Academic Medicine Podcast
279 episodes - English - Latest episode: 29 days ago - ★★★★ - 43 ratingsMeet medical students and residents, clinicians and educators, health care thought leaders and researchers in this podcast from the journal Academic Medicine. Episodes chronicle the stories of these individuals as they experience the science and the art of medicine. Guests delve deeper into the issues shaping medical schools and teaching hospitals today. Subscribe to this podcast and listen as the conversation continues.
The journal Academic Medicine serves as an international forum to advance knowledge about the principles, policy, and practice of research, education, and patient care in academic settings.
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Episodes
The Joy of Clinical Trials
November 28, 2022 12:00 - 5 minutes - 11.9 MBThis one, brief moment opened me up to the greatest sense of appreciation; regardless of the treatment arm, role, or results, it is the journey we embark on together, side by side with our participants, teams, and peers, that will contribute to our greater collective knowledge, advances in care, and a better future. Vanita R. Aroda, director of diabetes clinical research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, ...
Exploring Our Ways of Knowing: About the Research Methodologies Used in HPE Publications
November 21, 2022 12:00 - 34 minutes - 66.3 MBGuest Heeyoung Han, PhD, joins hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee members Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, and Andres Fernandez, MD, MEd, to discuss new research into the different methodologies used in health professions education research and how rigorous, or not, the descriptions of these methodologies are in published studies. Also covered is advice for researchers who want to more creatively and rigorously conduct and write up their work. A transcript of thi...
The Power of Our Words
November 14, 2022 12:00 - 4 minutes - 10.5 MBMedical practitioners of all specialties may lack Cassandra’s divinely inspired prophetic powers, but our training, research, and deep consideration for our patients’ wellbeing inform our prognostication. We hope that in this way, we are able to serve as guideposts along their ultimate paths. Judy Ch’ang, medical director of the Neurointensive Care Unit and assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and Clinical and Translational Neuroscience Unit at the Feil Family Brain and Mind ...
A Letter to Doctor William Schwab (on Mentorship…)
November 07, 2022 12:00 - 4 minutes - 11 MBMaybe this letter is more a letter to myself, a reminder … that mentorship is the key to training good, competent, humane surgeons. That this extra effort is what will create change, sustainability, and at the end of the pathway, is what will be remembered. That this is the type of person and surgeon I want to be. Adam Goldstein, director of the Trauma Surgery Unit at The Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel, writes a letter to Dr. William Schwab thanking him for his outstanding example...
Every Patient After
October 31, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 10.4 MBThe medical record from the day before includes a note from the chaplain who wrote that you smiled. I resolve to end more notes this way. The patient smiled. Medical student Molly Fessler reflects on the profound experience of caring for a patient during their final days. This essay placed second in the 2022 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest and was published in the November 2022 issue of Academic Medicine. Read the essay at academicmedicine.org.
Including Standardized Patients With Diverse Gender Identities in Simulation Cases
October 24, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutes - 81.7 MBGuests Luca Petrey and Laura Weingartner, PhD, MS, join hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee members Arianne Teherani, PhD, and Daniele Olveczky, MD, to discuss a new scoping review of the literature on the inclusion of standardized patient characters and actors with diverse gender identities in simulation cases. A transcript of this episode is available at academicmedicineblog.org. Read the articles discussed in this episode: Petrey LN, Noonan EJ, Weinga...
When You Smile at Misfortune
October 17, 2022 11:00 - 6 minutes - 8.74 MBIt is more likely emotional overload rather than apathy or insensitivity that prompts these contradictory expressions of emotion. An involuntary attempt to achieve a type of emotional homeostasis. Sadaf Qureshi, a hematologist/oncologist at Summit Health in Florham Park, New Jersey, reflects on “appropriate” responses to misfortune. The essay read in this episode was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the October 2022 issue of Academic Medicine. Read the essay at ac...
Reading Beyond the Medical Chart
October 10, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 6.56 MBSo often, we get caught up in studying and updating the medical chart. When we get to know our patients as human beings, however, we realize that providing care goes beyond triple-checking medication dosages. A human being is the product of every person, every success, and every misfortune he or she has encountered. Theodora Lananh Swenson, a fourth-year resident physician in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennes...
The Value of Hope
September 26, 2022 11:00 - 6 minutes - 8.7 MBI was glad that I was too tired to speak at the close of the day, because by listening, I learned a lesson in humility. Madam A’s family was more knowledgeable about her than we were, treating her as a person who had hopes just like the rest of us, despite being bedbound. Norshima Nashi, a consultant in the Division of Advanced Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the National University Health System in Singapore, reflects on the importance of preserving hope for patients, n...
