In this podcast, Dr. Christopher Jackson shares an inside view on the residency match and recent changes to the application process in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He additionally discusses his role as a clinician educator in shaping the training experience for internal medicine residents at UTHSC.

This podcast explores the motivating factors for a physician experiencing "Joy in Practice", a topic that will also be addressed in an upcoming issue of the Southern Medical Journal. Join Matthew Du, a third-year medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine as he details how this study used a bit different approach to the topic of satisfaction with one's practice; instead of addressing the commonly studied concept of "burn-out," he and his coauthors, Drs. Zhoy Jung Tak and John Yoon, utilized the novel concept of why physicians experience joy in practice. The authors' study utilized validated physician well-being measures, and tested the concept of joy in practice with certain intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The authors believe that there is promise in addressing joy in practice as a marker of physician well-being, and offer primary and secondary outcomes from the study as insightful into the perspectives from a national physician survey.

Join Dr. Doris Lin as she discusses the readiness of hospitalists to assess and evaluate resident progress, a topic on which she has written an article for the April 2021 issue of the Southern Medical Journal. In this podcast, she also explores the role of faculty development in the evaluative process, as well as provides strategies to help hospitalists assess and evaluate trainee progress. In addition, she offers insight regarding the current state of evaluation of learners and where it could be headed in the near future.

Join Drs. Tracey Dabal and Christopher Jackson as they discuss the safety of baricitinib for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, a topic they address in their article that will appear in the May 2021 issue of the Southern Medical Journal. In this podcast, they talk about why they chose to perform their safety-focused meta-analysis and what results were the most surprising to them. They also provide insight into how the findings could impact practice. Additionally, the two of them share their perspective on submitting and having published a research article, as well as touch on the various aspects involved with the publication process.

In this podcast, we are joined once again by Dr. Philip Hartman. He is also a past president of the Southern Medical Association.

The podcast will cover the COVID-19 vaccine which Dr. Hartman has received and he will discuss his opinions on the vaccine, as well as what his thoughts are for the vaccine and the community at large. Lastly he will offer insight into possible vaccination strategies as the vaccine is made available to the public.

In this podcast, Dr. Everett Magann discusses prophylactic transfusion during pregnancy for women with sickle cell disease. Dr. Magann is the corresponding author of an article appearing in the April 2021 issue of the Southern Medical Journal that addresses this topic.

In Part 2 of this podcast, Drs. Jason Wagner and Richard Holt join us again to look back on the past year and discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. They will discuss how clinical outpatient care has been affected and offer insight into how physicians have been coping. They will also share their thoughts regarding the medical profession's response to the pandemic and ethical issues in patient care that may have arisen as a result of COVID-19.

In this podcast, Drs. Jason Wagner and Richard Holt join us again to look back on the past year and discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. They will discuss how clinical outpatient care has been affected and offer insight into how physicians have been coping. They will also share their thoughts regarding the medical profession's response to the pandemic and ethical issues in patient care that may have arisen as a result of COVID-19.

In this podcast, Dr. Veronica Piziak discusses COVID-19 and possible effects it may have on endocrine disease and explains if conditions such as thyroid cancer, Grave's disease, and diabetes mellitus make individuals more susceptible to the virus. Dr. Piziak also provides information regarding thyroid medication and risk of viral infection.

In our final podcast of our series on HIV testing, treatment, and prevention in the primary care setting, join Drs. Lisa Fitzpatrick and David Malebranche as they chat about the critical role of the patient-physician relationship in providing patient-centered sexual healthcare.