Run the List

By Walker Redd, Emily Gutowski, Navin Kumar, Joyce Zhou, Blake Smith

What's Run the List about?

Run the List is a medical education podcast designed for medical students, residents, and all learners hoping for a review in internal medicine. Our show is comprised of short episodes through which you can learn about the diagnosis, management, and clinical pearls for common internal medicine problems.

Authors: Walker Redd, Emily Gutowski, Navin Kumar, Joyce Zhou, Blake Smith

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Run the List episodes:

11.06.2023
Episode 98: Approach to Diuresis
Dr. Leslie Chang, a hospitalist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), discusses an approach to diuresis with host Dr. Joyce Zhou, a resident at MGH and core Run the List podcast member. Together, they discuss determining a patient's volume status via...
10.09.2023
Episode 97: Approach to Dysphagia
Dr. Walker Redd, a Gastroenterology fellow at the University of North Carolina and co-founder of the Run the List podcast, discusses his approach to dysphagia with host Dr. Navin Kumar, an attending Gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, medical educator...
03.13.2023
Episode 96: Renal Replacement Therapies
Dr. Staci Leisman, Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, joins us to discuss renal replacement therapies. With host Dr. Emily Gutowski, she works through several cases that highlight the different...
02.27.2023
Episode 95: Interpretation of Urine Studies
Dr. Samira Farouk discusses her approach to interpreting urine studies. Together with host Dr. Emily Gutowski, she teaches listeners about the plethora of information that can be obtained from this simple lab test. This episode covers a review of the...
02.13.2023
Episode 94: Acid-Base Disorders
Dr. Alexis "AC" Gomez, a second year fellow at the combined MGH, Brigham and Women's, and Boston Children's nephrology program, discusses acid-base disorders with Dr. Joyce Zhou, a RTL host. She defines acid-base disorders, shares common etiologies, and offers a...
01.30.2023
Episode 93: Hypernatremia
Dr. Alexis "AC" Gomez, a second year fellow in the combined MGH, Brigham and Women's, and Boston Children's nephrology fellowship, continues a discussion of sodium disorders with a conversation about hypernatremia with Dr. Joyce Zhou, a RTL host and internal...
01.16.2023
Episode 92: Hyponatremia
Dr. Alexis "AC" Gomez, a second year fellow at the combined MGH, Brigham and Women's, and Boston Children's nephrology program, discusses her approach to hyponatremia with host Dr. Joyce Zhou. She shares the pathophysiology behind her diagnostic framework for hyponatremia...
01.02.2023
Episode 91: Hypokalemia
Dr. Samira Farouk, transplant nephrologist at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, continues our nephrology series with a discussion of hypokalemia. She and Dr. Emily Gutowski, RTL host, cover the potential causes of low potassium and important concepts to...
12.19.2022
Episode 90: Hyperkalemia
Dr. Rahul Maheshwari, second year nephrology fellow at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, discusses hyperkalemia with Dr. Emily Gutowski, a RTL host and internal medicine resident. They cover the potential causes of elevated potassium, how to think about...
12.05.2022
Episode 89: Acute Kidney Injury
Dr. Rahul Maheshwari, second year nephrology fellow at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, discusses acute kidney injury with Dr. Emily Gutowski, a RTL host and internal medicine resident. Together, they discuss the presentation, differential diagnosis, and treatment considerations...
11.22.2022
Episode 88: Acute Liver Failure
Dr. Raymond Chung, a Gastroenterologist and Transplant Hematologist who is the Director of the Hepatology and Liver Center at MGH and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, discusses acute liver failure with Dr. Joyce Zhou, a RTL host...
11.07.2022
Episode 87: Cirrhosis
Dr. Raymond Chung, a Gastroenterologist and Transplant Hematologist who is the Director of the Hepatology and Liver Center at MGH and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, joins host of RTL and internal medicine resident, Dr. Joyce Zhou,...
10.24.2022
Episode 86: Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease
Dr. Sasha-Deutsch Link, a Gastroenterology and Hepatology fellow at the University of North Carolina (UNC), joins host her co-fellow Dr. Walker Redd, co-founder and host of RTL, to discuss Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease. Through a case discussion of a patient with...
10.10.2022
Episode 85: Approach to Abnormal LFTs
Dr. Navin Kumar, an attending Gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, medical educator at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of the Run the List podcast and host Blake Smith discuss how to approach a patient presenting with acute right-upper quadrant...
09.26.2022
Episode 84: IBD Management
Dr. Navin Kumar, an attending Gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, medical educator at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of the Run the List podcast and Dr. Walker Redd, a Gastroenterology fellow at the University of North Carolina and co-founder...
09.12.2022
Episode 83: Approach to Diarrhea
Dr. Navin Kumar, an attending Gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, medical educator at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of the Run the List podcast and host Blake Smith discuss how to approach a patient presenting with diarrhea. In this...
