Every Patient After
The medical record from the day before includes a note from the chaplain who wrote that you smiled. I resolve to end more notes this way. The patient smiled. Medical student Molly Fessler reflects on ...
31 Okt 20224min
Including Standardized Patients With Diverse Gender Identities in Simulation Cases
Guests Luca Petrey and Laura Weingartner, PhD, MS, join hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee members Arianne Teherani, PhD, and Daniele Olveczky, MD, to discuss a new sc...
24 Okt 202242min
When You Smile at Misfortune
It is more likely emotional overload rather than apathy or insensitivity that prompts these contradictory expressions of emotion. An involuntary attempt to achieve a type of emotional homeostasis. Sad...
17 Okt 20226min
Reading Beyond the Medical Chart
So often, we get caught up in studying and updating the medical chart. When we get to know our patients as human beings, however, we realize that providing care goes beyond triple-checking medication ...
10 Okt 20224min
The Value of Hope
I was glad that I was too tired to speak at the close of the day, because by listening, I learned a lesson in humility. Madam A's family was more knowledgeable about her than we were, treating her as ...
26 Sep 20226min
Fostering Psychological Safety in the Clinical Learning Environment
Guests Addie McClintock, MD, and Joshua Jauregui, MD, join hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee members Andrea Leep, MD, and Paolo Martin, PhD, MS CHPR, MEd, to discuss ...
19 Sep 202238min
How Is Residency? Life as a COVID-19 Intern
As I progress through my training, I see more clearly how I benefited from my intern year; my comfort with ventilator settings and ability to navigate goals-of-care discussions are a direct result of ...
12 Sep 20223min
Nephrotic Nightmares
Remembering my own medical experiences is an insistent reminder that disease is not mundane, no matter how desensitized we may grow to it. Tom Fouché, a fourth-year medical student at the University o...
29 Aug 20224min
