Doctors in Business

Have you ever wondered what a musical about medical school would be like? In today's episode, we give you a peek into Medicine the Musical and a behind the scenes discussion with Dr. Michael Ehrenreich, the creative extraordinaire who wrote and directed this musical. In addition to his work as a dermatologist, he has invented board games, designed new bikes, and written numerous novels and plays....

Today, we sit down to talk to Dr. Benoit Dubé, the Chief Wellness Officer of the University of Pennsylvania. Find out what it means to be a chief wellness officer of, well.. anything, and how much of Dr. Dubé's path to psychiatry had to do with comical happenstance. Listen as the conversation shifts from wellness on college campuses to the place for the humanities and humanity in medicine. Thanks...

What does race have to do with the way we treat opioid addiction in the U.S.? What can we do to understand this issue and address it creatively? Listen as we tackle these complex issues this week and talk about the value of incorporating different disciplines in medicine with psychiatrist, assistant professor, and anthropologist, Dr. Helena Hansen. Thanks to Vidya Viswanathan for conducting this i...

This week we talk to Dr. Paul Offit, co-creator of the rotavirus vaccine. His training in pediatrics and infectious diseases, as well as his childhood experience in a polio ward, led him to become a champion for the children. In addition to his prolific writing (he's the author of 9 books), he's produced a documentary called Hilleman: A Perilous Quest to Save the World's Children. In this episode,...

This week we talk to Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, who is a physician, philanthropist, activist, and filmmaker based in the Bay Area. She is the founder of the End Well foundation, a non-profit focusing in issues of end-of-life care and palliative care. Listen as we grapple with these complex issues and talk about their implications for education, filmmaking, and modern medicine. We conclude with a di...

How do you create a medical podcast? In this meta episode of Doctors Who Create, we speak with the team at CORE IM about how their podcast came to be. Dr. Shreya Trivedi, Dr. Marty Fried, Dr. Steve Liu, and Dr. John Hwang speak candidly about the process of producing an episode from start to finish. Listen to CORE IM here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/core-im-internal-medicine-medical-educa...

"What Are You Doing Creatively These Days?" That is the very question that Dr. Niamh Kelly, associate professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia, asks in her article published in the journal Academic Medicine. In this episode, Tochi Awachie interviews Dr. Kelly, about her formative experiences in science, her inspiration from Sir Ken Robi...

What if you could use an online game to teach residents how to properly deal with medical emergencies, by simulating the real life-or-death decisions they must make in a fast-paced environment? Darlina Liu talks to Dr. Lisa Shieh, professor of medicine at Stanford and creator of the game Septris, which teaches hospital-based medical, surgical, intensive care and emergency department physicians and...

How do you design a space for medical students and trainees to work on creative projects? Dr. Bon Ku, emergency medicine physician and director of JeffDESIGN (a program that teaches medical students at Jefferson in Philadelphia to apply design thinking to solve problems in healthcare) talks to our hosts Darlina Liu and Yinka Orafidiya about creating a space for design at a medical institution. Wha...

Why do we need creativity in medicine? Hosts and current third-year medical students Katie Magoon, Chu Onyebeke and Vidya Viswanathan introduce the point of this podcast, and discuss why they believe creativity in medicine is important. Thanks to Benjamin Silva for producing and editing this episode, and the band Trisomy Rescue for providing our intro music. And to Darlina Liu for our podcast logo...