UnsCripted Medicine

Not every medical student is destined for the clinic. Fortunately, there are many other non-clinical careers in medicine that students can pursue after graduation. In this episode, we have on Colin Cotton, class of 2022, to discuss his non-traditional path and how he made the decision to pursue an alternative career in medicine. 

Resources: 

1. DocJobs.com
2. Looking for Zebras
3. AAMC Alternative Careers in Medicine Home Page
4. AAMC Pursuing Non-Clinical Careers

Reach out to Colin to learn more about non-clinical careers at [email protected]! 

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Have you been waiting on your Hogwarts acceptance letter since age 11? Have you been having a life crisis trying to figure out which specialty you're destined for? If so, this episode is for you! Tune in as we have on Chase Steele, member of the Class of 2023 and Orthopedics-hopeful, to discuss all things specialty stereotypes, Hogwarts houses and why different specialties can benefit from increased diversity of personalities and perspectives.

Show notes:
1. The Sorting Hat of Medicine: Why Hufflepuffs Wear Stethoscopes and Slytherins Carry Scalpels
2. The Sorting Hat of Medicine: Individual Choice or Institutional Culture
3. Assessment of personality type and medical specialty choice among medical students from Karachi; using Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) tool
4. Myers-Briggs type and medical specialty choice: a new look at an old question
5. The formation of professional identity in medical students: Considerations for educators
6. Role Models' Influence on Specialty Choice for Residency Training: A National Longitudinal Study
7. Social Belonging as a Predictor of Well-being and Surgical Resident Attrition

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Have you ever wondered how your attending on rounds or clinic preceptor reached their position in academia? Or perhaps you’ve pondered about what goes on behind the scenes of your simulated patient encounters? Maybe you’ve tutored medical students or led a dissection group before and are interested in exploring the deeper world of medical education. In this episode of the UnsCripted podcast, Mason sits down with the University of Cincinnati’s very own Dr. Kelleher to expound upon the vast world of medical education and advise students about how they can further explore their interests in Med Ed.

Dr. Matthew Kelleher is an internal medicine-pediatrics hospitalist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center and at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Dr. Kelleher received his MD from the University of Illinois School of Medicine in 2010, where he graduated with AOA and Gold Humanism Honor Society distinction. He completed his Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency training at the University of Cincinnati in 2014, where he also completed a chief year and earned a Master’s in Medical Education in 2017. In addition to his roles as a hospitalist, he also serves as an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine residency program at the University of Cincinnati and as one of the Clinical Skills course directors for 1st and 2nd year medical students at the UC College of Medicine. 

In this episode, Dr. Kelleher elaborates on what the world of Med Ed looks like, describes the different roles of clinician educators/clerkship directors/program directors, and what his day-to-day life as a hospitalist and clinician educator entails. He also offers helpful advice to medical students who may want to explore their interests in medical education and how these students can continue this pursuit in residency and beyond. 

Show Notes:
Three aspects of clinician educators
1. Active in clinical practice
2. Apply educational theory to teaching
3. Engaged in educational scholarship

Recommended podcast - KeyLIME
Follow Matt Kelleher on Twitter: @Kelzj3

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In this final part of our "Relationships in Medicine" series, we are featuring the short stories of three UC medical students and their non-medical partners: Ellie Sidler (UC Class of 2022) & Brad Bognar, Alex Gillotte (UC Class of 2023) & Stephen Green, and Mason Yoder (UC Class of 2022) & Jenni Fuller. Each of these couples tell about their unique journeys as couples navigating medical school, and their partners share their unique perspectives of what it's like to date or marry a medical student. 

Medical school is certainly challenging, and maintaining a healthy romantic relationship at the same time can seem like an overwhelming task. We hope that this episode is "heart"-ening to medical students who are seeking love in the time of the medical training, and that the advice shared by our featured couples will help other partners in similar situations form stronger, happier relationships despite the highs and lows of medical school. 

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"Classes. Extracurriculars. MCAT. Service. Shadowing. Now you're telling me that I have to do research on top of that!?" In this episode, we demystify the whos, whats, wheres, whens, whys, and hows of research as an undergraduate student. Working with representatives from the organization Chasing Medicine, we offer some insight into our experiences with research, and what we did right (and wrong). 

Check out Chasing Medicine as their website: https://www.chasingmedicine.org

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In this episode of the UnsCripted Podcast, Rachel and Alex continue their discussion about managing microaggressions with Dr. Lisa Kelly. The focus of this episode is how to recognize and manage microaggressions as a bystander working in a hospital or clinic. Dr. Kelly is a board-certified ophthalmologist, is the board director for the Advancing Inclusion in Medical Education task force at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, course director for the Physician and Society 201/202 courses at UC,  and director of Medical Student Education in Ophthalmology at UC. 

