What Brings You In Today?
Episodes
The Wellness Wheel (Part 2)
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Join Beth, Kya, Shree, and Jackie as they continue the discussion on wellness in medical school, specifically surrounding maintaining creativity in le...
The Wellness Wheel (Part 1)
25 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The 8 Dimensions of Wellness (emotional, environmental, financial, intellectual, occupational, physical, social, and spiritual) is one framework for u...
Food Insecurity with Rhonda Adams
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of WBYIT we chat with Rhonda Adams, executive director of The River Food Pantry. Rhonda shares some of the beautiful lessons and stori...
Reboot: On the Road to Residency
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Beth and Kya as they catch up on where their paths in medicine have taken them, and as they share some of their favorite stories from working wit...
The Healer’s Art: A Conversation with Dr. Vincent Minichiello
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Beth sits down with Dr. Vincent Minichiello to discuss his unique approach to integrating the art of healing with modern medicine. ...
S5E1: Welcome Back!
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this welcome-back episode, hosts Kya and Beth kick off the new season with a reflective conversation about their recent clinical rotations—sharin...
Integrative Medicine with Dr. Greta Kuphal
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode Kya and Beth talk to one of their mentors, Dr. Greta Kuphal, about integrative medicine. We discuss Dr. Kuphal's jour...
'On Loneliness' with Calvin Lam
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode, we discuss the topic of loneliness with Calvin Lam, PGY-1 in Neurology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Calvin recently wr...
Relationships in Medical School: Clinical Rotations Edition
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode, in honor of Valentine's Day, we're bringing back a fun-loving episode from last year with a twist: relationship...
Growth in January: Reflections on Rotations with Beth and Kya
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of WBYIT, we are keeping it in the family as Beth and Kya check in with each other now that their first month of rotations is nearly o...
Growth in January: Reflections on Rotations with Haley Strouf-Motley
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are back after a much-needed holiday break! We are kicking off the second half of this season talking about growth, an especially pertinent topic a...
Mental Health During the Holidays: Disordered Eating with Dr. Mara Esber
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode, we discuss the topic of disordered thinking with Dr. Mara Esber, clinical psychologist. Beth, Kya, and Dr. Esber discuss how...
Mental Health During the Holidays: Substance Use Disorders with Dani Miller and Dr. Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For our December series, we will be focusing on mental health during the holidays. Our first episode discusses the topic of substance use disorders wi...
Networking with Dr. Mary Westergaard and Dr. Cathy Lee-Miller
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our second episode of our networking series features UW’s very own Academic Career Advising Program (ACAP) mentors, Dr. Cathy Lee-Miller and Dr. Mar...
Networking in November with Dr. Lisa Whitty-Bradley
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The chilly weather kicks off our November series on networking! On this episode, Deejay and Beth chat with Dr. Lisa Whitty-Bradley, plastic surgeon an...
Medical Education Matters with Michael Braun and Jeff Amundson
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode, we have a discussion about the world of medical education with Michael Braun and Jeff Amundson from the podcast “Medical E...
A Night of Storytelling with the Gold Humanism Honor Society
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode, WBYIT sits in on the Gold Humanism Honor Society's Night of Storytelling, an evening celebrating the stories of thos...
Introduction to AI Part 2 with Dr. Peter Kleinschmidt
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode, we continue our conversation on the integration of artificial intelligence in medicine with our guest, Internal Medicine ...
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Sophia Doerr
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back! Kicking off our first episode of the season, we approach the ever-hot topic of artificial intelligence with UW’s very own Sophia Doer...
Student Perspectives on Graduating from Medical School
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we continue our exploration of transitions. Recent UWSMPH graduate Megan Murphy-Belcaster joins us to share her views on transitioning...
Student Perspectives on Entering Medical School
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Spring is a time of growth and transition, and that is true for health professions students too! From incoming M1s deciding on a medical school to gra...
Lessons from Body Donors: Student Reflections
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the university‘s annual body donor ceremony approaches, we are continuing our exploration of education with body donors in the world of anatomy. ...
The Gift of Body Donation with Dr. Meghan Cotter
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every April, the University of Wisconsin - Madison holds a ceremony to honor our first patients as health professional students. These patients, who c...
BEAM and Mentorship: Dr. Patricia Téllez-Girón and Juan Aguirre
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As we close out March, we continue to explore the theme of mentorship. We are joined again by guest host Deejay, a first year medical student and memb...
