Medicine isn’t always kind to its disabled practitioners, but let’s change that.
In 2023, a group of Iowa med students founded our chapter of the Medical Students With Disabilities and Chronic Illness, a group “working to remove barriers for students and professionals with disabilities, increasing representation of diverse perspectives i ... Show More
Apr 16
"Ego Death?!" M4s Talk Audition Rotations
How Away Rotations play into getting that dream residency Among all the strange things about medical school, there’s the so-called “away” or “audition” rotation. Recently matched M4s Aditi Katwala, Hend Al-Kaylani, Lena Volfson, and Kristin Davis talk about what it’s like to leav ... Show More
1h 12m
Apr 9
What are Med Students Reading: Book Club!
If reading makes better docs, these guys will be incredible. What if the cure for doctor-speak was actually just… reading more books? This week M1s Anna Royer, Sophia Hueser, Gwen Sewell, and Ellie Johnson have a genuinely great conversation about what it means to be a reader in ... Show More
54m 56s
Jul 2021
Episode 188: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 10 – Counterspaces in Medicine: Creating Safe Spaces and Redefining Value
In this episode, we invite the powerful sister duo Oni Blackstock, MD, MHS and Uché Blackstock, MD to share their experiences on leaving public health and academia to become social entrepreneurs, creating their own organizations in health equity. Episode Learning Objectives After ... Show More
56m 16s
Jul 2014
Medicine 3.0: What Got Us Here Ain’t Gonna Get Us There
<p>If the body is a whole, connected system, why does modern medicine so often treat it as a calamity of isolated causes, effects and symptoms?</p><p>A blend of hippie herbalist, science prodigy, <a href="http://avivaromm.com/books" target="_blank">bestselling author</a> and Yale ... Show More
1h 5m
Aug 2020
The Science Behind Spontaneous Healing
In the medical community, miraculous recoveries are typically dismissed as flukes and outliers. Because they can’t be explained within the constructs of typical modern care, they end up in the dustbin. But some doctors, like today’s guest Jeffrey Rediger, MD, believe that this is ... Show More
46m 35s