08.29.2022
Episode 82: Biliary Tract Stone Disease
Dr. Navin Kumar, an attending Gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, medical educator at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of the Run the List podcast and Dr. Walker Redd, a Gastroenterology fellow at the University of North Carolina and co-founder...
08.15.2022
Episode 81: Lower GI Bleeding
Dr. Navin Kumar, an attending Gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, medical educator at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of the Run the List podcast and Dr. Walker Redd, a Gastroenterology fellow at the University of North Carolina and co-founder...
08.01.2022
Episode 80: Upper GI Bleeding (Variceal Bleeding)
Dr. Navin Kumar, an attending Gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, medical educator at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of the Run the List podcast, and Dr. Walker Redd, a Gastroenterology fellow at the University of North Carolina and co-founder...
07.18.2022
Episode 79: Upper GI Bleeding (Non-Variceal)
Dr. Navin Kumar, an attending Gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, medical educator at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of the Run the List podcast continues Season 2 of RTL’s partnership with McGraw Hill Medical by discussing upper GI bleeding...
07.01.2022
Episode 78: Pancreatitis
Dr. Navin Kumar, an attending gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, medical educator at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of Run the List podcast kicks off Season 2 of RTL’s partnership with McGraw Hill Medical by chatting with RTL host...
05.31.2022
Episode 77: Med Ed for Residents, Fellows, and Faculty (Part 2)
Dr. Navin Kumar, an attending gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, medical educator at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of Run the List podcast talks with RTL host Blake Smith in a two-part series focused on Med Ed. This second...
05.20.2022
Episode 76: Med Ed for Medical Students (Part 1)
Dr. Navin Kumar, an attending gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, medical educator at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of Run the List podcast talks with RTL host Blake Smith in a two-part series focused on Med Ed. This first...
04.04.2022
Episode 75: Careers in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Dr. Daniela Lamas, an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital chats with Blake Smith (host) about a career in Pulm/CCM. They talk together about...
03.14.2022
Episode 74: Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure/ARDS
Dr. Morgan Soffler, a Pulmonologist and ICU intensivist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, continue a discussion of a patient with hypoxia in the setting of acute respiratory distress (from Ep. 73)...
02.28.2022
Episode 73: Respiratory Support
Dr. Morgan Soffler, a Pulmonologist and ICU intensivist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, discusses a case of a patient with hypoxia in the setting of acute respiratory distress with RTL host,...
02.14.2022
Episode 72: Pressors
Dr. Brady, an ICU intensivist and the director of the critical care medicine clerkship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), discusses vasopressors and inotropes with RTL host, Dr. Navin Kumar. Together, they use the previous episode's (Ep. 71: Approach to...
01.31.2022
Episode 71: Approach to Shock
Dr. Brady, an ICU intensivist and the director of critical care medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), explains how to categorize the four major types of shock with RTL host, Dr. Navin Kumar. Together, they discuss a case...
01.17.2022
Episode 70: COPD
Dr. Walker, a Pulmonologist and Critical Care specialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, explains how she diagnoses and manages COPD. They help breakdown a number of topics, including PFTs, severity classification, principles of outpatient and inpatient management, and how to...
01.03.2022
Episode 69: Asthma & Social Determinants of Health
Dr. Jefferson, an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the division of Allergy & Immunology and bioethicist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, discusses the care of both pediatric and adult patients with asthma with host Dr. Walker Redd....
12.22.2021
Episode 68: Approach to Dyspnea
In this episode, host Joyce Zhou speaks with Dr. Jeremy Richards, a pulmonologist and critical care physician at the Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center (BIDMC) and a medical educator who teaches the introduction to cardiopulmonary physiology course at Harvard Medical...
12.07.2021
Episode 67: Careers in Infectious Diseases
Dr. Sigal Yawetz, an infectious disease attending physician and medical educator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital chats with Blake Smith (host) about a career in infectious diseases. They talk together about the field of ID at large, in addition to sub-specializing, with a...
11.22.2021
Episode 66: HIV
Dr. Michelle Cespedes, an infectious disease attending physician at Mount Sinai Hospital, is interviewed by host Emily Gutowski about the diagnosis of patients with HIV. They talk about both the acute presentation as well as the management of a patient...
11.08.2021
Episode 65: Hospital-Acquired Infections
