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The Undifferentiated Medical Student

The 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 long, 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 the 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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Dec 13, 2016

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COL Kenneth Azarow, MD

Dr. Azarow is the Surgeon-in-Chief of Doernbecher Children’s Hospital of the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon.

Dr. Azarow earned his undergraduate degree from Franklin and Marshal College is 1981; his medical degree form F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine of the Uniformed Services University 1987; completed his general surgery residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 1992, as well as a pediatric surgery fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario in 1996.

Upon completion of his fellowship, he was assigned to Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington where he was appointed as the director of the surgical research program and chief of pediatric surgery. While in the Army, he rose to become the general surgery residency director and, eventually, Chief of Surgery, and retired at the rank of Colonel in 2008 after a 25 year career in the military which saw him serve several tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and for which he received the Legion of Merit as well as dozens of other military awards. During this time, he oversaw 9 divisions, 5 residency programs, and was responsible for the smooth delivery of surgical education, research, and care during the constant movement of faculty due to the war on terrorism.

From a pediatric surgery standpoint, his paper on Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia entitled ”Tale of Two Cities: The Toronto Experience” is considered a classic work in the field and has helped guide the field away from ECMO usage and towards a pulmonary protective strategy with the use of conventional ventilators in neonates. His C.V. also currently lists over 75 peer-reviewed journal citations, over 25 book chapters, and 100s of presentations and invited named lectures.

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