Author: Kayla Correia-Staudt

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University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Kayla Correia-Staudt is a Class of 2017 medical student at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She is currently pursuing the couples match with her husband and fellow IM applicant. For fun, she enjoys adopting older dogs, hosting dinner parties and making sourdough bread.




Finding a Home in Internal Medicine

Published by Kayla Correia-Staudt

Whenever I consider my time in medical school, I am surprised by how quickly I have been able to cultivate a sense of belonging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, far from home and in a very unfamiliar setting. After all, I grew up in a single-parent household with my dad in a small, weary mill town in central Massachusetts called Ware. He was a carpenter who always carried at least two jobs to make ends meet. I did not really thrive in medical school until my first rotation on the wards, where I was reintroduced to “my kind of people” — patients.

Kayla Correia-Staudt Kayla Correia-Staudt (1 Posts)

Contributing Writer

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Kayla Correia-Staudt is a Class of 2017 medical student at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She is currently pursuing the couples match with her husband and fellow IM applicant. For fun, she enjoys adopting older dogs, hosting dinner parties and making sourdough bread.