Dr. Mikyung Lee, an infectious disease attending physician and program director for the ID fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital, discusses hospital-acquired infections, including ventilator-acquired pneumonias and catheter-associated UTIs. Run the List podcast on AccessMedicine: https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/multimedia.aspx#1460
10.25.2021
Episode 64: Cellulitis
Dr. Sal Cilmi, an infectious disease attending physician and IM program director at Mount Sinai Hospital, discusses cellulitis and common culprits of soft tissue infections. Run the List podcast on AccessMedicine: https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/multimedia.aspx#1460
10.11.2021
Episode 63: Approach to Pneumonia
Dr. Mary Montgomery, an Infectious Diseases specialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, teaches host Walker Redd how she diagnoses and manages pneumonia. They discuss IDSA guidelines, classification, diagnostic studies, empiric antibiotics, complications, pathophysiology, and more. Run the List podcast on AccessMedicine:...
09.27.2021
Episode 62: Approach to Fever
Dr. Solomon, an Infectious Diseases specialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, discusses his approach to fever with host, Walker Redd. In discussing Dr. Solomon's framework for clinical reasoning in infectious diseases and applying it to a case of fever of...
09.15.2021
Episode 61: Goals of Care Conversations
Dr. Andy Lawton, a palliative care physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital shares with host, Joyce Zhou, the REMAP framework for having effective goals of care conversations with patients with serious illness. Dr. Lawton offers sample language on key components...
08.30.2021
Episode 60: Geriatrics Overview
Dr. Schwartz, a geriatrician at the VA Boston, gives an overview of Geriatric Medicine in this discussion with host, Walker Redd. They discuss how a systematic approach called the "5Ms of Geriatrics" - which includes mind, mobility, medications, multi-complexity, and...
08.16.2021
Episode 59: Careers in Rheumatology
Dr. Eli Miloslavsky, a rheumatologist and medical educator at Massachusetts General Hospital, chats with Blake Smith (host) about a career in rheumatology. They talk about subspecialties within rheumatology, in addition to the changing landscape of the field. The episode closes...
08.02.2021
Episode 58: Approach to Acute Back Pain
Dr. Andrew Coyle, primary care physician formerly at Mount Sinai Hospital and current Program Director of the IM residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, gives an overview of a common issue in outpatient medicine: acute back pain. In this conversation...
07.19.2021
Episode 57: Approach to Joint Pain
Dr. Eli Miloslavsky, a rheumatologist and medical educator at Massachusetts General Hospital, shares an approach to joint pain with Joyce Zhou (host). Run the List podcast on AccessMedicine: https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/multimedia.aspx#1460
07.05.2021
Episode 56: Approach to Rheumatologic Diseases
Dr. Eli Miloslavsky, a rheumatologist and medical educator at Massachusetts General Hospital, shares an approach to rheumatologic diseases with Joyce Zhou (host). Run the List podcast on AccessMedicine: https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/multimedia.aspx#1460
06.28.2021
RTL Update
In this short segment, the RTL podcast team - Dr. Emily Gutowski, Dr. Navin Kumar, Dr. Joyce Zhou, Dr. Walker Redd, and Blake Smith - discuss their recent partnership with AccessMedicine / McGraw Hill Medical and how this ties into...
05.11.2021
Episode 55: Addressing Diagnostic Uncertainty in Medicine
In this episode, Dr. Daniel Motta-Calderon chats with Dr. Anuj Dalal, an academic hospitalist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Dr. Lindsey Wu, teaching hospitalist at the Durham VA Medical Center. The discussion begins with a case of a patient...
03.15.2021
Episode 54: Financial Literacy for Medical Trainees
In this episode, Emily Gutowski (host) interviews Dr. William Bernstein, a neurologist, financial theorist, and author. They speak about the importance of learning to manage finances early on in one’s medical career, as well as some of the hurdles faced...
03.01.2021
Episode 53: Understanding the Latinx Culture in Medicine
In this episode, Dr. Daniel Motta-Calderon (host) talks with Raquel Sofía Sandoval (invited student), a fourth-year MD/MPP student at Harvard, and Dr. Pilar Ortega (discussant), author, researcher, and expert on health communication, multilingualism, and equity. First, they shed light on...
02.15.2021
Episode 52: Diversity and Inclusion in Medicine
In this episode, Jordan Petersen (audio editor, host) speaks with Dr. Valerie Stone, the Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Lash Nolen, a 2nd year Harvard medical student and the first black woman...
01.25.2021
Episode 51: Addressing Implicit Bias and Microaggressions
In “Addressing Implicit Bias and Microaggressions,” Jordan Petersen (audio editor, host) speaks with two leaders in diversity, equity, and inclusion: Titi Afolabi, a 4th year Harvard medical student, and Dr. Sherri-Ann Burnett-Bowie, the Director of Multicultural Affairs and an endocrinologist at...
11.13.2020
Episode 50: Careers in Hematology/Oncology
In this episode of Run the List, Blake Smith (host) talks with Dr. David Steensma, a hematologist/oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, about his career path, the changing landscape of the field, and how to immerse oneself in new disease indications...

