What is your purpose? The RealMD podcast strives to create a space that helps medical students find and maintain their highest purpose in medicine. These episodes are the daily, weekly reminder you need to keep believing in your purpose.
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What happens when we stop looking at medical training as a series of individual moments and start looking at the whole journey? Dr. Doreen Balmer joins the RealMD Podcast to discuss qualitative research, physician identity, and her new book, The Long Arc of Training: Six Stories of Aspiring Doctors . Together, they explore what can emerge when we follow learners over time, paying attention to the…
Incoming medical student Topher Calder shares his journey to medical school and reflects on the excitement, uncertainty, and lessons that come with starting this new chapter. Together, they explore community, resilience, and how to stay true to yourself throughout the journey.
At our medical school, we focus on community building a lot including intergenerational relationships. There is a clear benefit to having relationships with medical students who are further along in the process. Having near peer mentors who understand the road ahead is an invaluable resource. In this episode, we build upon this idea even more and have a special interview between two brothers first…
Neurosurgeon Randy Jensen has worked at the U of U for 28 years. Because so many mentors came out of the wood work to help him navigate his career, he has carved out substantial time to mentor students and help build out a new curriculum. In this episode we talk about his journey into medicine, specialty, and academic medicine. I think the main point I want to shine a light on is how the people…
It is hard to believe that Taylor Stewart is starting his third year of medical school. It seems like just yesterday he was starting medical school. In this episode we have a chance to catch up and also talk about his unique journey as a veteran who went from recon missions to discovering medicine and pivoting his career to become a physician. We cover alot of ground and for those who dont think…
This episode features a recording from our Spring Storytelling Night, centered on the theme Tradition: "Stories of rituals: inherited, invented, and interrupted. Of finding familiarity in the way we fold a napkin, the words we whisper before a meal, or the path we take home. Our spring storytelling event honors the pull of the past and the courage to rewrite it. Come to listen to others finding…
This week, we’re sharing a special bonus episode featuring a conversation from Scope Radio with Dr. Tom Hurtado, Director of Student Affairs. Joined by medical students Noah Danesh (MS3, Keck School of Medicine of USC) and Suchita Kumar (MS4, Vanderbilt University), this discussion explores the power of storytelling, professional identity formation, and the role of mentorship in medical education.…
Today on the RealMD Podcast we are joined by Sheherya Ali, a second year MD/MPH student at the University of Texas, Medical Branch at Galveston. In this episode, Sheherya shares how the influence of his mother and father help shape his dual passions for buisnes and medicine. And, how he ultimately chose to pursue a career in healthcare. From his diverse premed experiences to his thoughtful…
This is part II of my conversation with third year medical student, Sarah Petelinsek. Her journey into research was organic, based on her own interests and unique background. It’s true that research especially during the first year can be intimidating, the learning curve, finding the right people and projects. Often we don’t think that research can happen on our terms and based on our own…
TW Jones is a Pediatric Infectious Diseases attending at the U of U. He was recommended to be guest on this episode so I really didn’t know what to expect. Which makes the happenstance of hearing his journey into medicine all the more powerful. To anyone who has been told that you aren’t cut out to do something, the pre-med advisor who discourages you to apply, a family member tells you they don’t…
The Tribal Rural and Underserved or TRU program was created to help students see that value of being immersed in the tribal and rural space both from a standpoint of future physicians who will practice there, but also seeing a different view of what is possible in medicine regardless of where you practice. In this episode, I interview third year medical student Abel Chavez who grew up in a rural…
