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Ep 021 - Hospice and Palliative Medicine with Dr. Elizabeth Higgins

Ep 021 - Hospice and Palliative Medicine with Dr. Elizabeth Higgins

FromThe Undifferentiated Medical Student


Ep 021 - Hospice and Palliative Medicine with Dr. Elizabeth Higgins

FromThe Undifferentiated Medical Student

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Length:
109 minutes
Released:
Feb 10, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Go to audibletrial.com/TUMS for a free 30-day trial membership and free audiobook! Help Ian interview all 120 specialties listed on the CIM website! Show notes! Dr. Elizabeth Higgins Dr. Higgins is a Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellow at Johns Hopkins, as well as an Associate Professor of both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Albany Medical College. Dr. Higgins completed her undergraduate degree at Siena College in 1985; her medical degree at SUNY Health Science Center – Syracuse in 1989; and then completed a combined Med/Peds residency at Albany Medical College in 1993, after which she practiced as an attending physician for 23 years before deciding to enroll in a Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship, which she will complete in June of 2017. Before applying for her fellowship, Dr. Higgins has held several titles, including that of Med/Peds Residency Program Director at Albany Medical College (a position she held for 10 years until 2007), as well as Associate Dean of Student Affairs, a position she at the Medical College until starting her fellowship. For her work in medical education, she is a 3 time recipient of the Golden Apple Award (most recently in 2009) bestowed by the American Medical Student Association to highlight a professor deserving of notoriety due to their improvements or advancements in medical education. In line with her commitment to medical education, Dr. Higgins is also on the Advisory Committee of the AAMC’s Careers in Medicine program, whose website is the basis for most of the interviews featured on the Undifferentiated Medical Student podcast. Please enjoy with Dr. Elizabeth Higgins!
Released:
Feb 10, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (76)

The TUMS podcast is about helping medical students to choose a medical specialty and plan a career in medicine. The list of career options available to medical students is long, but the time to explore them all is short. Moreover, mentorship in medical school is lacking, and many medical students tackle the task of career planning alone, most struggling and almost all clutching to the hope that 3rd year clinical rotations will definitively resolve their remaining uncertainties about how they want to specialize. However, having been distracted by the relentless pace of their pre-clinical curricula and the specter of Step 1, 3rd year medical students are eventually confronted with the reality that there are simply too many specialties to explore in one year and that they may not even get to finish their clinical rotations before important decisions about their careers need to be made (e.g., the planning of acting internships) if they are to be competitive applicants. Thus, mentorless and clinically unexposed, many medical students are forced to make wholly uninformed decisions about their futures. By interviewing at least one physician from each of the 120+ specialties listed on the AAMC's Careers in Medicine website 1) about their specialty, 2) how they decided this specialty was right for them, and 3) for advice about long-term career planning irrespective of the specialty they went into, this podcast aims to enumerate the details of every specialty and provide virtual mentorship on how best to go about moving past being an undifferentiated medical student.