Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 17, 2023

When I started this blog, I had just received my first acceptance into medical school, and after scouring the web and not being able to find anyone with a similar story as mine, I wanted to create something to not only document my journey through medicine, but help inspire and encourage others to pursue their dreams as well.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

OCTOBER 23, 2021

I was ecstatic when I had the opportunity to meet her in person for the first time as a 2nd year medical student (see post HERE ), and even before then, she was the first person I ever highlighted in my Minority Women in Osteopathic Medicine section (that post can be found HERE ). She's such a phenomenal person!

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 18, 2023

Additionally, this past week alone, a large number of former medical students who rotated with me during my intern year graduated from the shorter duration residencies in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, etc and are now getting to do what they set out to do.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

Every year, thousands of medical school graduates go unmatched. If you’re a 4th year medical student who is unmatched at this point, my advice is the following: Focus on securing a one year preliminary or transitional year position! What if I fail to match into any position?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

This isn't only because too few medical students are choosing primary care residency programs ; it also reflects generalist physicians leaving practice prematurely due to burnout. These days, most adults need to wait several months for a new patient appointment with a family doctor, if they can get one at all.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 16, 2021

At the time, I was a premedical student who had just received my one and only acceptance to medical school the month prior. I knew there had to be individuals out there who had made it through despite all the odds, but my internet search proved extremely futile.

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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

It was at that time that they began to search for a way to operate a business outside of the confines of the insurance-based model, and discovered Direct Primary Care – a payment model by which the patient pays their physician a set monthly fee in exchange for unrestricted primary medical care.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

In This Issue : Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Medical Waste: One Model for Improvement OnTrack with your Sustainability Goals? Our Consulting Services offer customized strategies for group practices, health systems, and medical societies ready to accelerate their impact and lead the way in climate-smart care.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Together, these two phenomenal guests help us understand the structural and individual challenges of Indigenous peoples in academic medicine, public health, and beyond. This includes being mindful of language and the etiology of the words we use in academic and medical spaces (e.g., “low

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 17, 2021

By the time most medical students get ready to apply for residency, they have already spent thousands of dollars just taking board exams alone, not to mention the other costs associated with being a medical student. It all adds up. Both institutions had assessments that were very different.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We are a collective profession of high-earning and driven individuals. Individuals still pursue real estate over stocks, or in parallel, because the stock market is historically more volatile than real estate, making real estate a safer investment during economically uncertain times. I understand the incentive, sure. Remember that.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

But more importantly, when I looked at your appendix, Dr. Rosielle the Institute of Safe Medication Practices says, you should never have order sets or charts or anything where one drug name is very close in proximity to another drug name, particularly if they sound alike. And then again, individualizing it to the patient.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 1, 2022

I had never rotated in it when I was a medical student, so it was kind of cool being behind the curtain. She just finished the school year and is now a 10th grader, has been working on her driving skills, staying involved with band and color guard, and is just an all-around awesome individual.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

(Published 3/18/19, updated 6/20/25) What Is Physician “Burnout”—and Why It Matters Physician “burnout” is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress in the medical workplace. and it has been linked to rising rates of physician depression , doctor suicide , and medical errors.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I was really fascinated not only with the medical side of things, but some of the. I knew I wanted to do palliative medicine pretty early Even in medical school. There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

When I was a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine, I participated in their Ethics track. This included additional classes in medical ethics as well as a scholarly project examining the medical ethics of a specific clinical situation. There is no easy or "correct" answer in these situations.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Alex: Today we’re delighted to welcome Jerry Gurwitz, who is a geriatrician and professor of medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School. I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. I have this wonderful opportunity right now where I chair this Department of Health Social Work in Dell Medical School.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

There are now nearly 300 cryogenically frozen individuals in the US, another 50 in Russia , and a few thousand prospective candidates signed up. However, The Medical Futurist is not sure whether a form of deep sleep will be enough if we want to travel light years. appeared first on The Medical Futurist.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

She’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc and is associate chair for professional development in the department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. Individuals had no control. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. It could be viewed as two different ways.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

You’re a disgruntled medical student. You’re thinking about dropping out of medical school. I was thinking of leaving my medical studies and I sat down with a mentor and told him this. The only thing that we couldn’t do is prescribe for medication, but we were doing a lot of that bedside work.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Zachary: I mean, I did my med school and residency training in Louisville, Kentucky, and I had a second year med student lecture from Joe Rotella who was, I think the chief medical officer at Hospices at the time. This delineation of you can use the same medication for one indication without training. Janet: Great question.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

So most of our medical schools have simulation centers. I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. And your job is to say, “Okay, what’s medically achievable?

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. So, we formed this organization called Pain and Palliative Care Society in the Northern Kerala city of Kalakkad based in the government medical college. Raj: That’s one of the high tech medical absurdities that we have developed.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. And I’ve had that happen.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

We’ve also love to hear from you on twitter and facebook your own experiences writing for the medical world (and please include links!) And so, it’s about going live on stage in the medical audience, and everything from the whiteboard in the surgery room saying, “Here’s the lineup. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” Really important person, who later in his life got very interested in healthcare.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. And I’ve had that happen.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Alex: Today, we’re delighted to welcome Josh Briscoe, who is assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry at Duke, and a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center. And that’s technique sneaking in again, versus if I view this… I mean, medical decisions are clearly very important.

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GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Marilyn is joined by Guy Micco to talk about why poetry is important in general, why it’s important in medical or nursing education, and why it’s important for people who care for older adults. So we are delighted today to welcome Marilyn McEntyre, who’s a longtime teacher of literature and medical humanities. Guy: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Lauren: Although again, still thinking about what that means for an individual older adult is really important. Julien: But every time we look at one of these individual interventions, we’re not always seeing what we want to see. It was this slow build, I would say. So, that part was not surprising.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

I was on a retreat with Guy Micco , who’s been on this podcast several times, and he was teaching a class on death while I was in medical school. What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? And dying is too big, too profound for any one model, including the medical model.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

And then I feel like when I’m in clinic I’m helping individuals, and you only have so much time to help so many people. I was like, I’m fascinated when I read medical books and they’re quoting patients these long paragraphs. I like crafting sentences, I like thinking through things in the way I can. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Doctors for America

APRIL 22, 2025

Last week, at least six individuals were hospitalized and two have died following a shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee. DFA is an organization of over 27,000 physician and medical student advocates in all 50 states, representing all areas of specialization.

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Doctors for America

JUNE 23, 2025

As a nonpartisan organization of thousands of physicians and medical trainees committed to health justice, we bear witness to the trauma these policies inflict on our patients, our communities, and the healthcare system as a whole. DFA teaches physicians and medical students advocacy skills and does advocacy at a state and federal level.

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Doctors for America

APRIL 29, 2025

Meaningful Clinical Experience: We were pleased to see President Trump appoint an individual with essential clinical and research experience to serve as the next FDA Commissioner. FDA must continue to defend such regulations in the courts to fulfill its mandate of ensuring the safety and efficacy of medical products.

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