Academic Medicine Podcast

Being Intentional: How Space, Place, and Pace Influence Equity in Workplace-Based Assessment

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Discussing new research into how the physical and social context of the clinical learning environment shape power dynamics and influence equity in ass...

A Big Deal

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our stories make us human and shape the doctors we become. Yet, we rarely let our pasts show from beneath our white coats. Sydney Katz reflects on h...

Presence Beyond Language: A Medical Student's First Day in Clinic

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Although discussions about language services like interpreters or translators, patient–provider concordance, and linguistic equity merit much great...

Denatured

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When I am in the hospital, there is at least a semblance of humanity. In a room with a patient, there is the possibility of the unexpected. Alone wit...

Picturing Practice as a Medical Student

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As I brought the blade to the patient, I tried to infer the right depth, weight, and speed by matching to my pictured recollection of all the other i...

Reflections After Testifying at an Asylum Hearing

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

My hope is that, by learning to recognize how physicians interface with injustice in systems early in their training, learners will be better prepare...

Trust the Process

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the years since this experience ... I have sought to encourage trainees and students to reorient their focus from patient outcomes as a referendum...

Transitioning Identities: The Dual Identities of Medical Student Parents

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Discussing a new study into how medical student parents navigate their dual identities as physicians-in-training and parents are author Emily Carroll,...

The "Uninsured" Patient

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I never saw Andrew after that night, but I think of him often. I hope that our interaction played a small part in getting him the care he needed. Su...

The Lure of Lore: How Medical Students Learn to Navigate Interprofessional Interactions

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Discussing a new study that explores medical student learning during interprofessional interactions in clinical clerkships are author Kelsey Miller, M...

The Anatomy of Gratitude

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For the first time, we began to understand not just their bodies and illnesses but their lives as joyful parents, enthusiastic musicians, expert race ...

This Academic Life

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are taught to think about what needs to be done in order for our patient to go home when we are on the wards, yet there is no care meeting, discha...

To Empty A Wheelchair

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout my medical training, I vow to make an effort to actively pursue each patient's full story. To cleave only the fragments of their existence...

Delusions of Reference

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Regardless of how difficult medicine is, each small step we take to listen, be compassionate, have patience, and advocate is meaningful, even if we m...

Incorporating Art into Medical Education: The Artists' Perspective

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Artists Rachel Mindrup, MFA, and Tuyet-Minh Tran, MD, discuss their artwork that was featured on the cover of Academic Medicine. They explore the insp...

The Gift

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I, like others in medical education, had the misconception that wellness could solely be achieved by separating work from "real life." I thought I ne...

Dealing With Medical Realities—Pessimism or Realism?

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I had not role modeled cynicism or pessimism. Rather, my student's statement was a sign of learning and understanding what I had taught: processing a...

Key Features and Outcomes of Accelerated 3-Year MD Programs

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Authors Joan Cangiarella, MD, and Catherine Coe, MD, and medical student Lily Ge discuss the goals, features, evolution, and outcomes to date of accel...

Navigating the Shadow Economy of Effort in the Residency Application and Selection Process

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Authors Eric Warm, MD, and David Hirsh, MD, and medical student Kate Jennings join host Toni Gallo to discuss the unintended consequences of the shift...

My First Foley

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As I reflect on my initial years of training, I am deeply moved by the kindness that surrounded me, especially during hands-on interactions with pati...

Cup of Tea?

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In some ways, I walked a mile in the refugee doctors' shoes. I learned about culture through my mistakes instead of being explicitly taught. Although...

Innovations in Education Scholarship and Scholarly Publishing: A Conversation with Lauren Maggio, PhD, MS

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lauren Maggio, PhD, MS(LIS), joins host Toni Gallo to discuss open science and innovations in education scholarship and scholarly publishing, includin...

The Tattooed Connection: Nurturing Curiosity in Medicine

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Above all, the impact of this initial connection between us on his engagement in the care journey filled me with a profound sense of accomplishment. ...

Baby J's Song

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I realize it's my calling to hear heartache, but it's also my calling to feel hope, see beauty, and experience life in its entirety. Final-year Doct...

The Cat

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is an unspoken understanding that nursing is both an art and a science. Often, you will be called to use your critical-thinking skills and trai...

Apartment 5 on Dolphin Drive

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Something special happens when you work in the field. It speaks to you. It calls on the bounty of your generosity. It coaxes you to the precipice of ...

