Beyond the White Coat
34 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -At the heart of academic medicine are the individuals—medical students, residents, faculty, practicing physicians, and leaders—who provide unparalleled care to patients & communities across the country and are at the cutting edge of medical research advances. The Beyond the White Coat podcast shares these unique individuals’ stories while diving into issues affecting the academic medicine community at-large.
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Ask An Expert ... About Transforming the Residency Application Process
April 12, 2024 16:00 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBThe AAMC made significant strides in innovation through its collaboration with Thalamus, as well as enhancements to the MyERAS® application, expansion of the Fee Assistance Program, and introduction of new tools like the Dean’s Office WorkStation Analytics for Schools. Additional positive developments include streamlined program management, and reduced application costs. Further advancements include full integration of Thalamus Core for interview scheduling, holistic review scoring, enhanced ...
Why aren’t there more disabled doctors?
March 19, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBJoin us this week on “Beyond the White Coat” to talk about a group that is often forgotten about when we talk about diversity: people with disabilities. Guests Allison Kessler, MD, and Lisa Meeks, PhD, along with host AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, discuss why the number of disabled doctors continues to lag behind other underrepresented groups and what individuals and schools can do to help be more inclusive of those with disabilities. Stream wherever you get your podcasts.
Ask an Expert About … Virtual Community Building
February 20, 2024 21:18 - 29 minutes - 27 MBAs director of community relations and strategy at the AAMC, Penny Schnarrs does more than just support the AAMC Virtual Community. She is leading the charge to create positive and impactful change for AAMC constituents by providing a space for collaboration and community building. Tune in to this episode of “Ask an Expert” to learn more from Schnarrs about her work and why the AAMC Virtual Community is the place for people who want to collaborate across medical education.
The Case for Bringing Your Mental Health to Work
January 30, 2024 17:42 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBNote: This episode contains a discussion about suicide and suicidality. Doctors have some of the best access to mental health resources, yet they have nearly double the risk of suicide when compared to non-health care workers. On this week’s episode of “Beyond the White Coat,” host AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, talks to Justin Bullock, MD, MPH, and Yunyu Xiao, PhD, about the stigmas that surround mental health in the medical profession and how those stigmas trickle down into...
Ask an Expert … About Health Care Workforce Shortages
January 10, 2024 15:10 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBOn this week’s episode of “Ask an Expert,” Michael Dill, director of Workforce Studies at the AAMC, answers questions about physician burnout, its effect on patient care, and the potential impact on future physicians in creating a more sustainable health care workforce.
“Caring for Caregivers: Tackling Burnout, Costs, and Shortages in Health Care”
December 12, 2023 15:27 - 46 minutes - 43.3 MBOn the latest episode of “Beyond the White Coat,” join AAMC president and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, along with Susan Huang, MD, CEO of Providence Health Network, and LaTonya Trotter, PhD, MPH, associate professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, for a candid conversation addressing unprecedented levels of staff burnout, the staggering impact of rising prescription drug costs, and the nationwide crisis of staff shortages. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts.
Ask an Expert … About Free Speech
November 21, 2023 14:38 - 10 minutes - 9.5 MBOn this week’s episode of “Ask an Expert,” Boyle joins us to share his story of when he fell in love with writing, his evolution from newspaper to nonprofit reporting, and the ongoing challenges of free speech on medical school campuses.
What Can We Learn From 2,500 Years of Debate Around Free Speech?
October 31, 2023 17:56 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBFree speech might be a hot topic right now, but this isn’t the first time it’s been in the news. For almost 2,500 years, free speech has been hotly debated among politicians, scholars, and average citizens across continents and cultures. What can we learn from millennia of debates? This week on “Beyond the White Coat,” we’re joined by Jacob Mchangama — CEO of the Future of Free Speech Project and featured speaker at Learn Serve Lead 2023: The AAMC Annual Meeting — to discuss not only what we ...
A Conversation With Ted Shaw
October 19, 2023 18:16 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBOn this special edition of “Beyond the White Coat” constitutional law expert Ted Shaw and AAMC Chief Legal Officer Frank Trinity, JD, talk about the Supreme Court’s recent ban on race-conscious admissions. Shaw is a civil rights attorney and director of the University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights, one of two institutions at the center of the court’s decision. Previously at the University of Michigan, Shaw helped initiate a review of the university’s admissions policy that was lat...
