Blind Spots
Our patients should not be our blind spots. Even with the most thorough routines, I may not catch important clues—be it some subtle discomfort or altered affect—without keen observation, clues that ma...
9 Mai 20224min
Empowering Trainees to be Leaders and Change Agents
Guests Lala Forrest and Joe Geraghty join host Toni Gallo to discuss the journal's Trainee Letters to the Editor feature. They highlight selected letters submitted in response to last year's call for ...
25 Apr 202247min
The Medical Student Turing Test
Our words and actions may strike others, or strike back at us, in unexpected ways. We must therefore always be ready to show our most human sides: to absorb surprising responses, lean into awkward mom...
11 Apr 20224min
The Heart of Generalism
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
Online Medical School: Unexpected Moments of Mentorship
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 Mar 20224min
Paging Dr. Valentine: Racism and Allyship in Internship
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 Mar 20226min
Shame Experiences in Premedical and Medical Students
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
"I need you to forgive yourself": Shame in Medicine and Medical Education
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