"Rediscovering My Why": Exploring the Role of the Arts and Humanities in Residency Training

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Orr, MD, MSEd, and Dorene Balmer, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss their study of a longitudinal arts and humanities curriculum for interna...

Rethinking Assessment and Supporting Learners Through Failure and Remediation

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lynnea Mills, MD, joins host Toni Gallo to discuss her new study of medical students' experiences of failure and remediation in the United States and ...

A Quiet Place

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Whenever I pass that room, though, I will think of it as G.'s. A sacred sanctuary—where medicine, care plans, and labels like "incontinent" and "te...

Fostering Belonging: Perceptions of Disability Inclusion in Medical Education Among Students With Disabilities

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Neera Jain, PhD, MS, and Erene Stergiopoulos, MD, MA, join host Toni Gallo to discuss their new study of the experiences of students with disabilities...

Accessibility and Inclusion in the Clinical Learning Environment

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Theresa Papich, MD, Lisa Meeks, PhD, MA, and Timothy Gilbert, MD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss fostering an accessible and inclusive learning envir...

Running the (Check)List

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The complicated positionality of a learner in medicine means that our fingerprints are always there, regardless of the role. And while it is never doc...

There Is Always a Lesson

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As I enter my final year of medical school reflecting on how I plan to care for patients, I will remember the importance of seeing the patient as a wh...

Putting Learners in the Driver's Seat for the Next Era of Assessment and Precision Education

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kayla Marcotte, MS, Jose Negrete Manriquez, MD, MPP, Maya Hunt, MD, Max Spadafore, MD, and Dan Schumacher, MD, PhD, MEd, join host Toni Gallo to discu...

Near Naked Vulnerability

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We must find the moments in medical education where we all can be models of thoughtful exposure, risking vulnerability and emphasizing our shared huma...

Presence With Patients is a Gift: Building Meaningful Patient Relationships

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Katherine Chretien, MD, Grant Wilson, MD, and Michelle York, MD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss building meaningful relationships with patients, the ...

What Cancer Did Not Teach Me

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For those who do excellent work, but quietly, and sometimes under the radar, the simple phrase, confidently stated—"You are in good hands"—can mak...

Our Achilles' Heel: Vulnerability and Medical Uncertainty

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rather than sheltering me from the rigors of doctoring, the museum has deepened my relationship to medicine by restoring its inherent mystery. It remi...

Pain, Palliative Care, and Practicing Empathy

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Through all the time I had known him, and through all the rounds and presentations, many voices were heard: my own, my senior resident, my attending, ...

Language Equity in Medical Education

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pilar Ortega, MD, MGM, Débora Silva, MD, MEd, and Bright Zhou, MD, MS, join host Toni Gallo to discuss strategies to address language-related health ...

A Familiar Question

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I started this letter with a question, but I pray not for an answer. I cannot accept one. Instead, please give me the strength to replace the wet mask...

Seeing Death for the First Time

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As medical students, we know of death. We study anatomy through cadaver lab, we memorize mortality rates of diseases, and we hear stories from our pro...

The Closeted Curriculum

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I wonder what would change if students were taught that personal leadership was not about hiding their brokenness, but recognizing their wholeness. If...

Biopsy

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What if I had not been at an academic institution, with a learner and a supervising teacher? Whose steadying hand would have been on my leg? I needed ...

The Window

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When we really love it, we lend a little bit of ourselves, a little bit of our souls to the work that we do—to the art of nursing. If it is not us t...

I See You

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Psychiatry was going to require all of me... To see the human body as more than machine. Yes, the heart is a pump, and our neurons entangle one anothe...

Do What You Do Better: Using AI Tools to Ease the Workload Burden on Faculty

13 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Christy Boscardin, PhD, Brian Gin, MD, PhD, Marc Triola, MD, and Academic Medicine assistant editor Gustavo Patino, MD, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to ...

The Nail Salon

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As Mr. D. stood up and attempted a few steps, tears of joy went down his cheeks. He was now free from the claws that were making his life miserable. T...

The Unspoken Language of Compassion

20 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our suffering, sadness, and silence, we shared a language of humanity and we exchanged compassion ... It is this vulnerability, this deep and genui...

Put Some Gloves On

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As I traverse the many years of medical training ahead of me, I will undoubtedly remember my week in anesthesiology, and commit to passing on my knowl...

