AMSA ad lib Podcast
1) 78. How to strengthen your resilience, get ready for residency
Medical training and practice will be hard on you, and on your peers. Surviving the stress takes preparation and awareness. We'll hear how one medical student used self-care to prepare for her trans...Show More
2) 45. Fighting bias with storytelling
Biases in medical training are affecting medical students, but many--including you--may not appreciate that it’s happening. Fixing the problem won’t be easy, but some trainees themselves are working t...Show More
3) 69. What to do when medicine falls short
As a physician, you won’t be able to solve all of your patients’ problems. Some of those problems, especially systemic ones, will remain just out of a doctor’s reach. In this episode, we learn how to ...Show More
4) 50. Shots fired: Rehearsing for disaster
It no longer seems impossible, or even unlikely: What happens if your medical center itself comes under attack? Have you thought about your role? What would you do? What should you do? Would you have ...Show More
5) 22. Don't put my pants in the dryer
Have you ever advised a patient to eat healthy and exercise, then hit up the McDonald's drive-through on the way home from work? Maybe it’s time for a wake-up call. Hear from one student who had a wak...Show More
6) 54. Beyond soundbites and snack tips: Today's patient and health literacy
Are you being taught how to help patients understand all of the overwhelming medical messaging they’re getting? Though the way that medical students are taught has changed gradually over the past cent...Show More
7) 60. Present your research right
You’ve spent months on a complex research project, from conception to designing your study, to collecting data and coming to your conclusions. It’s all enormously complicated—now, explain the whole th...Show More
8) 85. Behind the scenes with OnlineMedEd
Med students get pretty serious about the resources they use to study. What goes into making some of these tools? In this episode, med student Sarah Smith spoke with the founders of OnlineMedEd, Dr. D...Show More
9) 58. The stigma and paradox of family medicine and primary care
What have you heard about primary care? That there's "too much paperwork?" Or that you're "too smart" to go into it? Or, paradoxically, that "there's too much to learn"? In the spirit of National Prim...Show More
10) 48. Story Slam: Reaching med school at 60
Even as the definition of a “nontraditional” med student has shifted, there are outliers. Elaine Luther is one such outlier. But medical school isn't just about the medical career that follows. It is ...Show More