76 Episodes

  1. Ep 035 - Allergy and Immunology with Dr. Haig Tcheurekdjian

    Published: 21/04/2017

  2. Ep 034 - Anesthesiology with Dr. Daniel Lee

    Published: 14/04/2017

  3. Ep 033 - Orthopedic Surgery with Dr. Serena Hu

    Published: 07/04/2017

  4. Ep 032 - Urology with Dr. Ami Kilchevsky

    Published: 04/04/2017

  5. Ep 031 - Pediatrics with Dr. Vasudha Bhavaraju

    Published: 31/03/2017

  6. Ep 030 - Orthopedic Surgery of the Spine with Dr. Kelley Banagan

    Published: 24/03/2017

  7. Ep 029 - Head & Neck Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery with Dr. Chad Zender

    Published: 21/03/2017

  8. Ep 028 - Congenital Cardiac Surgery with Dr. Jeremy Herrmann

    Published: 17/03/2017

  9. Ep 027 - Hematology & Oncology with Dr. Shadia Jalal

    Published: 10/03/2017

  10. Ep 026 - Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism with Dr. Nadine El Asmar

    Published: 07/03/2017

  11. Ep 025 - Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery with Dr. Eugene Ceppa

    Published: 03/03/2017

  12. Ep 024 - Aerospace Medicine with Dr. Ryan Gray

    Published: 24/02/2017

  13. Ep 023 - Otolaryngology with Dr. Nicole Maronian

    Published: 21/02/2017

  14. Ep 022 - Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology with Dr. Michael Zacharias

    Published: 17/02/2017

  15. Ep 021 - Hospice and Palliative Medicine with Dr. Elizabeth Higgins

    Published: 10/02/2017

  16. Ep 020 - Pediatric Sports Medicine with Dr. Susannah Briskin

    Published: 07/02/2017

  17. Ep 019 - Cardiology with Dr. Richard Josephson

    Published: 03/02/2017

  18. Ep 018 - Child Neurology with Dr. Max Wiznitzer

    Published: 27/01/2017

  19. Ep 017 - Transplant Hepatology with Dr. Anthony Post

    Published: 20/01/2017

  20. Ep 016 - Family Medicine with Dr. Steve Brown

    Published: 13/01/2017

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The Undifferentiated Medical Student (TUMS) podcast is about helping medical students to choose a medical specialty and plan a career in medicine. The list of career options available to medical students is large, but the time to explore them all is short. Moreover, mentorship in medical school is lacking, and many medical students tackle the task of career planning alone, most struggling and almost all clutching to the hope that 3rd year clinical rotations will definitively resolve their remaining uncertainties about how they want to specialize. However, having been distracted by the relentless pace of their pre-clinical curricula and specter of Step 1, 3rd year medical students are eventually confronted with the reality that there are simply too many specialties to explore in one year and that they may not even get to finish their clinical rotations before important decisions about their careers need to be made (e.g., the planning of acting internships) if they are to be competitive applicants. Thus, mentorless and clinically unexposed, many medical students are forced to make wholly uninformed decisions about their futures. By interviewing at least one physician from each of the 120+ specialties listed on the AAMC's Careers in Medicine website 1) about their specialty, 2) how they decided this specialty was right for them, and 3) for advice about long-term career planning irrespective of the specialty they went into, this podcast aims to enumerate the details of every specialty and provide virtual mentorship on how best to go about moving past being an undifferentiated medical student.

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