Fostering Psychological Safety in the Clinical Learning Environment
September 19, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes - 72.2 MBGuests Addie McClintock, MD, and Joshua Jauregui, MD, join hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee members Andrea Leep, MD, and Paolo Martin, PhD, MS CHPR, MEd, to discuss clinical teachers’ behaviors and how they support or harm students’ sense of psychological safety in the clinical learning environment. This is the first episode in a 3-part series of discussions with RIME authors about their medical education research and its implications for the field. Rea...
How Is Residency? Life as a COVID-19 Intern
September 12, 2022 11:00 - 3 minutes - 6.05 MBAs I progress through my training, I see more clearly how I benefited from my intern year; my comfort with ventilator settings and ability to navigate goals-of-care discussions are a direct result of my pandemic cases. However, when I am asked how my residency has been, I am haunted by the memories of those who can no longer answer. Michelle I. Suh, a second-year resident in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, reflects on how her intern yea...
Nephrotic Nightmares
August 29, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 11.1 MBRemembering my own medical experiences is an insistent reminder that disease is not mundane, no matter how desensitized we may grow to it. Tom Fouché, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, reflects on his dual identities of provider and patient and how not keeping them separated makes him a better physician. The essay read in this episode was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the August 2022 iss...
Educating Physicians About Firearm Safety and Injury Prevention
August 22, 2022 12:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBGuests Katherine Hoops, MD, MPH, Andra Blomkalns, MD, MBA, and Allison Augustus-Wallace, PhD, MS, MNS, join host Toni Gallo to talk about firearm safety and injury prevention education. They discuss the role of physicians in engaging patients and communities in firearm injury risk reduction, the current state of firearm injury prevention education, and where the academic medicine community needs to go from here. Read the articles discussed in this episode: Hoops K, Fahimi J, Khoeur L, et...
Battle for the Faculty Soul
August 01, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 11.1 MBWhen faculty members open themselves up to the idea that the work we do in seemingly different realms can actually enhance our practice, we arguably do our greatest service to the development of others’ gardens. Sarah-Ann Keyes, assistant professor in the School of Health Professions at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, reflects on how difficult it can be for faculty members in academic medicine to balance clinical, educational, and scholarly work. The essay read in this epis...
The Light
July 18, 2022 11:00 - 5 minutes - 7.25 MBAfter this patient encounter, I came to realize that my greatest strength, my finest therapeutic tool, was me—all of me. Omar Sahak, a first-year fellow in the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California reflects on how sometimes the best way to help a patient is to be vulnerable with them. The essay read in this episode was published in the Teachi...
There is More to Thank You than Meets the Eye
July 04, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 10 MBNext time a patient thanks me, I will not let self-conscious worries diminish their words. True thankfulness reflects deep humanistic connection and is unburdened by the hierarchies of medicine. Paulina M. Devlin, a first-year obstetrics and gynecology resident at the University of Utah Health in Salt Lake City, Utah, reflects on the expression of gratitude between patients and providers. The essay read in this episode was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the July...
Including Nurses as Members of the Resident Education Team
June 20, 2022 11:55 - 22 minutes - 42.6 MBGuests Chirag Bhat, MD, and Warren Cheung, MD, MMEd, join hosts Toni Gallo and associate editor Teresa Chan, MD, MHPE, to discuss their research into nurses’ perspectives about giving feedback on residents’ clinical performance. They share their findings regarding the unique perspective nurses can offer, the barriers nurses face in providing feedback, and some possible ways to overcome these barriers. Read the article discussed in this episode: Bhat C, LaDonna K, Dewhirst S, et al. Unobser...
Ann's Final Gift
June 06, 2022 11:00 - 3 minutes - 9.74 MBDespite the emotional challenges that my anatomy course presented, I feel reaffirmed in my desire to pursue medicine and now understand the beautiful complexity of the human body in a way I never could have before. Keldon K. Lin, a second-year medical student at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in Scottsdale, Arizona, reflects on the common humanity that all patients, both living and dead, share with one another. The essay read in this episode was published in the Teaching and Lea...
Blue Footprints
May 23, 2022 11:00 - 5 minutes - 12.5 MBAs tears seeped from the corners of her eyes and stained her cheeks, I felt powerless. I reached for her hand, wishing I could offer my bare human hand instead of an impersonal blue latex glove. Holding her hand was the only thing I could do in the moment; I hoped it made her feel less alone. Natalie C. Spach, a fourth-year medical student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, reflects on the importance of physicians demonstra...
