Hey everyone!
For today's vlogmas I wanted to talk about some of my favorite shoes in medical school.
A lot of you guys have been asking for this video so I'm really happy to be doing it right
now.
So I'm gonna start from the very beginning of when I started doing interviews for medical
school to some of my favorite winter boots now.
So the first pair that I'm going to talk about is this Salvatore Ferragamo Vara shoes.
So these are a little bit of an investment.
These are probably the most expensive shoes that I have of all the shoes that I have here
in front me.
And I got these just before med school interviews and I wore them through all my medical school
interviews as well as with some of my business casual outfits and now that I'm doing residency
interviews I'm wearing these to every interview as well.
So I feel like these have held up really well.
And have been really worth the investment.
So they do have a little bit of a heel here.
Probably about two inches from what I can see.
They're pretty comfortable.
They're not great for walking all day long but they're great for interviews and if you
have to go to an event or something like that.
So I really like these.
The next pair I'm gonna be talking about is the business casual shoes that I wore actually
in the hospital.
If you're doing like medicine rotation, or a family medicine rotation you're wearing
business casual but you're walking literally all day long from 8-10 hours so the first
pair that I talked about isn't really great for that but these shoes.. these are called
Rothies... they're great for walking all day long, they're super comfortable and they're
also made of recycled water bottles so that's really awesome.
Another really great thing about this pair is that you can actually throw them in the
washer.
So I have worn these probably for a little over a year and I washed probably four times
and they held up really well.
From everyday wear and from washing four times, they're just now starting to show some of
the wear and tear in the back here.
I love these so much that I got them in another color.
I got them in this red color.
I bring this up just to say that on the website it says that there is no break-in period for
these shoes which I found it to be true for the black ones.
I pretty much started wearing them right away.
I didn't have to break them in, no blisters, nothing.
But for some reason these red pairs, it actually did give me a little bit of a blister.
It did have a little bit of a breaking in period.
So I just want you guys to be aware of that.
But overall these are super comfortable and I really recommend them for wearing in the
hospital because you have to wash your shoes from time to time.
The next pair I'm gonna be talking about is of course the iconic Dansko.
These were Christmas gifts last year and I wore them all throughout my surgery rotation.
They're great for just standing in one place for a long time like you might be in surgery
and also if you're gonna be in surgery you don't know if you're gonna be splashed of
some type of bodily fluid... these are great because they're water resistant and you can
kinda just wash them away and they're good to go.
So these are great for surgery and a lot of people wear them in the Emergency Department
as well because there you can also be splashed with something that you don't want on your
shoes.
So the other pair are these Nike Flyknit sneakers and I wore these in the hospital if I wasn't
gonna be in surgery but I was gonna be kinda running around the hospital everywhere because
the Dansko, it's great for standing in one place but it's not great for running.
These are pretty heavy.
So these are great for if doing a medicine long call or some other situation where I
knew I wasn't gonna be in surgery but I was gonna be all over the hospital.
So these are really great because they're really light and they're made of that knitted
material so they're breathable, they're light and they're great for running around.
So these are the pair that I wore on most days if I wasn't gonna be in surgery.
So those were all the pairs that I wore inside the hospital and now I'm gonna talk about
some of the pairs of shoes that I wear outside the hospital.
So you guys know that I recently started running and I experimented with a bunch of different
running shoes and I found that my favorite to run in are these ASICs Gel Kayano sneakers.
I think they're Gel Kayano 24s and found that with the other sneakers I did have a little
bit of a pain when I was running for first few miles but then afterwards I would get
used to them but I did have that initial period of getting used to.
With this pair I can pretty much run pain free for a long time from start to end.
These have become my favorite pair and these are probably gonna be the pair that I run
in for my half marathon coming up in a couple days.
For the next few pairs of shoes I have my favorite winter boots.
I did a little segment in Insta-Story just talking about all my winter boots and a lot
of you asked for more information and where to get them so I thought it would be good
to just include these in this video so you guys have all the information in one place.
These are my favorite flat boots.
They're from Marc Fisher and they have this great start decoration in the back.
I don't think this exact pair is available this year.
I got these last year but they do have these in different colors and just plain back and
these are super comfortable.
I wear them all the time.
So I think these are actually a knock offs of a very popular Acne boots but you can get
this pair for like...
literally a fraction of the cost and I feel like they have a really great cost per wear
cause I really wear them often.
They're really comfortable.
These are great pair of flat pointy toed black boots... booties?...
boots.
The next pair is my new favorite of the moment.
These are the Dune London Pancras boots.
And they have this great croc embossing all around.
And they do have a three inch heel but these are probably the most comfortable heel boot
that I have worn.
I can literally walk hours in them and I don't hesitate to reach for them if I know that
I'm gonna be walking a lot.
I really love how they look.
I feel like they really elongate your leg.
They're pointy and they have a little bit of a heel and overall I feel like these are
a great pair for going out and also for casual as well.
Last but not least.. these are my Kenneth Cole booties and they have a little bit of
a heel as well.
These are kind of in line with that sock booties trend.
So it does have a little bit of a tighter leather ankle sleeve kinda thing in the front
and it has a zip in the back with a tassle detail I love and these heel are slightly
higher than the Dune boots that I just talked about so they're a little harder to walk in
but they're still pretty comfortable.
so I wouldn't mind walking a few blocks in them if I'm going out to dinner or if I'm
going out the movies or something like that so these are really great.
So those are all the shoes that I have for today.
I hope you guys found it helpful.
I'm gonna link all the information in the description box below so if you guys wanna
check it out you can look there.
If you have any questions about what to wear in the hospital or any questions about these
shoes in general I can try to answer them in the comment section below.
So I hope you guys enjoyed the video and I will see you guys next time.
Byee!