Mar 12

The Med School Traditions That Make Lifelong Bonds

Building community through experiences Tradition is a big part of medical school–med students willingly tie themselves to comedy shows, charity 5Ks, and yearly ceremonies when they’re already drowning in anatomy and mechanisms of health and disease. This episode pulls back the cu ... Show More

55m 59s

Mar 5

Things You Can Do To Prepare for Med School (and One Thing You Shouldn’t!)

Prioritize Fun! What should you do with the time between getting accepted to medical school and orientation week? Fallon Jung, Anna Royer, Jonah Albrecht, and Charis Edwards tell their stories about finding out they got in (including one bathroom cry session and a Colorado NICU c ... Show More

50m 27s

Feb 26

Choosing a Professional Identity: Beyond Medical School Classes

How medical schools help students figure out what kind of doctor they’ll be. Looking at medical school and wondering what you’ll actually *do* with all that training? Like, you know you’ll doctor…but in what way? What will that look like for you? Luckily, most schools have someth ... Show More

53m 25s

Oct 2020

Roll On: Meditations On The Moderation Wars

Welcome to another edition of Roll On—my bi-monthly deep dive into (semi) current events, topics of audience interest, and of course answers to your questions. Commanding co-host duties as always is my hype man Adam Skolnick, an activist and veteran journalist perhaps best known ... Show More

2h 5m

Nov 2021

Inside JABA #9: Applied and Translational Research in Healthcare

In the ninth installment of the Inside JABA Series, I'm joined by Drs. Claire St. Peter, Jeff Tiger, and many-time guest Derek Reed. Unfortunately the JABA Editor in Chief, Dr. Linda LeBlanc, was not able to join us, but she did choose some very cool articles for us to talk about ... Show More

1h 17m

Jan 2024

Our Little Stupid Bodies

Sometimes a seemingly silly question gets stuck in your craw and you can’t shake the feeling that something big lies behind it. We are constantly collecting these kinds of questions from our listeners, not to mention piling up a storehouse of our own “stupid” questions, as we ... Show More

55m 39s

Feb 2023

Is There Any Hope For Us? Maybe. More Will Be Revealed.

In this final episode of season two, we answer the central question from episode one: is there any hope? Okay, well we don’t answer it. But we do review what we’ve learned. Turns out, everyone has an opinion about hope - from the creative to the bleak to the functional. Maybe one ... Show More

24m 33s

Jun 2018

Michael Pollan: Psychedelics, Science, Fear and Hope.

<a href="https://michaelpollan.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Michael Pollan</a> is the author most recently of mega New York Times bestseller, <a href="https://amzn.to/2JoWYUE" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Change Your Min ... Show More

55m 12s

Jul 2020

How to decipher a research paper

Nutrition is based on science. And while the science may not always agree and even change over time, just like all scientific fields of research, without credible research to inform your views you are really just flying blind in the wind at the mercy of feelpinions and what your ... Show More

30m 45s

Feb 2021

The science of relationships, with Gary Lewandowski, PhD

For psychologists, romance, attraction and love are not just the stuff of poetry – they’re also a subject for research. What are the qualities of a successful relationship? Why do some relationships endure while others fail? What do we gain from our relationships? How do we know ... Show More

23m 33s

Feb 2024

G: The World's Smartest Animal

This episode begins with a rant. This rant, in particular, comes from Dan Engber - a science writer who loves animals but despises animal intelligence research. Dan told us that so much of the way we study animals involves tests that we think show a human is smart ... not the ... Show More

50m 20s

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