Prayer and Care: Faith as a Form of Culturally Competent Care
Faith is relevant to the clinical interaction when it gives patients and clinicians a shared ground upon which to stand in the midst of chaos, and my experience … showed me that spirituality can effec...
6 Mars 20234min
Prayers and Tuna Melts
When we form enriched relationships, we allow ourselves to feel grief for the patients we lose, and likewise, joy for the patients who leave healthier than when they arrived. Zarin I. Rahman reflects ...
27 Feb 20234min
What's On Your Plate? Culinary Medicine as an Innovative Nutrition Education Model
Guests Courtney Newman and Jaclyn Albin, MD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss culinary medicine and its role in teaching nutrition, nutrition counseling, and hands-on cooking skills to medical students...
20 Feb 202340min
Genetics Lessons From Rare Patients
Every now and then, a patient will bring me new insights and knowledge, such as lessons on rare diseases that I would not have learned if I had not seen them in person. These rare patients … instilled...
13 Feb 20235min
Medicine Where it Matters
Medical students … need to build out reality-based curricula that equip future physicians to provide trauma-informed, harm-reductionist care. Patients need to be addressed in their context. Perhaps to...
6 Feb 20236min
The Sound of My Voice
On this remarkable day, however, it was clear. This woman knew who I was, months later and from only the sound of my voice, proving to me for the first time how our small actions can have a large impa...
30 Jan 20235min
Seeing Color
As faculty, we are called to instruct and mentor students. And yet ... B, my colleagues, and friends of color have taught me lessons of far greater importance. Sara B. Police, assistant professor and ...
23 Jan 20234min
Learning Curve
My experience that night in the ICU was the wake-up call I needed. It was a reminder to shift my priorities back to the patient. It was a reminder that my job was more than check boxes and administrat...
16 Jan 20233min