Dr. Angela Byars-Winston on The Science of Mentorship
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This March, we are exploring the theme of mentorship. We are joined by two guest hosts, Deejay and Andrew, who are both first-year medical students an...
Finding The Light: Discussing Inspiration with Steven Truong
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our second episode exploring the theme of inspiration, we chat with Stanford MD-PhD student Steven Truong. He shares with us his reflections on his...
Dr. Jasmine Zapata on Finding Inspiration
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re kicking off February by exploring the theme of inspiration. What inspires us to pursue careers in medicine? How do we keep going when things g...
Doing New Things with Sue Yi
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we continue our exploration of doing new things by chatting with Sue Yi, an 8th year MD/PhD student at University of Wisconsin-Madison...
Doing New Things with Dr. Lisa Barroilhet
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our first episodes of 2023, we are exploring the experience of doing new things. January is often a time of change, whether it’s the start of a n...
Siblings As Support Systems
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This holiday season, we’ve been thinking a lot about our loved ones, and the ways that they support us in our journeys in medicine. So to look more ...
Significant Others as Support Systems
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This holiday season, we’ve been thinking a lot about our loved ones, and the ways that they support us in our journeys in medicine. So to look more ...
Physician Advocacy with Senator Kelda Roys
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our three-part series on advocacy and civic engagement by talking with Wisconsin State Senator Kelda Roys about her views on and experienc...
Voting with Sam Crowley
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s election season, so let's talk about voting! In this episode, we talk with Sam Crowley, MPH, a second year medical student at University o...
"Winter of Fear" with Allison Coffelt
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we continue our celebration of Spooky season by exploring the concept of fear in medicine with Allison Coffelt, an award winning auth...
"Reasons to be Fearful" with Dr. Helen Salisbury
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’re kicking off spooky season by exploring fear in medicine. In this episode, Dr. Helen Salisbury shares her essay titled “Reasons to be Fearful...
Outside of Class: Extracurriculars in Medical School
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore extracurriculars in medical school by chatting with leaders of two student organizations at UW SMPH, Scrubs Addressing the...
Outside of Class: Hobbies in Medical School
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To kick off Season 3 of What Brings You In Today, we are exploring hobbies and extracurriculars in medical school. In this episode, we talk to Mallory...
LGBTQ+ Representation in Medicine: A student’s perspective
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Pride Month! In this episode, we talk with Micah Larson (they/them), a recently graduated medical student from UWSMPH about their experiences in...
"My Life, My Story": Telling Veterans' Stories
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stories help us better connect with patients, build community with our peers, and process our own experiences in healthcare. In this episode, we conti...
A Night of Storytelling
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stories are fundamental to what it means to be human and to be human in medicine. Stories help us understand our patients, find community amongst our ...
An Unexpected Destination: Greg Raupp's nontraditional road to medical school
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our second episode this month, we continue our conversation about alternative career paths in medicine. We had the pleasure of talking with Greg Ra...
Stepping Off the Conveyor Belt: Dr. Seema Yasmin on alternative careers in medicine
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode exploring alternative paths in medicine, we had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Seema Yasmin, an Emmy-award winning journalist, author, me...
Post-Match Day
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From Monday, when students learned if they had matched, to Friday, when they gathered with family, friends, and peers to celebrate where they matched,...
Pre-Match Day
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On Match Day, medical students around the country find out their residency training placements. While Match Day is usually a day full of celebration, ...
Gratitude in Medicine
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Solidarity Week for Compassionate Patient Care is a nationwide celebration organized by the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) that promotes clini...
Modern Love in Medicine
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this special Valentine’s Day episode, we’re talking about love in medicine! As medical students, we spend so much time and energy focusing on o...
Ableism in Medicine with the Disability Advocacy Coalition
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In part 2 of our series "Doctors as Patients," we continue to explore how medical students and residents with chronic illness navigate tra...
"Rewriting My Story": Doctors as Patients with Justin Bullock
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses mental health, depression, and suicide. National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 800-273-8255In medical training, we are taught ho...
Learning from Failure in Medicine
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our ability to grow and learn from error is as human as the errors themselves. For part 3 of our series on Failure in Medicine, we focus on how medica...
Failure in Medical School with Percy Takyi
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While many medical students struggle academically at some point during their training, open conversations about failing exams or courses are few and f...
Saying Sorry: Failure in Medicine
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Humanity and human interactions make medicine beautiful, but they also make error and failure inevitable parts of the field. Failures in medicine rang...
