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Welcome to Season 3! To kick off this season, we hand off the mic to three incredible URiM (underrepresented in medicine) undergraduate pre-med students to share their journeys into the medical field. We hear about their common challenges, their strong sense of purpose to be a physician advocate for their community, and about their vision to improve the diversity and inclusivity of the medical field. This episode will leave you inspired!
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Show Notes
[00:00] Intro
- Introduction to season 3 and the episode
[04:28] Elizza’s URiM story
- Responsibility to increase diversity and inclusion: Elizza tells us about how her negative experiences with being treated as a ‘second-class citizen’ in the healthcare system motivate her to become a physician so she can increase diversity and inclusion as well as bridge disparities in healthcare.
[09:19] Myles’s URiM story
- Role of support and advocacy: Myles recalls the support system that allowed him to navigate the pre-med process and his desire to advocate for his community as a physician.
[16:25] Jana’s URiM story
- Importance of mentorship and programs that target URiM pre-meds: Jana shares how her mentors inspired her to pursue physician leadership roles and the importance of programs targeting URiM pre-meds in increasing diversity and inclusion in medicine.
[21:59] Closing Statements
- Discussion of themes present in the URiM pre-meds’ stories
- Exposure to the medical field through family experiences with illness and/or employment in healthcare
- Desire to pursue medicine to advocate not just for themselves and their families, but also their communities
- Knowledge of implicit and explicit biases as well as individual and systemic inequity in healthcare
- Programs that outreach to URiM pre-meds are tools to increase diversity and inclusion in medicine
[33:56] Outro
Credits:
Guests: Elizza, Myles, Jana
Co-Hosts/Producers: Dr. Pooja Jaeel, Dr. Maggie Kozman,
Executive Producer: Dr. Tammy Lin
Co-Executive Producers: Dr. Pooja Jaeel, Dr. Tiffany Leung
Senior Producers: Dr. DJ Gaines, Dr. Maggie Kozman
Editor/Assistant Producers: Emily Han, Joanna Jain
Production Assistants: Likitha Aradhyula, Lynn Nguyen
Website/Art Design: Ann Truong
Music: Chris Dingman
Special Thanks: Dr. Brittane Parker, Oye Bosompra, and Nyah Rodman
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