Ask an Expert … About Holistic Review and Admissions
October 10, 2023 18:41 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBAmy Addams is the director of student affairs alignment and holistic review at the AAMC. In this role, she helps medical schools use holistic review to examine and revise admission processes to create a more equitable path to medicine. She also leads the AAMC’s work in improving equity and access for medical students and patients with disabilities. On this episode of “Ask an Expert,” Addams answers questions about the current role holistic review plays in the admissions process, the future...
Shaping Tomorrow: Race-Conscious Admissions and Society
September 26, 2023 19:40 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBThis episode of “Beyond the White Coat” continues the topic of race-conscious admissions, this time examining the social and advisory impacts of one of the most pressing issues in higher education today. Host AAMC President and CEO and President David J. Skorton, MD, welcomes special guests Joon Kim, EdD, senior program director of postbaccalaureate programs at the Keck Graduate Institute, and Kyra Tyler, MEd, senior director of Bright Horizons College Coach, as they explore the concept of eq...
Ask an Expert About … Creating a More Diverse Medical Workforce
September 12, 2023 15:59 - 8 minutes - 7.8 MBGeoffrey Young, PhD, has spent most of his career in academic medicine, both as an associate student affairs dean and an associate admissions dean, working with students from the start of their time in medical school to their graduation. At the AAMC, he is the senior director of transforming the health care workforce, focusing on creating a more diverse workforce in medicine and providing resources for students who are interested in a career in medicine. On this inaugural mini episode of “Ask...
Shades of Opportunity: Exploring Race-Conscious Admissions
August 29, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes - 50 MBJoin us for a discussion on one of the most complex topics in higher education today: race-conscious admissions. In Part 1 of this two-part episode, we delve into the legal aftermath of the recent Supreme Court decisions (SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC); the use of race as a factor in college and graduate school admissions; and how the recent court decision will affect creating more equitable and diverse medical school student bodies. AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, is joined i...
At the Crossroads: Public Health and Gun Violence
June 01, 2022 18:30 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBIn the latest episode of “Beyond the White Coat,” AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, and Roger A. Mitchell Jr., MD, chair of the Department of Pathology at Howard University College of Medicine, have a compelling and informative discussion on gun violence as a public health crisis and how the academic medicine community can come together to address prevention.
VaccineVoices: Promoting Equity in Vaccine Access
May 28, 2021 13:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBOn this episode of “Beyond the White Coat,” Karey Sutton, PhD, AAMC director of health equity research workforce and director of research for the AAMC Center for Health Justice, talks with experts Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, and Aaron Gerstenmaier, MD, about the racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 vaccination rates and explores strategies to promote equity in vaccine access. Episode Guests: Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, is a Kenan distinguished professor of the Departments of Social Me...
VaccineVoices: COVID-19 Vaccine Myths Debunked
May 14, 2021 13:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBOn this episode of “Beyond the White Coat,” Rosha McCoy, MD, AAMC senior director for advancing clinical leadership and quality, talks with health care providers and experts to debunk common myths and share accurate information about the COVID-19 vaccines as part of the nation’s efforts to increase vaccinations and end the pandemic. Episode Guests Earic Bonner, MD, is an internal medicine physician at Vidant Internal Medicine in Edenton, North Carolina. He also works at Vidant Chowan Hospi...
VaccineVoices: Talking to Health Care Personnel About Getting Vaccinated
April 30, 2021 13:00 - 40 minutes - 36.6 MBScience is the only way out of the pandemic. And while health care personnel were the first group in the United States to be offered the vaccines, many of these individuals remain unconvinced and unprotected. In this episode, AAMC Chief Health Care Officer Janis Orlowski, MD, talks with Houston Methodist President and CEO Marc Boom, MD, and Memorial Hermann Health System President and CEO David Callender, MD, about the challenges health care systems are experiencing in trying to ensure their...