Social Media in PreMed Advising with Maggie Waters
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Technology has changed the way we practice medicine—from electronic medical records and virtual video appointments to social media providing online ...
#MedTok: Medical TikTok with Alex Hua, MD
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As part 1 of a series of episodes exploring the complex roles for technology and social media in medicine, we take a deep dive into a relatively new...
A Conversation with Dr. Emily Silverman, Creator of the Nocturnists
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As an internal medicine resident at the University of California, San Fransisco, Dr. Emily Silverman created the Nocturnists, a narrative medicine pod...
The WBYIT Guide to Starting Medical School
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We begin Season 2 by talking with the people at the beginning of their medical school journeys: the new M1s at the University of Wisconsin School of M...
Unscripted: Improv in Medicine
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To a lot of medical students, the thought of taking an improv class might seem initially terrifying, then intriguing, and then terrifying again. Our g...
Funny Bone: Comedy Writing in Medicine
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From physician comedians like Ken Jeong and Adam Kay to sitcoms like Scrubs, there’s a long tradition of overlap between the worlds of comedy and me...
Let's Talk: Mental Health in Medical Training
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode contains content related to mental health and depression.National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 800-273-8255While medical students experien...
"The Gift of Time": Mental Health in Medical Training
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode contains content related to mental health and depression.National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 800-273-82551 in 4 medical students around ...
The Physician Artist: Creativity in Medicine with Dr. Shirlene Obuobi
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From anatomical drawings to narrative medicine, there’s a long tradition of overlap between medicine and the visual arts—a tradition that Dr. Shir...
The Student Perspective: Creativity in Medicine
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From studying powerpoint slides to UWorld questions, healthcare training doesn’t always leave room for creativity—and students notice. In parts 1 ...
The Flow State: Creativity in Medicine with Dr. Joshua Mezrich
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a term in positive psychology called the “flow state” that describes the unique, entrancing feeling of total captivation and absorption ...
The Missing Ingredient: Creativity in Medicine with Dr. Anne Jacobson
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In medical school school, we get really good at knowing the facts—at answering questions on rounds and picking A instead of B, C, or D. The parts of...
Meaning Behind the Memes: Medical Memes with Dr. Yekki Song
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Memes may seem like all fun and games, but, like other forms of narrative medicine, medical memes discuss important themes and problems medical studen...
BONUS EPISODE: Making Medical Memes with @Memeology.MD
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode continues our conversation with the creator of @Memeology. MD, a popular medical meme page on Instagram, about the world of medical mem...
Down the Rabbit Hole: Medical Memes with @Memeology.MD
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From #MedTwitter to Instagram, social media has helped create new ways for medical professionals to share their ideas and stories about studying and w...
M2 and M3: New Year
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In honor of the new year, we asked four UWSMPH medical students to write about their 2020 and hopes for 2021—and they delivered. Our last episode fe...
M1 and M4: New Year
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
2021: oh, how we have been waiting for you! The new year is time for reflection and anticipation, so we asked four medical students from UWSMPH—each...
Stories as Medicine: Death and Dignity
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stories are powerful. They help us connect, energize, and heal. As a Clinical Social Worker at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center train...
Words Matter: Death and Dignity
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We use a lot of euphemisms to talk about dying: "we are at the end" or "there is nothing more we can do." Maybe because talking ab...
Final Moments: Death and Dignity
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In medical school, we learn about the science of death. We learn about the electrochemical changes in heart cells as EKG waves transition to asystole ...
"Treat People Not Illness:" Health Policy
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Compared to other high income countries, the United States pays far more for its healthcare only to suffer worse health outcomes. For health policy ex...
Health or Wealth: Health Policy
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Working in the United States healthcare system, we've all seen patients forced to choose between medical care and financial ruin. What toll does ...
Institutional Changes for Institutional Problems: Racism in Medicine
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Institutional problems like racism in medicine demand swift and decisive institutional efforts aimed at making our educational and patient care system...
"Medicine not made for us": Racism in Medicine
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I can't breathe:" a phrase every healthcare worker knows as a call to action. In the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Tayl...
The Myth of the Great Equalizer: Covid-19
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In March 2020, medical schools around the country suspended all in-person teaching and clinical rotations due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Glued to the n...
Distance: Covid-19
06 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fever, cough, shortness of breath: we know the devastating impact of Covid-19 on our patients’ health. More difficult to quantify, however, are the ...