The Question All Future Applicants should Ask: “What Will Help Me Grow?”

Growth requires embracing unfamiliar and even scary situations. TL;DR * Listener Riley wants some suggestions on experiences that will help him grow while he pursues his path to medicine. * We discuss some comments from YouTube on female urologists and male patients.* That leads to a discussion on why hospitals default to environments for adult patients which are downright hostile. This week we start with a listener question. Riley’s about to apply to medical school after a winding path from high school dropout to welder to biochemist. He’s wondering if we can give him advice on activities that will help him to grow. Such a great way to put that question, and M4 Emma Barr, M3 Maddie Wahlen, M4 Abby Fyfe, and new co-host Jacob Hansen are on hand to offer some ideas. Also, we discuss some comments we got on a previous episode’s YouTube video featuring urologist and men’s health specialist Amy Pearlman on the fear and shame some men feel when they think about seeing a female urologist. For instance: why do doctors make their patients wait for them surrounded by gross anatomy models and posters??? We Want to Hear From You How’d we do on this week’s show? Did we miss anything in our conversation? Did we anger you? Did we make you smile? Call us at 347-SHORTCT anytime  or email [email protected].