A Look Ahead: AAMC 2021 Advocacy and Policy Priorities
April 14, 2021 13:00 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBIn a new episode of the “Beyond the White Coat” podcast, David J. Skorton, MD, AAMC president and CEO, talks with guests about how the academic medicine community can educate lawmakers about the issues that will help their institutions continue to serve their patients and communities. Guests include Karen Fisher, JD, AAMC chief public policy officer; Jim Leary, JD, vice president of government and community relations for UMass Memorial Health Care and co-chair of the AAMC Government Relation...
Black Men in Medicine: Meeting the Challenge | Beyond the White Coat: Making the Rounds
April 06, 2021 13:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBClarence Fluker talks with three guests about the alarming absence of Black men in medicine: Norma Poll-Hunter, PhD, senior director of the AAMC’s workforce diversity portfolio; Malcolm Woodland, PhD, co-founder and director of Young Doctors DC; and André Smith, a student studying for his master’s degree in health sciences at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, and a member of the Action Collaborative for Black Men in Medicine steering committee sponsored by the AAMC and the Nat...
Racism Under the Microscope
January 14, 2021 14:00 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBWe’ve known for a long time that systemic racism influences the social determinants of health — affecting, quite literally, who in this country survives and who suffers. People who live in poorer neighborhoods often receive lower quality and less care from health care providers. And long-standing discrimination against all marginalized communities has created dramatic health inequities. David J. Skorton, MD, looks back at some of the conversations we had about these very difficult and persis...
Do No Harm: Racism in Patient Care
December 17, 2020 14:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBExamples of bias in the delivery of health care are rampant. In this episode of “Beyond the White Coat,” AAMC Senior Director of Health Equity Partnerships and Programs Malika Fair, MD, MPH, speaks with Laura Guidry-Grimes, PhD; Brian Gittens, EdD; Carol Major, MD; and Charles Vega, MD, to explore how academic medicine can move toward more equitable care for all and to dive deeper into how we prepare and train the physicians of tomorrow to be allies for everyone. Episode Guests: Carol Majo...
Challenges in Hospice Care: Connecting With Joseph’s House | Beyond the White Coat: Making the Rounds
December 04, 2020 14:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBProviding hospice and respite care for the homeless is tough in the best of times, but it’s especially difficult during a pandemic. Staff members at Joseph’s House, a nonprofit organization that provides a respite and hospice care for people experiencing homelessness, are constantly figuring out new and creative ways to help the population they serve with limited resources or resources that aren’t designed to truly serve marginalized and vulnerable people. In this episode of “Beyond the Whit...
Persevering During a Pandemic: Connecting With So Others Might Eat | Beyond the White Coat: Making the Rounds
November 20, 2020 14:00 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBSandeep Sharma, MD, practices internal medicine at So Others Might Eat (SOME), an interfaith community-based organization that helps the poor and people experiencing homelessness in our nation's capital. The times are especially hard for the homeless patients at SOME’s medical clinic who are navigating a new world dominated by a deadly virus. Dr. Sharma and his colleagues struggle to find and work with these patients while sticking to safety measures meant to protect everyone from COVID-19. ...
Housing is Health: Connecting with Miriam’s Kitchen | Beyond the White Coat: Making the Rounds
November 13, 2020 14:00 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBAs a fundamental right, housing security is one of the basic means through which people can protect their families and communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. But, as the pandemic rages on and its economic impact becomes more dire, nonprofit organizations with missions dedicated to ending homelessness expect an exponential increase in housing insecurity across the United States. In this episode of “Beyond the White Coat: Making the Rounds,” AAMC Director of Community Engagement Clarence Fl...
Future MD: A Prescription for Addressing Racism in Medical Education
November 12, 2020 14:00 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBIn this episode of “Beyond the White Coat,” Geoffrey Young, PhD, AAMC senior director of student affairs and programs, speaks with Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, a fourth-year medical student at Yale School of Medicine, on his experience as a learner and as an advocate for racial equity and equality in medical education and health care. Nguemeni Tiako gives his perspective on racism in medical education and his work writing the “White Coat and a Hoodie” column and producing the “Flip the Script”...
