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.
Episodes
This is another exciting conversation with a physician who is following a non-traditional career path!
Dr. Arup Roy-Burman
Dr. Roy-Burman is a pediatric intensivist (aka pediatric critical care specialist) and former Medical Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. Dr. Roy-Burman is now the CEO of Elemeno Health, which he cofounded in 2016.
Dr. Roy-Burm...
This is an exciting interview with Dr. Marty Makary, a New York Times bestselling author and Johns Hopkins surgeon, who talks about what he calls the "hybrid specialist" and the importance of non-traditional careers in medicine.
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Dr. Tamar Shafran
Dr. Shafran is an attending general and pediatric ophthalmologist in Cleveland, OH.
Dr. Shafran received her medical degree from the Sackler School of Medicine in 2010; completed residency training in...
The topic of today’s show is not a specialty, but rather a new podcast that I am very excited to help introduce to the world called All Access: Med School Admissions, and the person here to tell us about it is its creator and host, Christian Essman, the Director of Admissions at Case Western Reserve University School of Me...
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Check out the TUMS Resources page for a complete list of book recommendations made by guests on this show (as well as other goodies).
Dr. Janani Krishnaswami
Dr. Krishnaswami is the Program Director of the ...
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This episode is sponsored by OnlineMedEd!
- Use this link to sign up for a free account.
- Then come back and use this link to get $80 off their annual premium subscription!
Check out the TUMS Resources page for a complete list of book recommendations made by guests on this show (as well as other goodies).
Show notes for this episode can be found here.
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Confused about 4th year? This episode is for you! Newly matched 4th year med students Roy Swanson (ophthalmology), Marco Swanson (plastic surgery), and Dana Canfield (obstetrics and gynecology) school Ian on the ins and outs of 4th year of medical school.
Show notes can be found here.
This is a wide ranging conversation that starts at the end of 3rd year and takes the listener through the completion of 4...
Confused about 4th year? This is your episode! Newly matched 4th year med students Maggie Knisley (pediatrics), Dan Binder (family medicine), and Steve Bigach (orthopedics) school Ian on the ins and outs of 4th year of medical school.
Show notes can be found here.
This is a wide ranging conversation that starts at the end of 3rd year and takes the listener through the completion of 4th year. A complete list of discussion topics f...
Help Ian interview all *190+* specialties! www.undifferentiatedmedicalstudent.com/suggestions
TUMS Email template to facilitate reaching out to guests!
Show notes for this episode can be found here.
Dr. Raj Dasgupta
Dr. Dasgupta (www.beyondthepearls.net; rajdasgupta.com) is a sleep medicine attending at as well as an assistant program director of internal medicine at the...
Help Ian interview all *190+* specialties! www.undifferentiatedmedicalstudent.com/suggestions
TUMS Email template to facilitate reaching out to guests!
Show notes for this episode can be found here.
Dr. Ciro Ramos-Estebanez
Dr. Ramos-Estebanez (crecns.com) is a Professor in the Neurocritical Care & Stroke divisions at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
D...
Help Ian interview all *190+* specialties! www.undifferentiatedmedicalstudent.com/suggestions
TUMS Email template to facilitate reaching out to guests!
Show notes for this episode can be found here.
Dr. Michael Abrams
Dr. Abrams is a pediatric ophthalmologist currently on sabbatical to work as CEO of FreeLinc Technologies (www.freelinc.com) in Sherborn, Massachusetts.
Dr...
Help Ian interview all *190+* specialties! www.undifferentiatedmedicalstudent.com/suggestions
TUMS Email template to facilitate reaching out to guests!
Show notes for this episode can be found here.
Dr. Ranjith Ramasamy
Dr. Ramasamy (www.ranjithramasamy.com) is the Director of Male Reproductive Medicine and Surgery as well as an Assistant Professor of Urology at the Univ...
Go to audibletrial.com/TUMS for a free 30-day trial membership and free audiobook!
Help Ian interview all *190+* specialties! www.undifferentiatedmedicalstudent.com/suggestions
TUMS Email template to facilitate reaching out to guests!
Show notes for this episode can be found here.
Go to audibletrial.com/TUMS for a free 30-day trial membership and free audiobook!
Help Ian interview all *190+* specialties! www.undifferentiatedmedicalstudent.com/suggestions
TUMS Email template to facilitate reaching out to guests!
Show notes for this episode can be found here.
Help Ian interview all *190+* specialties! www.undifferentiatedmedicalstudent.com/suggestions
TUMS Email template to facilitate reaching out to guests!
Show notes for this episode can be found here.
Dr. Keith Murray
Dr. Murray is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Director of Tactical EMS at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Dr. Mu...
Help Ian interview all *190+* specialties! www.undifferentiatedmedicalstudent.com/suggestions
TUMS Email template to facilitate reaching out to guests!
Show notes for this episode can be found here.
Dr. David Zopf
Dr. Zopf is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Otolaryngology, as well as an Affiliate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan.Read more
Help Ian interview all *190+* specialties! www.undifferentiatedmedicalstudent.com/suggestions
TUMS Email template to facilitate reaching out to guests!
Show notes for this episode can be found here.
Dr. Susan Padrino
Dr. Padrino is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine & Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleve...
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