Physicians Who Do Not Listen to Patients Shame Our Profession
May 16, 2022 11:00 - 5 minutes - 12.7 MBThe resident came into my room with one question and he got it answered. The rest was not his problem. But it was my problem. Arthur Garson Jr, clinical professor of health systems and population health sciences in the College of Medicine at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, reflects on the importance of two-way communication between patients and physicians. The essay read in this episode was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the May 2022 issue of Academ...
Blind Spots
May 09, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 10.6 MBOur patients should not be our blind spots. Even with the most thorough routines, I may not catch important clues—be it some subtle discomfort or altered affect—without keen observation, clues that may drastically change a patient’s story and care. Alan Z. Yang, a second-year medical student at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, discusses the importance of observing and truly seeing a patient during a visit rather than focusing solely on standard interview questions and physi...
Empowering Trainees to be Leaders and Change Agents
April 25, 2022 11:00 - 47 minutes - 87.6 MBGuests Lala Forrest and Joe Geraghty join host Toni Gallo to discuss the journal’s Trainee Letters to the Editor feature. They highlight selected letters submitted in response to last year’s call for submissions about the role of trainees as agents of change and discuss how institutions can empower trainees to be leaders and how trainees can get started leading change efforts. Lala and Joe also introduce this year’s call about transformative moments in a trainee’s professional journey and d...
The Medical Student Turing Test
April 11, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 10.8 MBOur words and actions may strike others, or strike back at us, in unexpected ways. We must therefore always be ready to show our most human sides: to absorb surprising responses, lean into awkward moments, and apologize when we have erred. Aldis H. Petriceks, a third-year medical student at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, discusses the importance of setting aside the structure of the patient interview and embracing the patient as an authentic, living personality. The ess...
The Heart of Generalism
April 04, 2022 11:00 - 6 minutes - 14.1 MBIn the following months, I started noticing a subtle change in the way my patients and the community saw me. I went from being called the doctor to our doctor. Sharon Reece, assistant professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest in Fayetteville, Arkansas, reflects on what she learned during her immersion in rural generalism in northern Alberta, Canada. The essay read in this episode w...
Online Medical School: Unexpected Moments of Mentorship
March 21, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 11.6 MBThese golden minutes were not only setting a realtime example of intersecting roles and responsibilities but opening a window into a version of mentorship unique to virtual platforms, a kind of role-modeling that revealed granular moments of sacrifice, struggle, and negotiation. Yoshiko Iwai, a second-year medical student at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina reflects on Zoom mentorship and the art of juggling medical practice, research, teac...
Paging Dr. Valentine: Racism and Allyship in Internship
March 14, 2022 11:00 - 6 minutes - 14.3 MBIn the ensuing weeks, I continued with my work, behaving as if the incident had no impact on me while clamping down the embarrassment of being called a racial slur in front of my team. When others asked how I was doing, I said that I was fine in an attempt to make it go away. Takesha Valentine Cooper, program director of the Psychiatry Residency Training Program and chair of medical school admissions, equity advisor, and vice chair for education in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurosci...
Shame Experiences in Premedical and Medical Students
February 28, 2022 12:00 - 43 minutes - 80 MBGuests Will Bynum, MD, and Joe Jackson, MD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss new research into the nature of shame experiences in medical students and emerging work on the implications of premedical students' shame experiences for their professional development. They offer advice for educators and learners for naming, normalizing, and addressing the effects of shame and provide suggestions for fostering a safe, inclusive learning environment and a holistic admissions process that support lear...
“I need you to forgive yourself”: Shame in Medicine and Medical Education
February 21, 2022 12:00 - 45 minutes - 83.4 MBThis episode was originally released in August 2019. Guests Will Bynum, MD, Lara Varpio, PhD, and Ashley Adams, MD, join Toni Gallo and former Academic Medicine editor-in-chief David Sklar, MD, to discuss shame in medicine and medical education, what it is and isn't, how it can be studied, and their research and other work in this area. Read the articles discussed in this episode: Bynum WE IV, Adams AV, Edelman CE, Uijtdehaage S, Artino AR Jr, Fox JW. Addressing the elephant in the ro...
Language-Based Medicine
February 07, 2022 12:00 - 4 minutes - 10.5 MBUltimately, whether it is through language, a shared interest, or another shared commonality, finding ways to connect with our patients is an invaluable skill that can transform medicine from a science into an art. Avani M. Kolla, a fourth-year medical student at New York University Grossman School of Medicine in New York, New York, reflects on how language can act as a stepping stone to forming relationships between patients and providers. The essay read in this episode was published in...
