In this inaugural post of the JSCOR blog reboot, Sarah Kaslow describes her experiences as a Johns Hopkins School of Public Health MPH student participating in the JSCOR Surgery Faculty-Student Mentoring Program. As a third year medical student planning to apply for residency in General Surgery, an attending surgeon challenged my decision to pursue a degree in public health. “Surgery is really an individual specialty. What are you going to do with a degree in public health in