Latest Trainees Podcast Episodes
There Is Always a Lesson
Academic Medicine Podcast - June 24, 2024 11:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsAs I enter my final year of medical school reflecting on how I plan to care for patients, I will remember the importance of seeing the patient as a whole person just as my preceptor did that day. In doing so, I hope that my future relationships with patients can flourish because they are based o...
Putting Learners in the Driver's Seat for the Next Era of Assessment and Precision Education
Academic Medicine Podcast - June 10, 2024 11:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsKayla Marcotte, MS, Jose Negrete Manriquez, MD, MPP, Maya Hunt, MD, Max Spadafore, MD, and Dan Schumacher, MD, PhD, MEd, join host Toni Gallo to discuss the role of learners in building the future state of assessment; the importance of having a patient-focused, learner-centered, equity-based sys...
Near Naked Vulnerability
Academic Medicine Podcast - May 20, 2024 11:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsWe must find the moments in medical education where we all can be models of thoughtful exposure, risking vulnerability and emphasizing our shared humanity—even with our clothes on. Gretchen A. Case and Karly Pippitt reflect on a body painting session they led to teach medical students the valu...
Celebrating Pride Month with Career Development Advice for LGBTQ+ Hematology Trainees
Hematopoiesis: An ASH Trainee Council Production - May 10, 2024 16:14 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this Pride Month-themed episode of Hematopoiesis, Drs. Emily Liang, Ajay Major, Michael Hochman, and Shail Maingi discuss career development, community building, and navigating the workforce for LGBTQ+ trainees in hematology.
Presence With Patients is a Gift: Building Meaningful Patient Relationships
Academic Medicine Podcast - April 30, 2024 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsKatherine Chretien, MD, Grant Wilson, MD, and Michelle York, MD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss building meaningful relationships with patients, the small but impactful ways they show their patients they care, and the important role that learners play in connecting with patients and contributin...
What Cancer Did Not Teach Me
Academic Medicine Podcast - April 01, 2024 11:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsFor those who do excellent work, but quietly, and sometimes under the radar, the simple phrase, confidently stated—“You are in good hands”—can make all the difference. You got this. Shailaja J. Hayden reflects on the importance of inspiring confidence in fellow members of the care team, which ...
Our Achilles’ Heel: Vulnerability and Medical Uncertainty
Academic Medicine Podcast - March 18, 2024 11:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsRather than sheltering me from the rigors of doctoring, the museum has deepened my relationship to medicine by restoring its inherent mystery. It reminds me that the reality of our patients will always exceed our understanding of them. Kain Kim reflects on how teaching the humanities can help ...
Pain, Palliative Care, and Practicing Empathy
Academic Medicine Podcast - March 04, 2024 12:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsThrough all the time I had known him, and through all the rounds and presentations, many voices were heard: my own, my senior resident, my attending, the ICU team, the consult teams, the family. But the softest voice, often overcome by dysphonia, came from the bed at the center of the room, and ...
Language Equity in Medical Education
Academic Medicine Podcast - February 20, 2024 12:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsPilar Ortega, MD, MGM, Débora Silva, MD, MEd, and Bright Zhou, MD, MS, join host Toni Gallo to discuss strategies to address language-related health disparities and enhance language-appropriate training and assessment in medical education. They explore one specific language concordant education ...
A Familiar Question
Academic Medicine Podcast - February 05, 2024 12:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsI started this letter with a question, but I pray not for an answer. I cannot accept one. Instead, please give me the strength to replace the wet mask soaked in my tears. Give me the power to continue the Sisyphean task of treating your ill and moving on to the next patient, especially on days l...
Seeing Death for the First Time
Academic Medicine Podcast - January 22, 2024 12:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsAs medical students, we know of death. We study anatomy through cadaver lab, we memorize mortality rates of diseases, and we hear stories from our professors about their late patients. But most of us do not know death yet. Carlin E. Zaprowski reflects on the difficulty of losing patients and e...
The Closeted Curriculum
Academic Medicine Podcast - January 15, 2024 12:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsI 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...
Biopsy
Academic Medicine Podcast - January 08, 2024 12:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsWhat if I had not been at an academic institution, with a learner and a supervising teacher? Whose steadying hand would have been on my leg? I needed that hand. Katherine C. Chretien reflects on undergoing a procedure that taught her that together, teachers and learners bring value to patient ...
The Window
Academic Medicine Podcast - January 01, 2024 12:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsWhen we really love it, we lend a little bit of ourselves, a little bit of our souls to the work that we do—to the art of nursing. If it is not us today, then it may be us tomorrow, and I hope that someone will be there to tell me what my view is like outside my window, too. Doctor of nursing ...
I See You
Academic Medicine Podcast - December 18, 2023 12:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsPsychiatry was going to require all of me... To see the human body as more than machine. Yes, the heart is a pump, and our neurons entangle one another in electrical circuits. Medicine, however, transcends the physiological being. Third-year medical student Riley Plett reflects on a transforma...