In a Box
January 24, 2022 12:00 - 6 minutes - 13.9 MBI realized I never processed what I witnessed, experienced, and lived through. I put it all in a box so I could keep going to work. I sealed the box so that nothing could escape and distract me from the mission at hand: caring for critically ill patients. Amanda S. Xi, a critical care anesthesiologist in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, discusses how institutions can help trainees who experienced traum...
Eracism
January 17, 2022 12:00 - 3 minutes - 9.01 MBI choose to view this not as a story of bias against me, but instead of my attending’s patience and perseverance. His uncompromising kindness made the patient blind to his own preconceived notions. I try to be a role model for my own residents the way that he was for me. Deepa Danan, assistant professor and medical student clerkship director in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, reflects on remaining compassionate when caring for patients...
Talking With My Hands
January 10, 2022 12:00 - 4 minutes - 11.1 MBThe formative experience I had long sought emerged outside the context of feedback itself. I had spent my rotation in search of people who would change me, but I had not expected to find them dressed in johnnies rather than long white coats. Grace Ferri, a fourth-year medical student at Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts, reflects on the patient who helped her remember where she came from, and—most importantly—where she belonged, during a stressful day on the war...
New Constellations
December 27, 2021 12:00 - 7 minutes - 17 MBWith the mask muffling my voice and the omnipresent sound of monitor alarms, words too, were strained. I grew irate at the situation. The inability to talk. The inability to connect. The inability to touch. Graduate nursing student Hunter Marshall reflects on isolation and connection during the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic. This essay placed first in the 2021 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest and was published in the December 2021 issue of Academic Medicine. Read t...
Dear Reader
December 20, 2021 12:00 - 6 minutes - 14.4 MBEven in the age of medical miracles, there is still no intervention more powerful than a genuine human connection. There is no lab, no scan, no test, no drug, no surgery, that can replace it. For the soul heals not by human medicine, but human kindness. Medical student Ross Perry reflects on the most important lesson he learned while caring for a very special patient during his third year of medical school. This essay placed first in the 2021 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essa...
Nurses Encounter Diversity
December 13, 2021 12:00 - 5 minutes - 12.2 MBDementia does not rob the ears of joy. Recent nursing school graduate Anna Swartzlander remembers a patient with dementia who shared with her his love of music. This essay placed second in the 2021 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest and was published in the November 2021 issue of Academic Medicine. Read the essay at academicmedicine.org.
The Motherhouse
December 06, 2021 12:00 - 6 minutes - 15.1 MBWhy do I find it so much easier to deal with death after the fact than I do watching its slow, looming approach, like the shadow of a cloud creeping over my face? I think of cupping water between my hands, the spaces between fingers that I cannot hold tight. Medical student Davy Ran reflects on how their perspective on death has changed since they began medical school. This essay placed second in the 2021 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest and was published in the Nov...
Someone Else’s Mother
November 29, 2021 12:00 - 6 minutes - 14.2 MB“My time, energy, and focus are finite; one clear, properly motivated action will come at the cost of another. It is easy to think this means I will miss out on important moments, or that I may disappoint some for the benefit of others. But the antidote is to recognize that each experience is special.” Fourth-year medical student Fletcher Bell reflects on doctors’ overlapping duties to their patients and family. This essay placed third in the 2021 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare...
The Eco-Normalization Model: A New Framework for Evaluating Innovations
November 22, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutes - 60.8 MBGuest Deena Hamza, PhD, joins hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee member and assistant editor Dan Schumacher, MD, PhD, MEd, to discuss a new framework for evaluating innovations, including why and how this model was developed and the ways it can be used in medical education. This is the third episode in a 3-part series of discussions with RIME authors about their medical education research and its implications for the field. Find the complete 2021 RIME suppl...
Learning to Show Patients You are Listening From 3,000 Miles Away
November 15, 2021 12:00 - 5 minutes - 12 MBIt is often minute details such as the lack of internet, transportation, or a signature that can prevent people from completing an application for food stamps or the medication they need. By acknowledging patient experiences and reflecting on what we have heard, we can more effectively tailor the support we give to find patient-centered solutions. Katherine M. Kutzer, a recent graduate of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, reflects on her experience calling patients of a community ...
The Deliberate Practice of Caring
November 08, 2021 12:00 - 5 minutes - 12.7 MBJust like technical expertise, expert caring can be taught and deliberately practiced. As educators, we must study it, measure it, and build consensus on an ideal framework. And above all, we must value it, not only in medical students and doctors, but in everyone. Bonnie M. Miller, professor of medical education and administration at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee and senior director of scholarly communications at the Kern National Network for Caring and ...
