Ep 068 - Academic Hospitalist Medicine with Dr. Emily Silverman
The Undifferentiated Medical Student
Release Date: 06/29/2018
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Ep 068 - Academic Hospitalist Medicine with Dr. Emily Silverman
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See below for time stamps. This episode is sponsored by ! Use . Then come back and use their annual premium subscription! Check out the for a complete list of book recommendations made by guests on this show (as well as other goodies). If you would like to support the show, use the to make all your normal Amazon purchases! You get all your things in usual 2 days, and TUMS gets a little sumin' sumin' at no extra cost to you. Show notes for this episode can be found . Dr. Emily Silverman Dr. Silverman is an academic hospitalist at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General...
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The 4th Year Episode #2
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Ep 066 - Combined Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics with Dr. Aaron Leetch
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Ever thought about going to an ? AMSA has teamed up with TUMS to offer a discount code (code: TUMS) that gets you $50 off convention registration, as well as $25 off AMSA membership! I specifically requested that the code also apply for pre-med students as well as current med students, so even if you're still on the war path, the code'll still work! The convention is March 8-11 in Washington, DC, and the Keynote Speaker is , Director of the National Institutes of Health, which promises to be awesome! So,...
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Show notes for this episode can be found here.
Dr. Emily Silverman
Dr. Silverman is an academic hospitalist at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
Dr. Silverman completed her undergraduate degree at Brown University in 2009 where she majored in History of Art and Architecture, briefly flirting with a career in the art world before heading down the pre-med path. She then completed her medical degree at Johns Hopkins University in 2014, followed by her residency in internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2017.
In addition to practicing hospitalist medicine, Dr. Silverman is the host and creator of The Nocturists, a live medical storytelling event and podcast for physicians and other healthcare providers. You can think of it as medicine’s version of the Moth. She is also the author of a series of prose poems about her experiences as a medical resident, many of which are published in the The Examined Life Journal of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Her writing is animated by a deep-seated curiosity about science, human nature, and what it means to live and die well.
In addition to her podcast’s website at thenocturnists.com, Dr. Silverman can be found at her personal website at emilysilverman.com, as well as on twitter as @ESilvermanMD
Please enjoy with Dr. Emily Silverman!
Time Stamps
- Intro to Dr. Silverman + intro to storytelling [3:36]
- Part 1: “Tell us about your specialty” [22:25]
- Routines, patients and outcomes [30:50]
- Biggest challenges / prediction for the next 10-20 years [58:18]
- Most exciting / most mundane [1:04:04]
- One thing you wish you had known [1:14:29]
- One thing to consider in earnest [1:16:37]
- Specific questions about academic hospital medicine [1:18:33]
- Resources [1:22:29]
- Part 2: “Tell us about how you decided your specialty was right for you“ [1:24:04]
- Part 3: “Give us advice for long-term career planning irrespective of your choice of specialty” [1:31:58]
- Book recommendations [1:39:44]