Med Legs: Finding Your Footing As A First Generation and/or Low Income Student in Medicine

Michaela and Cecilia are starting clerkships in January! How are they feeling about this? What were they doing in med school these past 18 months? And what has been going through their minds since starting medical school? Listen now to find out if they feel like they're thriving or wasting their 20s.

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Anitra and Cecilia sit down with Dr. Kevin Isaak, Med Legs' first non-Penn-affiliated guest. Dr. Isaak was born in Argentina and moved to Georgia with his family when he was 10 y.o. He attended the University of Georgia for undergrad, earned his M.D. at Morehouse School of Medicine, and is currently a third-year internal medicine resident in Marietta, Georgia. In this episode, we learn about his life in Argentina and then here in the U.S., his decision to pursue an M.D., and his experience at an HBCU (historically black colleges and universities). 

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Your Med Legs co-hosts, Anitra, Cecilia, and Michaela, have a round-table discussion about their own experiences applying to medical school. Tune in to hear their approaches to the application season, what went well, and what they wish they were a little better at. 

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Episode produced and engineered by Jonathan Pfeffer / Pod Brain.

In this episode, we're discussing our interview day experiences with fourth year medical students Cheyenne Williams and Michael Perez. Cheyenne and Michael were integral to the creation of the Penn Med FGLI student group, then known as LIFT US UP (Low Income and First Time Undergraduate and Medical Students of the University of Pennsylvania). In this episode, Cheyenne and Michael share their own journey to Penn Med, how they prepared for their med school interviews, how being FGLI impacted their interview experiences, and much more. 

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With medical school application season well underway, we’re sitting down with Dr. Neha Vapiwala at the University of Pennsylvania to discuss concerns first generation and/or low income (FGLI) applicants may have during this time.

Dr. Vapiwala, a FGLI individual herself, is the Associate Dean of Admissions at the Perelman School of Medicine and Faculty Advisor to the Penn Med FGLI Student Group (formerly known as LIFT US UP. She is also a Professor and Vice Chair of Education in Radiation Oncology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and specializes in the treatment of patients with genitourinary cancers.

In this episode of Med Legs, Dr. Vapiwala shares her own FGLI experience in medicine, how admissions committees take applicants’ FGLI status into account, and the resources FGLI students can seek out during the application cycle, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Meet your Med Legs co-hosts! In this episode, we share our journeys to medicine, how we identify within the first generation and/or low income community, and what each of our goals are for this podcast. We hope you enjoy listening! 

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Med Legs - the first podcast about being first generation and/or low income in medicine. Sponsored by Penn HealthX and the Perelman School of Medicine Medical Student Government. First episode debuts Monday, June 29th!