She said she was drawn to the specialty because of the urgent and diverse nature of the care, the teamwork required, and because emergency physicians are often the ones who first see people injured during heat waves, hurricanes, and other manifestations of the world’s changing climate, another interest of hers. In June, Malits is planning to enter the joint emergency medicine residency at Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s hospitals. to go with the master’s degree in public health she earned during a break between her third and fourth year of medical studies. She’ll graduate from Harvard Medical School with an M.D. This spring, Malits will officially carry on the medical tradition of women in her family. “It came really through lots of conversations with my family and identifying at a young age that I wanted to be in the practice of healing,” Malits said of her own interest in medicine. Malits said their example was hard to miss, and fostered in her an interest in healthcare from an early age, one that would begin with a focus on individual patients and eventually lead to an even broader interest in health and the environment. “After going through and studying for the boards, I have a new appreciation for what that entailed,” Malits said. Malits’ great-grandmother also practiced psychiatry in Uzbekistan, though after arriving with her daughter, she was old enough that she opted not to practice in the U.S. Once here, Malits’ grandmother repeated her residency and certification requirements so she could continue to practice in her new home. Her mother, a New York anesthesiologist, is the daughter of an Uzbek psychiatrist who came with her family to the U.S. One might think that Julia Malits’ arrival on a medical school campus was nearly preordained, since her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother were all doctors. This story is part of a series of graduate profiles ahead of Commencement ceremonies.
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