Meet Our Residents
All Residents
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Mariel Kalkach Aparicio, MD
- Class of 2028
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Medical School
Universidad Anáhuac Escuela de Medicina Naucalpan de Juarez, Mexico
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What are your interests or hobbies?
Reading, learning languages, philosophy, archaeology, scubadiving, dancing.
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If I wasn’t a doctor, I would be a…
Neuroscientist or Archaeologist.
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If you could only have three apps on a smartphone, which would you pick?
WhatsApp, Clock, wallet.
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If you could meet one person, living or dead, real or fictional, and have a conversation with them, who would you meet and what would you talk about?
Cleopatra, about what really happened.
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Why University of South Dakota?
It’s the most caring, friendly, with top-quality teachers opportunity there is in the Midwest.