History & Physical: The Official Medical Student Podcast of in-Training – in-Training

Oct 16 2017 10 ep. 797

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Medical School Relationships: Interview with Sarah Epstein

In this podcast episode, in-Training editor Amelia Mackarey has a conversation with Sarah Epstein, a marriage and family therapy intern and author of Love in the Time of Medical School, about managing relationships in medical school. If you are interested in contributing to History & Physical, please contact us at [email protected]. http://in-training.org/wp

Interview with Sanjay Sharma, MD, MSc (Epid), MBA

In this podcast episode, in-Training editor Amelia Mackarey has a conversation with Sanjay Sharma, MD, MSc (Epid), MBA, professor of Ophthalmology at Queen’s University and founder of MEDSKL, about trends in medical education and how MEDSKL can be used to improve your educational experience. If you are interested in contributing to History & Physical, please contact us at

Interview with Raj Gokal

Wearable technology is booming right now, Jawbone Up, Fuelbands, Fitbits, and even Samsung getting into the market. But what about medical wearables? Is there space for technology that creates continuous streams of clinical-grade data that health care professionals can utilize? And how can medical students get into that entrepreneurial space? We recently chatted with Raj Gokal, ent

Interview with Shiv Gaglani

This episode is the first in a series on entrepreneurship in medicine. Our guest Shiv Gaglani is a student at both the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Harvard Business School. His ventures include the medical education company Osmosis and site Quantified Care. He’s also editor at Medgadget, a blog about medical technology. We sat down with him and picked his b

Interview with Ajay Major and Aleena Paul

How are our digital networks changing the way we publicize our voices? And is it doing anything to the typical hierarchical structure of medicine? There’s a lot going on social media regarding sharing information, discussion and, most importantly, authorship. The typical notion of publication in medicine — getting an article or paper in a prestigious journal with high impac

Interview with Dr. Atul Grover

As the health care landscape evolves in the coming years, how will academic medicine adapt? And what do these tectonic shifts in health policy mean for medical students? This week on History & Physical, we’re joined by Dr. Atul Grover, the Chief Public Policy Officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Dr. Grover leads the public policy, strategy and outre

Interview with Dr. Bryan Vartabedian

As medicine moves into the 21st century, how will medical education adapt? Also, what is digital literacy, and what does it mean for the physician of tomorrow? Today, we have Dr. Bryan Vartabedian from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. When he’s not doing scopes as a pediatric gastroenterologist, Dr. Vartabedian blogs about the intersection of medicine and technol

Interview with Dr. Zubin Damania

What is it like being a superstar comedian in medicine, recovering from burnout, and starting a new model of health care delivery in Las Vegas? More importantly, what do Gangnam Style and Tupac Shakur have to do with medicine? I had a chance to sit down with Dr. Zubin Damania, a former hospitalist, comedian and rapper at ZDoggMD, and now co-founder of Turntable Health, a new revolu

Interview with Dr. Cranquis

How can humor provide a chance to humanize our experiences in medicine? Also, how does social media offer medical students new channels and communities for support? This week, History & Physical sits down with Dr. Cranquis, who has been called the “grandfather of the Tumblr ‘medblr’ community,” and is the dean of the Princeton-Medbloro Teaching Hospital, the first Tumbl

Interview with Dr. Danielle Ofri

This week on History & Physical, Kevin Wang interviews Dr. Danielle Ofri. Dr. Ofri is the author of The New York Times best-seller “What Doctors Feel,” editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review, contributor to The New York Times, associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine, and internist at Bellevue Hospital. Kevin and Dr. Ofri d