The Closeted Curriculum
Academic Medicine Podcast
English - January 15, 2024 12:00 - 5 minutes - 13.3 MB - ★★★★ - 43 ratingsEducation Health & Fitness Medicine faculty learners storytelling education medicine physicians policy trainees Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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I wonder what would change if students were taught that personal leadership was not about hiding their brokenness, but recognizing their wholeness. If we were not asked to sacrifice ourselves to serve our patients. What would be possible then? How would medicine be different?
Leighton Schreyer reflects on being a queer medical student and how things might change for the better in the future.
The essay read in this episode was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the January 2024 issue of Academic Medicine. Read the essay at academicmedicine.org.