Academic Medicine Podcast

In the following months, I started noticing a subtle change in the way my patients and the community saw me. I went from being called the doctor to our doctor. Sharon Reece, assistant professor in the...

4 Apr 20226min

These golden minutes were not only setting a realtime example of intersecting roles and responsibilities but opening a window into a version of mentorship unique to virtual platforms, a kind of role-m...

21 Mars 20224min

In the ensuing weeks, I continued with my work, behaving as if the incident had no impact on me while clamping down the embarrassment of being called a racial slur in front of my team. When others ask...

14 Mars 20226min

Guests Will Bynum, MD, and Joe Jackson, MD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss new research into the nature of shame experiences in medical students and emerging work on the implications of premedical st...

28 Feb 202243min

This episode was originally released in August 2019. Guests Will Bynum, MD, Lara Varpio, PhD, and Ashley Adams, MD, join Toni Gallo and former Academic Medicine editor-in-chief David Sklar, MD, to dis...

21 Feb 202245min

Ultimately, whether it is through language, a shared interest, or another shared commonality, finding ways to connect with our patients is an invaluable skill that can transform medicine from a scienc...

7 Feb 20224min

I realized I never processed what I witnessed, experienced, and lived through. I put it all in a box so I could keep going to work. I sealed the box so that nothing could escape and distract me from t...

24 Jan 20226min

I choose to view this not as a story of bias against me, but instead of my attending's patience and perseverance. His uncompromising kindness made the patient blind to his own preconceived notions. I ...

17 Jan 20223min