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The Undifferentiated Medical Student

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.
76 episodes

Episodes

Ep 072 - PICU (and Entrepreneurship) with Dr. Arup Roy-Burman

02:05:439/27/2019

Ep 071 - The Hybrid Specialist and Non-Traditional Careers with Author/Surgeon Dr. Marty Makary

02:00:188/23/2019

Ep 070 - Ophthalmology with Dr. Tamar Shafran

01:53:508/14/2019

Calling All Premeds - New Podcast "All Access: Med School Admissions"

00:19:456/3/2019

Ep 069 - Preventive Medicine with Dr. Janani Krishnaswami

02:46:074/22/2019

Ep 068 - Academic Hospitalist Medicine with Dr. Emily Silverman

01:46:376/29/2018

Ep 067 - Combined Pediatrics-Anesthesiology with Dr. Mark Rockoff

02:09:076/15/2018

The 4th Year Episode #2

03:47:556/1/2018

The 4th Year Episode #1

04:02:424/16/2018

Ep 066 - Combined Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics with Dr. Aaron Leetch

01:45:242/23/2018