What's Run the List about?

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Run the List episodes:

Episode 98: Approach to Diuresis

Episode 97: Approach to Dysphagia

Episode 96: Renal Replacement Therapies

Episode 95: Interpretation of Urine Studies

Episode 94: Acid-Base Disorders

Episode 93: Hypernatremia

Episode 92: Hyponatremia

Episode 91: Hypokalemia

Episode 90: Hyperkalemia

Episode 89: Acute Kidney Injury

Episode 88: Acute Liver Failure

Episode 87: Cirrhosis

Episode 86: Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease

Episode 85: Approach to Abnormal LFTs

Episode 84: IBD Management

Episode 83: Approach to Diarrhea

Episode 82: Biliary Tract Stone Disease

Episode 81: Lower GI Bleeding

Episode 80: Upper GI Bleeding (Variceal Bleeding)

Episode 79: Upper GI Bleeding (Non-Variceal)

Episode 78: Pancreatitis

Episode 77: Med Ed for Residents, Fellows, and Faculty (Part 2)

Episode 76: Med Ed for Medical Students (Part 1)

Episode 75: Careers in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Episode 74: Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure/ARDS

Episode 73: Respiratory Support

Episode 72: Pressors

Episode 71: Approach to Shock

Episode 70: COPD

Episode 69: Asthma & Social Determinants of Health

Episode 68: Approach to Dyspnea

Episode 67: Careers in Infectious Diseases

Episode 66: HIV

Episode 65: Hospital-Acquired Infections

Episode 64: Cellulitis

Episode 63: Approach to Pneumonia

Episode 62: Approach to Fever

Episode 61: Goals of Care Conversations

Episode 60: Geriatrics Overview

Episode 59: Careers in Rheumatology

Episode 58: Approach to Acute Back Pain

Episode 57: Approach to Joint Pain

Episode 56: Approach to Rheumatologic Diseases

RTL Update

Episode 55: Addressing Diagnostic Uncertainty in Medicine

Episode 54: Financial Literacy for Medical Trainees

Episode 53: Understanding the Latinx Culture in Medicine

Episode 52: Diversity and Inclusion in Medicine

Episode 51: Addressing Implicit Bias and Microaggressions

Episode 50: Careers in Hematology/Oncology