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Dr. Bryan Carmody writes a blog at the Sheriff of Sodium. He is a pediatric nephrologist, and an EVMS associate professor. He is an advocate for medical students and common sense. You can find him @jbcarmody This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

#58 - Medical School in the Time of Corona, STEP 1 Woes, and Doctor Drama. Find us on @csmedicine, and commonsensemd.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

Robert Croyle, PhD, was appointed director of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in July 2003. You can learn more at https://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/od/director_rc.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

Dr. Adam Biener is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Lafayette College. Previously, he was employed as an economist at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the US Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Biener's research focuses on medical care use and expenditures in the US. Specific areas of his research include the medical care costs of obesity, how the affordable care act has affected physician payments and the use of primary care, as well as racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare use. Dr. Biener received his PhD in Economics from Lehigh University in 2015.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

Louise Aronson is a physician, writer, and person. Learn more about her at https://louisearonson.com/about/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

Priya Kantesaria is a fourth-year medical student at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Priya graduated from Rutgers University – New Brunswick, where she completed her bachelors in Genetics with minors in public health and health & society. At NJMS, Priya has focused on improving healthcare at a variety of levels. Priya has a passion for legislative advocacy. As an active member of the American Medical Association, Priya serves as the Committee on Long Range Planning Vice Chair where she works on studies & programming related to medical student debt & burnout. She serves as the NJ delegate to the House of Delegates where she represents NJ medical students. As the AAMC-OSR Northeast Legislative Chair, she focuses on developing the relationship between student-led advocacy and medical school administration. At her institution, she increases student access to pre-clinical resources by running academic support for first years and developing curriculum to teach students bleeding control. She active in

Travis Benson is an M1 at Harvard Medical School. Prior to medical school, Travis worked as a pipe welder for nine years. Motivated by the experience of being the child of a transgender parent and seeing the discrimination that the trans community faces in a clinical setting, Travis quit his job in 2015 to return to school to become a physician. He attended the Oregon Health & Science University-Portland State University School of Public Health and majored in Health Sciences as a non-traditional first-generation student. During undergrad, Travis was heavily involved in research. At OHSU, he conducted research on voice masculinization in transmasculine patients, created a health needs assessment study of the transgender and gender non-conforming community in Portland, and worked as a clinical researcher in a circadian rhythm lab. He also spent some time as a research fellow at the NIH as part of the Amgen Scholars program where he studied immunology. He has been heavily involved in mentoring students. As a

Dr. Jason Ryan is the creator of the website Boards and Beyond. Thousands of students from around the globe use his online videos and practice questions to prepare for the USMLE Step 1 exam. Dr. Ryan trained in internal medicine and cardiology at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he also served as a chief resident. In addition to his MD, he holds a Master of Public Health degree and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering. He has been a faculty member at the University Of Connecticut School Of Medicine in Farmington, Connecticut for over 10 years. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

Dr. Michael L. Barnett is Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a primary care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Barnett received his MD from Harvard Medical School and completed a residency and fellowship in primary care and general internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Barnett’s research focuses on understanding and improving the health care delivery system with specific interests in the role of physicians in the opioid epidemic as prescribers and providers of treatment for opioid use disorder as well as studying innovative models for health care payment and care delivery. His research has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, British Medical Journal and Annals of Internal Medicine and has received best research of the year awards from the Society of General Internal Medicine and AcademyHealth. His research has also been featured or cited in the New York Times, Washington Post, National Pu

Professor Mamas trained in Medicine at the University of Oxford, undertaking an MA in Physiological Sciences in 1994 and a DPhil in Physiological sciences from 1994-1997. He completed his clinical training at the University of Oxford in 2000. Professor Mamas was appointed as Clinical Lecturer in Cardiology at the University of Manchester (2006) and completed his specialist training in Interventional Cardiology in 2012 and was appointed as a Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at the University of Manchester. In 2015 he was appointed as Professor of Interventional Cardiology at Keele University. Professor Mamas is an Associate Editor of Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions and a member of the E-Cardiology working group of the European Society of Cardiology. He is also a member of the NIHR interventional procedures review panel as well as sitting on several safety endpoint committees of several national randomized controlled trials. He is the Clinical Director of the

Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP is Founder and Executive Editor of Policy Prescriptions. A graduate of Morehouse College, Dr. Dark earned his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine and holds a master’s degree from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He completed his residency training at George Washington University. Currently, Dr. Dark is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and a Health Policy Scholar in the Center for Medical Ethics & Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. He produces a health policy podcast for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and a column for ACEP Now. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

