Dr. Caroline Park is a surgeon at UT Southwestern who specializes in emergency general surgery, trauma, and surgical critical care. In this Ask Me Anything episode, Dr. Park shares about her lifestyle in a surgical subspecialty, the cat distribution system, and her considerations in choosing a city to train and work.

TIMESTAMPS

(00:00) Introduction to White Coats & Rice: An APAMSA Podcast

(00:51) Introduction to Dr. Caroline Park

(02:33) The Medical School Train and Fellowship Choices

(05:46) Why Trauma Surgery?

(07:30) A Day in the Life

(09:47) Acute Care Surgery Lifestyle and Scope of Patient Care

(12:23) Addressing the Mental and Emotional Stress of Surgical Specialties

(15:37) Institutional Efforts to Address Mental Health

(17:10) Representation in Surgical Subspecialties

(18:38) Carefully Choosing Hobbies: Running, Gardening, Cats!

(23:59) Living in Dallas

(25:00) Moving to a New City

(26:42) Choosing Where to Live and Finding Community

(28:39) Managing Finances

(31:16) Pursuing Research and Building Your Skillset

(33:55) Advice for Those Interested in Surgical Specialties

(36:35) Closing: What is One Thing that Brought You Joy Today?

Full transcript of this episode: https://www.apamsa.org/episode-2-ask-me-anything-with-dr-caroline-park/

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This episode was produced by Annie Nguyen, Reanna Dona-Termine, and Ashley Tam, hosted by Annie Nguyen, and graphic by Callista Wu and Claire Sun.

Victoria Shi is APAMSA’s 2024-2025 National President and a fourth-year medical student. In this episode, Victoria shares about her tenure on APAMSA’s National Board, exploring dermatology as a specialty, and living in various places.

TIMESTAMPS

(00:00) Introduction to White Coats & Rice: An APAMSA Podcast

(00:38) Introduction to Victoria Shi

(03:39) How and why did you get involved with APAMSA?

(05:21) APAMSA accomplishments and highlights

(07:06) Impact of mentorship in medicine

(08:32) APAMSA role models

(10:09) Upcoming events and APAMSA’s National Conference

(12:05) Leadership in APAMSA

(13:27) Creating initiatives and collaboration in APAMSA National Board

(15:24) Advice for attending medical conferences alone

(17:30) Choosing Dermatology as a speciality & residency applications

(19:49) Dermatology research fellowship

(21:11) Dermatology research conferences

(21:53) Subspecialties within Dermatology

(23:28) Skincare & other misconceptions in Dermatology

(25:14) What are you looking forward to in your medical career?

(26:22) Relocating for residency and beyond

(27:02) Philadelphia & city life

(31:23) Rapid fire getting-to-know-you questions

(34:08) Advice for pre-medical and medical students

Full transcript of this episode: https://www.apamsa.org/podcast-1/

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This episode was produced by James ‘Jameson’ Chua and Ashley Tam, hosted by James 'Jameson' Chua, and graphic by Callista Wu and Claire Sun.