Mindful Future Physicians Association: Recent Episodes
Katie Miller, Shalina Chithriki, Varun Kathawate, Gabriella Trama, and Gillian Drexler
This podcast is dedicated to inspiring the next generation of healthcare workers to take their physical and mental health into their own hands. We will be interviewing different healthcare professionals to share their mental struggles, advice, and overall experience in the medical field!
We interviewed Dr. Karen Koffler, functional medicine doctor, who works at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Miami. Dr. Koffler started off on a pathway to become an ER doctor, but realized that the constant cycling of the same patients being admitted to the ER with the same reasons was destroying her sense of efficacy in the medical system. Dr. Koffler found herself taking on an opportunity to be in one of the very first cohorts learning functional medicine, where she found her calling. Dr. Koffler also discusses the hardships going through the process of becoming a functional medicine doctor as well as the benefits to her and her patients.
In this episode we talked with Clara Sun, first year medical student at CWRU Medical School. Clara shed light on the difficulty of being a medical student during the current pandemic, how she handles her mental health in medical school, gives some insight about how CWRU supports the mental health, and how to handle a break!
In today's society healthcare workers struggle with their mental health due to a strenuous schedule and sheer rigor of the being a part of the medical field.
In this episode, we interviewed three medical students, members of AMWA, who are currently attending the Miller School of Medicine. We discuss the unique experiences of being a woman in medicine and even delve into the importance of mental health.
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