Growing Trust in Patient-Physician Relationships
November 01, 2021 11:00 - 36 minutes - 69.7 MBGuest Richard Baron, MD, joins hosts Toni Gallo and deputy editor Colin West, MD, PhD, to discuss the importance of trust in patient-physician relationships and ways physicians can build trust and overcome mistrust with patients and communities, including in conversations about COVID-19. Read the article discussed in this episode: A Trust Initiative in Health Care: Why and Why Now? A transcript of this episode is available at academicmedicineblog.org.
Unspoken Challenges
October 18, 2021 11:00 - 6 minutes - 14.8 MB“The importance of fostering trust with families cannot be overstated, and effective communication techniques make up just one part of the complex puzzle. Body language is often considered to be the most important part of communication, but in extraordinary times, we had to rely on other tools such as tone of voice and content of speech.” Edwin Wei Sheng Thong, a senior resident in the Department of Haematology-Oncology at the National University Health System in Singapore, discusses the i...
Pregnancy Is Like Nature: Cultural Arts to Navigate the Unexpected Cesarean Delivery
October 11, 2021 11:00 - 5 minutes - 4.25 MB“Using my body to tell these cultural stories not only allowed for emotional mutability, but it also cultivated a sense of pride, identity, and autonomy. In dance, I was reminded that the body was not a victim of medical circumstance but an instrument rewriting the story in her own language through dance and music.” Shilpa Darivemula, a fourth-year obstetrics and gynecology resident at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, reflects on the importance of cultural arts...
Experiences of Trainees and Physicians from Minoritized Communities
October 04, 2021 11:00 - 45 minutes - 87.3 MBJoining hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee member Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, to discuss their research on the experiences of trainees and physicians from minoritized communities in the United States and Canada are Taryn Taylor, MD, MEd, Nicole Rockich-Winston, MS, PharmD, EdD, Tim Mickleborough, PhD, and Tina Martimianakis, PhD. They address creating safe and brave spaces to discuss bias and discrimination, how professional norms may be harmful to those from mi...
Learning the Lesson of Inaction
September 27, 2021 11:00 - 5 minutes - 12.7 MB“I have learned that no matter how much I study and practice, there will come a time when I cannot help—or, even worse, when my help is not wanted. While such moments do create the potential for moral distress, they also offer space for renewed motivation.” Pallavi Juneja is a first-year neurology resident at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York. She reflects on how her time at home as a fourth-year medical student during the pandemic made her more aware of her limitations...
Using Machine Learning in Residency Applicant Screening
September 20, 2021 11:00 - 42 minutes - 82.1 MBGuest Jesse Burk-Rafel, MD, MRes, joins hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee member Mahan Kulasegaram, PhD, to discuss the development of a decision support tool that incorporates machine learning and the use of that tool in residency applicant screening. They also talk about the residency application process and potential ways that artificial or augmented intelligence (AI) might mitigate current challenges. This is the first episode in a 3-part series of dis...
Embracing Vulnerability
September 13, 2021 11:00 - 5 minutes - 11.7 MB"Holding his hand, we had been alone in a room fighting a virus with no cure. Though he lay prone and I stood standing, we were equals in our fear in facing overwhelming unknowns. Neither of us knew what would happen over the next few hours or days." Eric Kutscher, a resident physician in the Department of Internal Medicine at NYU Langone Health in New York, learned how to maintain dignity in vulnerability from a special patient while working in the intensive care unit at the height of the...
Advice from a Master Peer Reviewer
September 06, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutes - 68.4 MBThis episode was originally released in August 2018. Guest Carl Stevens, MD, MPH, joins hosts Toni Gallo and former editor-in-chief David Sklar, MD, to discuss the peer review process. Carl is a 10-time winner of the journal’s Excellence in Reviewing Award. He shares his reasons for serving as a peer reviewer and his process for evaluating submissions, including practical advice about the logistics of completing a review and what he looks for in a submission. This episode is meant to be a ...
Finding Light in the Uncertain
August 30, 2021 11:00 - 4 minutes - 10.9 MB"Our patients and their families are living that one-in-a-thousand life. Even if focusing on rarity helps us cope with the unpredictability of our own pregnancies and of the world in pandemic, rarity cannot protect us from the truth that the terrible is possible." Katharine Callahan is a neonatology fellow, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and an ELSI genomics fellow, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Salazar is a neonatology fell...
Three Words
August 23, 2021 11:00 - 4 minutes - 11.2 MB“So, when I step back and think about the most important lesson I have learned in medical school, it is to have the courage to speak up when I am struggling.” Fourth-year medical student, Michelle M. Ikoma, describes how honoring vulnerability over shame allows her to speak up for her true feelings and get the help she needs to maneuver challenging times. This essay was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the May 2021 issue of Academic Medicine. Read the essay at aca...