In our discussion, Dr. Kelly relays key points about the delicate and subtle approach to managing microaggressions directed to our patients or colleagues. These include recognizing microaggressions when they occur, considering how our own implicit biases may blind us or contribute to such aggressions, and maintaining a mindset of cultural humility whenever a patient or colleague feels harmed by the words or actions of another. 

Dr. Kelly also shares her key tips on how to be a "good bystander" when faced with a microaggressions, including:
1. Recognize microaggressions when they occur
2. Realize our own implicit biases and how they play into such aggressions
3. Have a planning approach for handling these attacks on patients or colleagues
4. Have the courage and humility to ask patients or colleagues when they feel attacked
5. Know when to ask for help from your own team when facing microaggressions

This is truly an enlightening and humbling discussion, and we hope that it helps us all move forward as a stronger medical community that provides better care for our colleagues and our patients!

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Now that the USMLE Step 1 is under your belt, what's next? Well listeners, it pains me to say it but there is indeed another challenge to face... the USMLE Step 2 CK. And now that Step 1 is pass/fail, the Step 2 exam exhibits more weight and pressure than ever before.
 
Luckily, the Unscripted team has your back. In this episode, Mason sits down with Mike Deal and Abby Dillaha (all med students from the UC class of 2022) to discuss effective study strategies, testing resources, and tips for tackling the Step 2 CK exam. We hope you will find this episode as anxiety relieving as it is insightful.


Step 2 resources mention:
Link to USMLE Step 2 CK - Free 120
Divine Intervention Podcast
Boards & Beyond

Study books:
Master the Boards USMLE Step 2 CK
First Aid: USMLE Step 2 CK

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Just like Marty McFly and Doc Brown, the UnsCripted Medicine podcast is going BACK IN TIME! In this episode, we sit down with two representatives from Chasing Medicine, Nakul Narendran and Megan Jiang, to discuss everything pre-medical students should know and do before college and in their freshman and sophomore years. GREAT SCOTT MARTY! This is the start of our new pre-medical series, to cover all topics and FAQ from our pre-medical peers!

Time Stamps:
Material relevant for pre-undergraduate students begins at 4:30
Material relevant for freshman undergraduate students begins at 15:30
Material relevant for sophomore undergraduate students begins at 21:20

Chasing medicine is an organization started by current UCCOM M3 Halimat Olaniyan with the mission to invest in youth of minority social-economic, ethnic, racial, and other marginalized backgrounds to provide access to all resources needed to succeed as a pre-medical student. Resources such as pre-med advising, interview preparation, and application editing are all offered. Visit their website https://www.chasingmedicine.org for more information.

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Welcome to part 2 of our "Relationships in Medicine" series! In this episode, UnsCripted's own Rachel Holloway sits down with two University of Cincinnati med students, Grace and Giselle. These two are both in the UC College of Medicine Class of 2023 and have been in a relationship with each other since their first year of medical school. 

In this episode, our guests tell their story of navigating a romantic relationship during medical school as a same-sex couple and as medical students in the same graduating class. In particular, they talk about what it is like to share victories and struggles as medical students, how to balance the feelings of supporting and competing with each other, and the struggles they face navigating the educational and clinical environments as a same-sex couple. We hope you find their journey insightful!

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On this episode of the UnsCripted podcast, Rachel and Alex sit down with Dr. Lisa Kelly to discuss how to handle patient or colleague-generated microaggressions. Dr. Kelly is a board certified ophthalmologist at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. She completed her medical school at Harvard Medical School, ophthalmology residency at Stanford University, received a Masters of Education from Johns Hopkins School of Education, and completed a fellowship in corneal transplantation at Harvard University's Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. She is also  the director of Advancing Inclusion in Medical Education at the University of Cincinnati College of medicine, serves as course director for the Physician and Society 201 and 202 courses, and is the director of medical student education in ophthalmology.

Join us as we dive into the definition and origin of the term "microaggression", describe how these develop in the workplace and the clinic, and identify the deleterious effects that these aggressions have on women and URM (e.g. exacerbating imposter syndrome). Dr. Kelly also describes the discrete, subtle forms that these aggressions take (micro-assaults, micro-insults, and micro-invalidations), and provides key insight and advice as to how victims can navigate these aggressions in effective and constructive ways.


Show Notes:
Definition of microaggressions by Psychologist Derald Sue, PhD - "The everyday slights, indignities, put downs and insults that people of color, women, LGBT populations or those who are marginalized experiences in their day-to-day interactions with people."

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