#AcademicLifeHacks: A Podcast About Tips and Tricks to Thrive in Academic Medicine
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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast
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Why did the hosts celebrate Alex Smith’s Yoshikawa Award and how does it relate to academic life hacks?
The Jerry Powell Podcast is brought to you by Archstone Foundation, improving the health and wellbeing of older Californians and their caregivers.
Welcome to the Jerry Powell Podcast. This is Eric Badera. This is Alex Smith. Today, we have a very special episode. We're going to be talking about academic life hacks, specifically for fellows and junior faculty, but really for anyone that we're going to be asking our guests and hopefully have a conversation online on Twitter using the hashtag academic life hacks to talk about our own tips and tricks in succeeding in academic medicine. So, Alex, who do we have with us on our podcast today?
Today, we are delighted to welcome from Archstone Foundation, Chris Langston, who is president and CEO of Archstone. We should note, of course, as we did in our intro, that we are funded by Archstone. Welcome to the Jerry Powell podcast, Chris. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here. And we are delighted to welcome back to the Jerry Pal podcast, Lynn Flint, who is in the Division of Geriatrics as a palliative medicine physician and runs the Jerry Pal Fellowship in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Welcome back to the Jerry Pal podcast, Lynn.
Thank you.
And we're delighted to welcome back Ken Kavinsky, who is a longtime commenter, host occasionally, and guest on the Jerry Pal podcast as a geriatrician researcher at UCSF in the Division of Geriatrics. Welcome back, Ken.
Thank you, Alex. And I'll just say I'm a little relieved because I misunderstood the topic today. I thought the topic was academic hacks. And I was feeling a little threatened that I was a guest for that topic. I don't understand this better. I'm feeling a lot better about
myself. Well, Ken, how about I actually explain how we decided to do this show? Because it's going to be a little bit of a surprise, maybe even for Alex. So just to let our listeners know that Alex got a particularly important award in 2021 at the AGS meeting, which was the Thomas and Catherine Ushikawa Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in Clinical Investigation. As part of this award, he talked about confessions of an unfocused researcher. So we're going to be talking a little bit about his talk. But we also got an email from Jolene Fassbender from the Artstone Foundation who said, you know what, maybe we can just take a couple moments on the show. just recognize Alex for his award and talk about, again, some of these academic tips and tricks and some of the things that he talked about.
So in preparation for this, just to give people a little bit of ins of how this podcast works, we've had both Lynn Flint and Ken Kavinsky give Alex a bunch of songs that Lynn, which song did you request for Alex?
Toxic by Britney Spears.
Ken had a string of songs.
I tortured Alex with a whole string of Chicago-based songs.
But given that we do want to recognize Alex, we've actually asked his kids to play his favorite song. So Alex, I know we asked you to sing a song. We're not going to do this today because we have both Ren and Kai on. Alex, maybe you can describe this once I finish. I'm just going to play a little bit. We'll play the whole song at the end of the podcast.
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it right there. Alex. I had no idea this was happening. What? Here I am ready to play Sweet Home Chicago for the third time. Wow. Thank you. That is sweet. I didn't know the kids did that either. This is a total surprise.
Alex, can you just describe why is that your favorite song?
Well played. That's The Beauty of Mauna Kea. And this is a song that's written by Keola Beamer. We've seen him a few times in concert. For those of you who don't know, Mauna Kea is the largest volcano on the island of Hawaii, the Big Island. where I was born. And it's a beautiful mountain and a beautiful song. So thank you so much for that, kids. And for you for surprising me with that. Wow. Thank you.
Well, Alex, I think we're going to go into academic life hacks. I just want to take a couple minutes just to say it's really been an honor working with you and being part of the solar system that surrounds you.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did the hosts celebrate Alex Smith’s Yoshikawa Award and how does it relate to academic life hacks?
0:01–7:01
2
How do the guests define and balance academic focus versus being a generalist?
7:01–13:22
3
What strategies do mentors and mentees use to create effective mentorship relationships?
13:22–20:45
4
How can early‑career faculty develop and submit scholarly work without a traditional research track?
20:45–29:11
5
What practical tips do the panelists share for writing, publishing, and handling journal rejections?
29:11–35:47
6
How can clinicians build collaborations and networks inside and outside their institution?
35:47–42:33
7
What work‑life balance hacks do the speakers use to stay productive and healthy?
42:33–48:19
8
How can listeners contribute their own academic life hacks on Twitter?
48:19–55:56
Speakers
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