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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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Ep 012 - Being a Woman in Surgery with Dr. Jamie Coleman 0
Dec 16, 2016

Dr. Coleman is a trauma and acute care surgeon, as well as an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.

She completed her medical degree at the University of Tennessee in Memphis in 2005; completed a general surgery residency at the Rush University/Cook County Hospital in 2010; and then a trauma and surgical critical care fellowship at Emory University Grady Memorial Hospital in 2012.

Dr. Coleman is also a wife, mother, and writer, with over 2 million views of her work on her blog at www.heelskicksscalpel.com. She has also contributed articles to the Huffington Post, Forbes, KevinMD.com and LinkedIn. Lastly, she is the co-host of the Careercast podcast of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

Please enjoy with Dr. Jamie Coleman!

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