, treating patients in clinic, muddling through bracket prescriptions and wire sequences, and celebrating a number of baby showers the best way we know how: with plenty of sweets. Here’s a highlight of what we’ve been up to these past few months!

This year, GORP took place at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor! We had so much fun exploring such a historic city. Between informative lectures, we mingled with residents from other schools and were introduced to the crazy world of ortho vendors. We were blessed to have the best tour guides in the world as Yash and Seung ah completed their undergraduate studies in Michigan. Despite the heat and humidity, we enjoyed an action-packed walking tour through the campus and surrounding downtown area: admiring the stained glass windows in the campus library; reveling in the greenery and foliage, a stark contrast to the inner city cement jungle we call home; and pizza. Lots and lots of pizza. This amazing experience strengthened the bonds within our class and with our lovely resident big siblings who took us under their wings and continue to light our way through residency.