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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 014 - Infectious Diseases with Dr. Robert Kalayjian 0
Dec 30, 2016

Show Notes can be found at undifferentiatedmedicalstudent.com!

Dr. Kalayjian is the Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, OH, as well as an Associate Professor of Infectious Disease at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Dr. Kalayjian received his undergraduate degree from Boston University in 1978; his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1982; completed his residency in internal medicine in 1985 and a fellowship in infectious diseases in 1991, both at University Hospitals of Cleveland.

Dr. Kalayjian is the recipient of the Voices Against the Silence Award for his work in improving the quality of life of those living with HIV/AIDS in Northeast Ohio. He has also been recognized by Best Doctors in America 6 times, most recently in 2014. In addition to being the recipient of many teaching awards, Dr. Kalayjian is also the Lead instructor of the Microbiology and Immunology sections of the School of Medicine’s basic science curriculum.

Please enjoy with Dr. Robert Kalayjian!

Also, sorry about the sirens.

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