Today, we talk with Dr. Gwen Quinn, the Livia Wan M.D. Endowed Chair and Vice-Chair of Research in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Professor in the departments of Population Health and the Center for Medical Ethics at NYU School of Medicine. She is the chair of the departments promotion and tenure committee. Dr. Quinn received her Ph.D. in educational psychology from Florida State University and did a post-graduate fellowship in public health and has post-graduate certification in Program Evaluation and Biomedical Ethics. Her research focuses on improving patient/family/physician communication through understanding the barriers and benefits of health care use from a mutli- stakeholder perspectives. Her current research and training efforts are in the areas of : Reproductive Health, Sexuality, and Fertility Preservation, Quality of Life issues in Pediatric, Adolescent & Young Adult and LGBTQ+ Cancer Populations, and Cancer Clinical Trials (including minority barriers to participation); and training researche

Today, we sit down with Dr. Talal Hilal, a physician who is originally from Syria. He completed his medical school training at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) campus in Bahrain in 2012. He applied for residency training as an IMG in 2013. He did his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Kentucky, and graduated in 2016. At the time of this interview, he was chief fellow in the Hematology/Oncology fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, AZ and graduated in the summer of 2019. His clinical interests are hematology (specifically lymphoproliferative disorders), application of evidence-based medicine in clinical practice, and pragmatic trial designs. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

In this podcast, Dr. Richard Frankel stops by and we talk about a varied number of sociological factors that physicians have to face - in terms of their training, their eventual job, and other factors outside their job. Dr. Frankel is a professor of medicine and geriatrics at the Indiana School of Medicine, and he researches organizational culture change, face-to-face communication, and the role of technology and its effect on the human dimensions of healthcare, especially empathy.  In addition to his research interests he has been a medical educator for the past 35 years. He was the co- director of the internal medicine residency program at Highland Hospital/University of Rochester and also served as co-director of the Program and Fellowship in Advanced Biopsychosocial Medicine. From 2003-2013, he was the statewide director of Indiana University School of Medicine’s professionalism competency and responsible for both curriculum and remediation in this arena. We talked about his experiences in academia and hi

On this episode of Vital Signs, Varun and I talk about the book When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi as well as our personal experiences up close and personal with death and dying. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

My friend Varun and I talk about our journey in the BS/MD Program and how we got to medical school. Enjoy the next episode of Vital Signs! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

A new co-host, Varun, and I talk about our experiences in our medical school program, compassion tests, and medical education. Email us at contact@commonsensemedic.com if you have any questions, comments, or concerns! Articles discussed in this episode: https://news.aamc.org/medical-education/article/med-school-3-years-future-medical-education/?fbclid=IwAR0YHj28mmIVMoUnK1O7cf15W3ag0b0TJk2cgPRGmcY2wcs5HinirPzttzo https://khn.org/news/oregon-medical-students-face-tough-test-talking-about-dying/ https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2019/07/our-medical-training-has-been-outsourced.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

Today on the show we are very glad to welcome Dr. Nina Shapiro, ENT specialist and author of Hype!  In our conversation we chat about her book and what inspired a general and popular publication of its kind before getting into some of our guest's experiences and opinions on the medical field at present. We discuss confirmation bias, common health concerns and the attitudes of parents towards health in the modern climate. Dr. Shapiro opens up about e-cigarettes, vaccines, online information and gender bias in medicine too. She shares some of the challenges that come with writing a book, and particularly a medically focused one, why mentorships are so important to young doctors and the troubling advice she offers encounters in her work. We finish off the episode with a few fun questions about wishes, her mission and a question that Dr. Shapiro wants to ask Shree! For all this and more, tune in today!   Key Points From This Episode:   Confirmation bias, the influence of Google and the inspiration behind the boo

On the podcast today, I interview Dr. Joyce Kahng, a dentist practicing in Costa Mesa, California. She teaches classes in dentistry at USC and also owns a private practice called Orange + Magnolia dentistry studio. We open up with how she got interested in dentistry, to be like her mom.    She didn’t really know what she wanted to do with dentistry until she completed school, she explains, like a lot of other people in medicine. She came to the General practice residency to talk to people about routine things (because she did not want to specialize) and focus on building relationships with people.    Building Relationships Through Social Media   This brought her to Instagram. Starting it as a tool to grow her business, she was able to more readily disperse knowledge about dentistry, like how to floss correctly.  She explains that it was more authentic to her to make sure that she was able to talk about the topics that would help people on their journey throughout dentistry. We talk about how memorable moments

Today, I had the great pleasure of talking to Dr. Andrea Tooley. She is a fellow in ophthalmic plastic surgery in New York City. She is active on Instagram with the handle @dr.andreatooley. We were able to talk about how she got interested in ophthalmology, her struggles in medical school, and how she was able to use YouTube, Instagram, and other social media outlets in her professional life as an advocate for the American Academy of Ophthalmology.    Something cool that I learned about Dr. Tooley on the podcast was that she earned her pilot’s license at age 16, and was exposed to ophthalmology through a trip in her senior year with Orbis International, a foundation which flies to underserved nations and carries out eye surgeries on planes.    As she progressed through her education, she was able to find a routine in medical school and hit the ground running as she knew that she wanted to specialize in ophthalmology from the get go.    Finding a Mentor   Throughout her journey, Dr. Tooley found a mentor who w