Brittany Garza is a 2014 Lyman Briggs and Honors College graduate and a 2022 College of Osteopathic Medicine graduate. She is currently an attending physician in Owosso, Michigan.
I started my journey to medicine in the Lyman Briggs College and Honors College in 2014. As a premedical student, I was very thankful to get involved in pipeline programs that paved my pathway into medical school. In the Lyman Briggs residential college, I was connected with numerous pre-medical associations with the most important one being the Osteopathic Medical Scholars Program. This organization connected me with countless physician mentors who showed me how to perform osteopathic manipulative medicine, connected me to volunteer and shadowing opportunities, and helped me create a network of likeminded premedical students who were on the same journey I was.
I was thankful to begin medical school at the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine in the summer of 2018. I graduated in May of 2022 and matched into an emergency medicine residency program at Central Michigan University.
During my eight years, I was thankful to participate in Michigan State’s world class international education curriculum. I participated in five study abroad programs and presented what I learned at the Global Learning Conference held every November on campus.