That Was Terrible: Public Humiliation in Preclinical Education

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I tell my students that we are constellations of our peers, mentors, and patients. What we learn from each other in preclinical education—spanning n...

Faculty Perspectives on Responding to Microaggressions Targeting Clerkship Students

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meghan O'Brien, MD, MBE, and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee members Tasha Wyatt, PhD, and Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, join host Toni Gall...

Faculty and Student Perceptions of Unauthorized Collaborations

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Carrie Chen, MD, PhD, Terry Kind, MD, MPH, and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee members Cha-Chi Fung, PhD, and Daniele Ölveczky, MD, MS...

Learner Perspectives on the Learner Handover Process

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tammy Shaw, MD, MMed, and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee member Arianne Teherani, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss new research in...

The Momentum of Human Kindness

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I am not sure whether she attended my graduation, but her words were with me then and have remained with me throughout my decade-long career. Each ti...

The Gift of Grief

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We come into medicine wanting to heal our patients, believing that we are here solely to help them. But I could not heal my patient. Instead, my pati...

Ensuring Fairness in Medical Education Assessment

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a companion to the August 2023 Ensuring Fairness in Medical Education Assessment supplement, which was sponsored by the Josiah Macy Jr...

When the Student Gave Me Feedback

04 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On a Thursday afternoon in clinic, in a situation made for learning, not grading, my learner taught me the essence of effective formative feedback. An...

Pink Toenails on a Tuesday

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The next day, I knocked on the door of Room 412 armed with a bottle of baby blue nail polish. Not an elixir, but an oath—to face the unknown togethe...

A Note to My Daughters

07 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There will be a day when you are overlooked. You are not chosen. You will have worked hard, put in the time, been the next in line, and been ready, ea...

Thinking on Your Feet Well: Building Adaptive Expertise in Learners Using Simulation

24 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Clarke, MD, MAS, and Jon Ilgen, MD, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss the importance of teaching adaptive expertise to prepare learners for the...

When You Have No Words

10 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Shifting eyes, quivering lips, and fidgeting fingers can tell a million stories, but only if we open our eyes to those who are silently asking for hel...

In Gratitude to the Patients Who Teach Us How to Be Wrong

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This family taught me that it is exactly these patients—who are rightfully frustrated and afraid—who will push us and our institutions to improve....

Ask the Editors: Striving for Clarity in Designing and Reporting Quantitative Research

12 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Academic Medicine's editors–Colin West, MD, PhD, Yoon Soo Park, PhD, Jonathan Amiel, MD​, and Gustavo Patino, MD, PhD–join host Toni Gallo to sh...

Pumped on Surgical Sub Internships

29 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Small gestures, such as sparking a conversation when a student volunteers a personal detail, cultivate a welcoming and inclusive environment. Performi...

Ask the Editors: Practical Guidance for Designing and Reporting Qualitative Research

15 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Academic Medicine's editors--Bridget O'Brien, PhD, Jonathan Amiel, MD​, Megan Brown, MBBS(H), PhD, and Laura Hirshfield, PhD--join host Toni Gallo t...

When the Grass Stained Football Jersey Replaces the White Coat

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It is my hope that continuing to play with some dirt on my uniform will model to others that they can pick themselves up after they are knocked down a...

Sick Day Shame: A Swinging Pendulum

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The next time that I am unwell, I will take a real sick day—and I hope my colleagues, students, and resident physicians see it. Kathryn Rampon refle...

The Silent Room

10 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As medical professionals, our patients are putting their trust in us at their most vulnerable moments. It is our responsibility to handle that trust w...

An Audio Abstract of "Rejecting Reforms, Yet Calling for Change: A Qualitative Analysis of Proposed Reforms to the Residency Application Process"

03 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Author Michael Gisondi, MD, provides an overview of this recently published qualitative study in which he and his coauthors examined key stakeholders'...

Connections

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Since 2020, learning to treat patients with COVID-19 reminds me that we remain humble learners of medicine. All our resources have been stretched—ro...

Moments that Matter

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As medical professionals, it is tempting to cultivate a razor-sharp focus on symptoms and diagnoses. Robby helped me realize our former approach was l...

Prayer and Care: Faith as a Form of Culturally Competent Care

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Faith is relevant to the clinical interaction when it gives patients and clinicians a shared ground upon which to stand in the midst of chaos, and my ...

Prayers and Tuna Melts

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When we form enriched relationships, we allow ourselves to feel grief for the patients we lose, and likewise, joy for the patients who leave healthier...

