Category: Season Four

This episode, which aired on September 19, 2010, is now available as a free download on our iTunes page!

In the third year of medical school, everything changes.

After two years spent learning traditionally (i.e. in classroom lectures), third year medical students — or “MS3s” — at last begin their clinical rotations, spending long days and nights in hospitals, applying the vast amount of knowledge they gained during the first two years… and translating that to hands-on clinical experience.

In this episode, a group of medical students and two physicians engage in a lively roundtable discussion about the clinical rotations milestone — a time in which third year medical students begin to translate their “textbook knowledge” into “clinical knowledge,” spending every day in the hospital or doctor’s office and learning what it means to be part of a patient care team. In this episode, you’ll hear the perspectives of:

• Dr. Brenda Roman: Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Medical Student Education, and Director of the Psychiatry clerkship at the Wright State Univ. Boonshoft School of Medicine

• Dr. Gregory Toussaint: Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Director of Inpatient General Pediatrics, and Director of the Pediatrics clerkship rotation at the Wright State Univ. Boonshoft School of Medicine

• Third-year medical students Meera Menon, Arjun Vibhakar, and Shaden Khalaf… alongside Radio Rounds host (and fellow third-year student) Avash Kalra.

Again, as always, the free-to-download podcast of this episode (and all past episodes) can be found on our iTunes page!

This episode, which aired on September 12, 2010, is now available as a free download on our iTunes page!

What’s the difference between a physician holding the allopathic M.D. degree versus the osteopathic D.O. degree? Nowadays, the line between the two is much more indistinct than it once was, but the history and philosophy of the two approaches to medicine differ somewhat. In this episode, we explore the history, meaning, and importance of osteopathic medicine.

Featured in this episode are Dr. Stephen Shannon (President of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine) and Dr. Walter Hartwig (Department Chair of Anatomy at Touro University-San Francisco and author of Med School Rx: Getting In, Getting Through, and Getting On with Doctoring)

Again, as always, the free-to-download podcast of this episode (and all past episodes) can be found on our iTunes page!

This episode, which aired on September 5, 2010, is now available as a free download on our iTunes page!

Featured in this episode is Thomas Goetz (left), author of The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine and executive editor of Wired Magazine. Goetz examines how physicians can encourage patients to take ownership of their own health and understand the very real and personal consequences of their lifestyle choices.

In our conversation, Goetz discusses how a “decision tree” can allow patients to be more engaged in their own health care process. The importance of this, he suggests, is immeasurable for the future of the medical profession.

As always, the free-to-download podcast of this episode (and all past episodes) can be found on our iTunes page!

This episode, which aired on August 22, 2010, is now available as a free download on our iTunes page!

Featured in this episode is Dr. George Bonanno (left), Professor of Clinical Psychology and Chair of the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology at Columbia University’s Teachers College. He is the author of The Other Side of Sadness: What The New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After a Loss, and his work has been featured on CNN and 20/20, as well as in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.

Dr. Bonnano discusses the sophisticated process of mourning and concepts such as “psychological resilience” and inborn emotions. He also describes his own process of grieving following his father’s death, and how his reflections on that process shaped the writing of his book, The Other Side of Sadness.

In this episode, hosts Avash Kalra and Lakshman Swamy also discuss their recent experience with learning to deliver bad news to a patient and the complex role that grief plays in the physician/patient relationship.

As always, the free-to-download podcast of this episode (and all past episodes) can be found on our iTunes page!

This episode, which aired on August 15, 2010, is now available as a free download on our iTunes page!

Through the voices of newly-minted medical students and their proud families, this episode of Radio Rounds explores the significance of the white coat — the universally recognized symbol of the medical profession. The ‘Rounds’ crew discusses the meaning of the white coat and its representation of the purity of healing, the art of medicine, and the dawn of a new era of physicians.

Joining hosts Avash Kalra and John Corker were first year medical students Teresa Lee and Doug Bias, who discussed the memorable feeling of recently being cloaked with the white coat for the first time, and second year medical student Casey McCluskey, who offered her perspective on switching from wearing a white coat to donning a patient gown during her recent bout with breast cancer.

In addition, this episode features live field reports — including interviews with students and proud parents — recorded at the Boonshoft School of Medicine Class of 2014 White Coat Ceremony.

As always, the free-to-download podcast of this episode (and all past episodes) can be found on our iTunes page!

The podcast of our Season 4 premiere is now available as a free download on our iTunes page!

On Sunday August 8, Season 4 of Radio Rounds kicked off with, indeed, an “out of this world” episode, featuring special guest Dr. Michael Barratt, a mission specialist with the NASA Space Shuttle Program.

We enjoyed speaking with Dr. Barratt, who took us behind-the-scenes of a space shuttle mission, describing — among other things — the medical emergencies that arise in space. Dr. Barratt began working for NASA in 1991. Since then, he has spent time working as a NASA Flight Surgeon, and in 2009, he completed 199 days in space on board the Russian Soyuz Rocket and the International Space Station. He is currently one of the five crew members assigned to the STS-133 mission, the next planned mission of the Space Shuttle Program, scheduled for launch on the Discovery shuttle to the International Space Station on November 1, 2010.

This episode features Avash Kalra, John Corker, Shamie Das, and Lakshman Swamy as hosts, with special guest appearances by Casey McCluskey and Teresa Lee. All six are medical students at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio. They discussed their varied experiences over the summer — from taking the USMLE Step 1 Exam to beginning classes in a Masters in Public Health program.

We encourage you to listen to the free-to-download podcast of the show on our iTunes page!