Do What You Do Better: Using AI Tools to Ease the Workload Burden on Faculty
Academic Medicine Podcast - December 13, 2023 12:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsChristy Boscardin, PhD, Brian Gin, MD, PhD, Marc Triola, MD, and Academic Medicine assistant editor Gustavo Patino, MD, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss the ways that artificial intelligence (AI) tools can help ease the workload burden on faculty and staff, with a focus on assessment and adm...
The Nail Salon
Academic Medicine Podcast - December 04, 2023 12:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsAs Mr. D. stood up and attempted a few steps, tears of joy went down his cheeks. He was now free from the claws that were making his life miserable. This was much more important to him than talking about labs, medications, or dietary changes. Medical student Federico Erhart reflects on a patie...
The Unspoken Language of Compassion
Academic Medicine Podcast - November 20, 2023 12:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsIn our suffering, sadness, and silence, we shared a language of humanity and we exchanged compassion ... It is this vulnerability, this deep and genuine connection that allows us to communicate across cultures and to feel the exchange of humanity. Master of Science in Nursing student Leah Roth...
Put Some Gloves On
Academic Medicine Podcast - November 13, 2023 12:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsAs I traverse the many years of medical training ahead of me, I will undoubtedly remember my week in anesthesiology, and commit to passing on my knowledge to future students with the same patience and trust that was afforded to me by Dr. S. Sumedha Attanti reflects on the preceptor who gave he...
That Was Terrible: Public Humiliation in Preclinical Education
Academic Medicine Podcast - November 06, 2023 12:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsI tell my students that we are constellations of our peers, mentors, and patients. What we learn from each other in preclinical education—spanning not just facts and answers, but also how we treat each other—will shape the future of medicine. Brian R. Smith reflects on creating a learning cult...
Faculty Perspectives on Responding to Microaggressions Targeting Clerkship Students
Academic Medicine Podcast - October 31, 2023 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsMeghan O’Brien, MD, MBE, and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee members Tasha Wyatt, PhD, and Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss new research into faculty perspectives on responding to microaggressions targeting medical students in the clinical learning environm...
Faculty and Student Perceptions of Unauthorized Collaborations
Academic Medicine Podcast - October 24, 2023 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsCarrie Chen, MD, PhD, Terry Kind, MD, MPH, and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee members Cha-Chi Fung, PhD, and Daniele Ölveczky, MD, MS, join host Toni Gallo to discuss new research into faculty and student perceptions of unauthorized collaborations. They discuss several tensions i...
Learner Perspectives on the Learner Handover Process
Academic Medicine Podcast - October 16, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsTammy Shaw, MD, MMed, and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee member Arianne Teherani, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss new research into learner perspectives on the learner handover process. They discuss the role of trust in this process, the potential for bias, the purpose of ha...
The Momentum of Human Kindness
Academic Medicine Podcast - October 09, 2023 11:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsI am not sure whether she attended my graduation, but her words were with me then and have remained with me throughout my decade-long career. Each time I have wanted to quit nursing, I hear her voice and recall her words of encouragement. Perioperative nurse and Master of Science in nursing ...
The Gift of Grief
Academic Medicine Podcast - October 02, 2023 11:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsWe come into medicine wanting to heal our patients, believing that we are here solely to help them. But I could not heal my patient. Instead, my patient healed me. Fourth-year medical student Emily Otiso reflects on a patient who reminded her that connection is the soul of her work. This ...
Ensuring Fairness in Medical Education Assessment
Academic Medicine Podcast - September 18, 2023 11:05 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsThis episode is a companion to the August 2023 Ensuring Fairness in Medical Education Assessment supplement, which was sponsored by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. The supplement focuses on creating an optimal, equitable system of learner assessment. In this episode, Holly Humphrey, MD, presid...
When the Student Gave Me Feedback
Academic Medicine Podcast - September 04, 2023 11:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsOn a Thursday afternoon in clinic, in a situation made for learning, not grading, my learner taught me the essence of effective formative feedback. And for that lesson, I am forever grateful. Belinda Fu reflects on a student who taught her that helpful feedback must have formative simplicity. ...
Pink Toenails on a Tuesday
Academic Medicine Podcast - August 21, 2023 11:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsThe next day, I knocked on the door of Room 412 armed with a bottle of baby blue nail polish. Not an elixir, but an oath—to face the unknown together, to sit with the uncomfortable silence, and to meet her in the middle, wherever that may be. Meher Kalkat reflects on accepting the messiness of...
A Note to My Daughters
Academic Medicine Podcast - August 07, 2023 11:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 43 ratingsThere will be a day when you are overlooked. You are not chosen. You will have worked hard, put in the time, been the next in line, and been ready, eager, and energetic to give it a whirl and still you are told no. Molly Uhlenhake gives her daughters advice on moving forward and continuing on ...
Caring for Older Adults with Blood Disorders: An Introduction to Geriatric Hematology
Hematopoiesis: An ASH Trainee Council Production - July 25, 2023 17:48 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsTune in to the Hematopoiesis podcast to hear a conversation about the increasingly relevant topic of geriatric hematology. Many blood disorders and hematologic malignancies are diseases of older adults, and in this introduction to geriatric hematology, Drs. Maya Abdallah and Ajay Major ...