What's On Your Plate? Culinary Medicine as an Innovative Nutrition Education Model

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Guests Courtney Newman and Jaclyn Albin, MD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss culinary medicine and its role in teaching nutrition, nutrition counselin...

Genetics Lessons From Rare Patients

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Every now and then, a patient will bring me new insights and knowledge, such as lessons on rare diseases that I would not have learned if I had not se...

Medicine Where it Matters

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Medical students … need to build out reality-based curricula that equip future physicians to provide trauma-informed, harm-reductionist care. Patien...

The Sound of My Voice

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this remarkable day, however, it was clear. This woman knew who I was, months later and from only the sound of my voice, proving to me for the firs...

Seeing Color

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As faculty, we are called to instruct and mentor students. And yet ... B, my colleagues, and friends of color have taught me lessons of far greater im...

Learning Curve

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

My experience that night in the ICU was the wake-up call I needed. It was a reminder to shift my priorities back to the patient. It was a reminder tha...

She Served Him Well

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

She is a strong woman. The strongest woman I've probably ever met. Her strength is in her joyful spirit and the kindness she exudes to everyone she me...

As the Sun Sets

02 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When I think back on my career thus far, I do not remember the shifts that I left early or the days when everything went perfectly. But when Willie Ne...

Writing Effectively and Navigating the Publication Process: Advice from the Editors of Academic Medicine

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The editors of Academic Medicine share their advice for authors submitting their scholarship for publication and describe what they look for when they...

The Light

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What I do know is in the desert of the Middle East I learned that the right decision isn't always the easiest or most appealing. Our patients don't ne...

Religious Coverings in the OR and ICU: Unveiling the Need for Updates in Medical Education

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There is growth in speaking up for myself and others in my position, but I do not want to have to sacrifice inner serenity as the price of advocacy. R...

The Joy of Clinical Trials

28 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This one, brief moment opened me up to the greatest sense of appreciation; regardless of the treatment arm, role, or results, it is the journey we emb...

Exploring Our Ways of Knowing: About the Research Methodologies Used in HPE Publications

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Heeyoung Han, PhD, joins hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee members Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, and Andres Fernand...

The Power of Our Words

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Medical practitioners of all specialties may lack Cassandra's divinely inspired prophetic powers, but our training, research, and deep consideration f...

A Letter to Doctor William Schwab (on Mentorship…)

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Maybe this letter is more a letter to myself, a reminder … that mentorship is the key to training good, competent, humane surgeons. That this extra ...

Every Patient After

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The medical record from the day before includes a note from the chaplain who wrote that you smiled. I resolve to end more notes this way. The patient ...

Including Standardized Patients With Diverse Gender Identities in Simulation Cases

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Guests Luca Petrey and Laura Weingartner, PhD, MS, join hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee members Arianne Teherani, ...

When You Smile at Misfortune

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It is more likely emotional overload rather than apathy or insensitivity that prompts these contradictory expressions of emotion. An involuntary attem...

Reading Beyond the Medical Chart

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

So often, we get caught up in studying and updating the medical chart. When we get to know our patients as human beings, however, we realize that prov...

The Value of Hope

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I was glad that I was too tired to speak at the close of the day, because by listening, I learned a lesson in humility. Madam A's family was more know...

Fostering Psychological Safety in the Clinical Learning Environment

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Guests Addie McClintock, MD, and Joshua Jauregui, MD, join hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee members Andrea Leep, MD...

How Is Residency? Life as a COVID-19 Intern

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As I progress through my training, I see more clearly how I benefited from my intern year; my comfort with ventilator settings and ability to navigate...

Nephrotic Nightmares

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Remembering my own medical experiences is an insistent reminder that disease is not mundane, no matter how desensitized we may grow to it. Tom Fouché...

Educating Physicians About Firearm Safety and Injury Prevention

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Guests Katherine Hoops, MD, MPH, Andra Blomkalns, MD, MBA, and Allison Augustus-Wallace, PhD, MS, MNS, join host Toni Gallo to talk about firearm safe...

Battle for the Faculty Soul

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When faculty members open themselves up to the idea that the work we do in seemingly different realms can actually enhance our practice, we arguably d...

The Light

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After this patient encounter, I came to realize that my greatest strength, my finest therapeutic tool, was me—all of me. Omar Sahak, a first-year fe...