Welcome to Bone Deep

"Journey Before Destination" - Stormlight Archive

Hello!

Welcome to Bone Deep, a blog that explores my experiences and research within medicine, science, global health, and orthopedics. The scope is broad and will contain anything from reviews of new science, interviews with experts, and personal blogs during my travels and day-to-day life working within the field. I hope this will offer a peek into this world through the eyes of a medical trainee, and hopefully you will learn a little something along the way.

My name is Jamieson O’Marr and at the time of this post I am a 4th year medical student at Yale University School of Medicine. I am currently doing a research year with the Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology (IGOT) at UCSF before I apply to orthopedic surgery residency.

I intend this platform to be as transparent as possible in order to provide you, dear reader, with a true look inside this world. To that end I think it prudent to start this journey with a brief introduction. I grew up in a group of small towns on California’s Central Coast known lovingly as the “5 Cities”. My mother has worked in various service industries from weddings to phlebotomy while my father has done everything one could imagine with his hands, from construction to painting to now working as a mechanic. While both took circuitous routes to the Central Coast, from San Diego and Costa Rica respectively, neither had the opportunity to complete any higher education. My younger brother and I became the first in our family to enter that realm, and as of a few months ago, we now both have graduated college. Congrats G!

Stay tuned for more background sprinkled in among future posts, but for now I will leave it there. Feel free to subscribe to join me along this journey!

Until next time,

Jamieson