76 Episodes

  1. Ep 055 - Transplant Nephrology with Dr. Meera Harhay

    Published: 22/09/2017

  2. Ep 054 - Anatomic & Clinical Pathology with Dr. Leal Herlitz

    Published: 8/09/2017

  3. Ep 053 - Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery with Dr. Megan Schimpf

    Published: 25/08/2017

  4. Ep 052 - Being a Physician MBA with Dr. Alex Macario

    Published: 18/08/2017

  5. Ep 051 - Plastic Surgery with Dr. Jeffrey Janis

    Published: 11/08/2017

  6. Ep 050 - Vascular Surgery with Dr. Venita Chandra

    Published: 4/08/2017

  7. Ep 049 - Orthopedic Foot & Ankle Surgery with Dr. Gordon Bennett

    Published: 28/07/2017

  8. Ep 048 - Nephrology with Dr. Josh Augustine

    Published: 21/07/2017

  9. Ep 047 - Orthopedic Sports Medicine with NFL Head Team Physician Dr. James Voos

    Published: 14/07/2017

  10. Ep 046 - Hand Surgery (via Orthopedics) with Dr. Kevin Malone

    Published: 7/07/2017

  11. Ep 045 - Emergency Medicine (Redux) with Dr. Christopher Wyatt

    Published: 30/06/2017

  12. Ep 044 - Performing Arts Medicine with Dr. Sajid Surve

    Published: 23/06/2017

  13. Ep 043 - Critical Care Medicine (via Internal Medicine) with Dr. Rozy Khan

    Published: 16/06/2017

  14. Ep 042 - Critical Care Medicine (via Anesthesiology) with Dr. Beverly Newhouse

    Published: 9/06/2017

  15. Ep 041 - Geriatric Medicine with Dr. Porter

    Published: 2/06/2017

  16. Ep 040 - International Health with Dr. Rick Hodes

    Published: 26/05/2017

  17. Ep 039 - Being a Physician Scientist in the Pharmaceutical Industry with Dr. Brandon Atkins

    Published: 19/05/2017

  18. Ep 038 - Orthopedic Trauma Surgery with Dr. Julius Bishop

    Published: 12/05/2017

  19. Ep 037 - Psychiatry with Dr. Jeanne Lackamp

    Published: 5/05/2017

  20. Ep 036 - Musculoskeletal Radiology with Dr. Peter Young

    Published: 28/04/2017

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The Undifferentiated Medical Student (TUMS) podcast is about helping medical students to choose a medical specialty and plan a career in medicine. The list of career options available to medical students is large, but the time to explore them all is short. Moreover, mentorship in medical school is lacking, and many medical students tackle the task of career planning alone, most struggling and almost all clutching to the hope that 3rd year clinical rotations will definitively resolve their remaining uncertainties about how they want to specialize. However, having been distracted by the relentless pace of their pre-clinical curricula and specter of Step 1, 3rd year medical students are eventually confronted with the reality that there are simply too many specialties to explore in one year and that they may not even get to finish their clinical rotations before important decisions about their careers need to be made (e.g., the planning of acting internships) if they are to be competitive applicants. Thus, mentorless and clinically unexposed, many medical students are forced to make wholly uninformed decisions about their futures. By interviewing at least one physician from each of the 120+ specialties listed on the AAMC's Careers in Medicine website 1) about their specialty, 2) how they decided this specialty was right for them, and 3) for advice about long-term career planning irrespective of the specialty they went into, this podcast aims to enumerate the details of every specialty and provide virtual mentorship on how best to go about moving past being an undifferentiated medical student.

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