8. Medicine: a path of empowerment and advocacy with Grace Zhang
10/14/21 • 71 min
Each week, we will be bringing you incredible tips, strategies and interviews with phenomenal medical students and residents. You can listen online (below), download it to listen later, on your smartphone: all for free.
In this week’s episode, we present our amazing colleague Grace Zhang. Grace’s entire journey is littered with illustrations of advocacy. She identifies key moments in her life where a particular encounter or sets of them, I should say, enjoined her to be a factor in the solutions to problems afflicting her community. Her leadership skills are apparent. While in High school, Grace began a free street store in Indiana for homeless people to “shop with dignity,” she asserted. Furthermore, she became a bridge for many people to the healthcare system as a mandarin interpreter at a clinic frequented by Asian immigrants in the Cleveland area. For this and more, tune in and join this episode!
In This Week’s Podcast, We’ll Explore
- Tips on becoming an astute writer
- Issues pertaining to tackling her identity
- How to Start an organization in high school
- Becoming a successful pre med albeit beginning college with uncertainty to pursue medicine
- Thoughts on providing culturally competent medical care
- How to get involved in healthcare as a translator
- How to approach the application cycle
Books Mentioned in the Podcast
Links from the Show
Each week, we will be bringing you incredible tips, strategies and interviews with phenomenal medical students and residents. You can listen online (below), download it to listen later, on your smartphone: all for free.
In this week’s episode, we present our amazing colleague Grace Zhang. Grace’s entire journey is littered with illustrations of advocacy. She identifies key moments in her life where a particular encounter or sets of them, I should say, enjoined her to be a factor in the solutions to problems afflicting her community. Her leadership skills are apparent. While in High school, Grace began a free street store in Indiana for homeless people to “shop with dignity,” she asserted. Furthermore, she became a bridge for many people to the healthcare system as a mandarin interpreter at a clinic frequented by Asian immigrants in the Cleveland area. For this and more, tune in and join this episode!
In This Week’s Podcast, We’ll Explore
- Tips on becoming an astute writer
- Issues pertaining to tackling her identity
- How to Start an organization in high school
- Becoming a successful pre med albeit beginning college with uncertainty to pursue medicine
- Thoughts on providing culturally competent medical care
- How to get involved in healthcare as a translator
- How to approach the application cycle
Books Mentioned in the Podcast
Links from the Show
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7. How to develop the virtues of a physician through your experiences with Kevin Piczer
Each week, we will be bringing you incredible tips, strategies and interviews with phenomenal medical students and residents. You can listen online (below), download it to listen later, on your smartphone: all for free.
In this week’s episode, we present our amazing colleague, Kevin Piczer. His path to medicine seemed very conventional, but after our discussion, probing into the details of his experiences, it appears he’s indeed not your average premed. Kevin provides earnest, intimate accounts of his time working at the suicide prevention hotline in Columbus, and many more. If you want to develop productive insights into the skills that lends one to work suicide prevention, become a co-founder of a non-profit, or learn the intricacies of Kevin’s journey to medical school, stay tuned and enjoy!
In This Week’s Podcast, We’ll Explore
- How to go beyond checking boxes for your pre-med experiences
- Experience as biochemistry major
- How to approach gaining research experiences
- Reflections and accounts of the suicide prevention hotline
- Confounding a nonprofit
- Kevin’s personal philosophy on how to find or create meaningful experiences for oneself
- Hobbies, or, aptly put, passion for making drinks as a bonus!
Books Mentioned in the Podcast
- Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
- Is It Me or My Meds?: Living with Antidepressants
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Links from the Show
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9. Mindfulness: a balanced journey through pre medicine with Isaiah Giordullo
Each week, we will be bringing you incredible tips, strategies and interviews with phenomenal medical students and residents. You can listen online (below), download it to listen later, on your smartphone: all for free.
In this week’s episode, we present our amazing colleague Isaiah Giordullo. Isaiah opens up and talks freely about his mental health. He advocates for the proliferation of welcoming, safe spaces for people to have conversations on how to be more cognizant of the various issues pertaining to the mind. Isaiah has a strong position of work-life balance or, simply put, he speaks about how one ought to find a way of integrating your passions, hobbies, and all things of sorts that make one happy into your life. He also kindly provides us with some of the personal choices he made in undergrad to get into Medical school, for this and more tune in. For this and more, tune in and join this episode!
In This Week’s Podcast, We’ll Explore
- Who applies to BS/MD or BS/DO program
- On the fuel and motivations to success in undergrad
- Struggling and overcoming mild depression
- What makes one pursue psychiatry
- Advocating for mental health
- All things work-life balance and integration
- Being a successful premed
- Do what makes you happy don't checkboxes
Books Mentioned in the Podcast
Links from the Show
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