Racism and Medical Education: Telling the Full Story
October 15, 2020 13:36 - 39 minutes - 36 MBThe history of medicine is filled with amazing scientific discoveries and remarkable innovation, but the profession is also haunted by a history of structural oppression and exclusionary practices that act as barriers for people of color. This history influences the policies, practices, and procedures that govern how physicians are trained in the United States today. In this episode of “Beyond the White Coat,” AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, speaks with AAMC Chief Diversity and ...
Diagnosing our National Disease
September 17, 2020 13:08 - 34 minutes - 32 MBAcademic medicine is taking a hard look at its role in the long-standing systemic and institutional racism that Black Americans have faced when engaging with teaching hospitals, medical schools, and research programs — an experience that historically has fostered distrust of medicine and health care within the Black community. David J. Skorton, MD, AAMC president and CEO, talks with Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, about how the history of racism in medical scho...
Racial Health Disparities: How COVID-19 Magnified a Public Health Emergency
June 24, 2020 13:52 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBThe COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the health disparities in America’s communities of color in such dramatic fashion that racism is now seen as a public health emergency. In the season finale of “Beyond the White Coat,” David Skorton, MD, AAMC president and CEO, and Malika Fair, MD, MPH, senior director of health equity partnerships and programs at the AAMC, discuss what forces are driving the disparities in health care access, how physicians can work to acknowledge and address racism agai...
Exploring the Future of Health Care Policy After COVID-19: A Conversation with Sen. Roy Blunt
May 29, 2020 13:00 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBIn this two-part episode series, David Skorton, MD, AAMC president and CEO, talks with Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Rep. Donna Shalala (D-Fla.) about how health care policy will change for patients, the research community, and the workforce in the wake of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Episode Guest: Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) serves as Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. He also chairs the Senate Rules Committee and serves on the Senate ...
Exploring the Future of Health Care Policy After COVID-19: A Conversation with Rep. Donna Shalala
May 29, 2020 13:00 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBIn this two-part episode, David Skorton, MD, AAMC president and CEO, talks with Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Rep. Donna Shalala (D-Fla.) about how health care policy will change for patients, the research community, and the workforce in the wake of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Episode Guest: Rep. Donna Shalala (D-Fla.) is an advocate for women’s rights, civil rights, increased access to health care, better education and public schools, and a clean and sustainable environment. She is the lon...
Preserving Wellbeing in a Pandemic
May 15, 2020 14:32 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBIn this week’s episode of “Beyond the White Coat,” David J. Skorton, MD, AAMC president and CEO, talks with Jonathan Ripp, MD, MPH, senior associate dean for well-being and resilience and chief wellness officer at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, about how we can care for ourselves, and others, in the era of COVID-19. Episode Guest: Jonathan Ripp, MD, MPH is Professor of Medicine, Medical Education and Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Senior Associate Dean for Well-Being and...
A Pivotal Moment for Science: A Conversation with Dr. Francis Collins
May 01, 2020 14:20 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBOn this week’s episode of “Beyond the White Coat,” David J. Skorton, MD, AAMC president and CEO, talks with Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), about the NIH’s newly announced RADx initiative, the importance of public-private partnerships, the important of basic research, and more. Episode Guest: Francis Collins, MD, PhD, is the 16th Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In this role, Dr. Collins oversees the work of the largest sup...
Accelerating Transformation in Times of Crisis
April 24, 2020 13:37 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBAmerica’s medical schools and teaching hospitals, and their dedicated teams of physicians, nurses, and scientists, and other health care professionals have been at the forefront of addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. Their selflessness and bravery have been truly awe-inspiring as they’ve worked tirelessly to save lives. And yet, this pandemic has laid bare so many fault lines in our health care systems – so many areas where we can and must do better – as a community and as a nation. On this w...
Who Gets That Ventilator? Bioethics in the Era of COVID
April 10, 2020 12:30 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBAAMC Chief Scientific Officer Ross McKinney, Jr., MD, and Arthur R. Derse, MD, JD, FACEP, director of the Medical College of Wisconsin Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, join AAMC President and CEO David Skorton, MD, in this engaging podcast discussion that explores the emerging clinical guidelines that inform rationing of care and equipment and the inherent challenges of balancing bioethics with health equity. Full transcript available on SimpleCast or via the AAMC's website. Ep...