Radio Rounds

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Radio Rounds is a weekly medical talk show that is freely accessible to anyone and everyone.Our stories promote the art and science of medicine with an emphasis on nurturing humanism and resilience in this most remarkable and sacred profession.The organization was created and founded by medical students at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine in Dayton Ohio in 2009. Dr. Avash Kalra created the show with fellow medical students Dr. John Corker, Dr. Shamie Das and Dr. Lakshman Swami who are all now practicing clinically across the country.

Episodios

  • Saving the Safety Net

    27/11/2011 Duración: 29min

    This episode aired on Sunday November 27, 2011. You can listen to this episode in its entirety on WYSO.org or download the free podcast on our iTunes page! In our unstable economy, job loss is many times accompanied by loss of health insurance. Many clinics step up to take on the task of helping these and other uninsured patients navigate the healthcare system during this time of uncertainty. Reach Out Dayton is one such clinic that has not only taken on this task, but also assumes the responsibility of providing a teaching atmosphere for medical students from Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine. Dr. Sherlock discusses many aspects of Reach Out Dayton, including funding, which has taken a significant cut recently due to healthcare changes at the federal level. In addition, she discusses the amount of volunteers that it takes to make Reach Out a possibility. Dr. Sherlock’s passion for the clinic and all the patients they serve is very much apparent in her comments with the Radio Rounds

  • Always A Lion in the House

    20/11/2011 Duración: 29min

    This episode aired on Sunday November 20, 2011. Pediatric cancer patients face many obstacles — many of which are not limited simply to the course of their disease. This episode of Radio Rounds provides a harsh insight into the lives of patients who must adapt to catastrophic diseases over which they have no control. Featured Guest: Dr. Robert Arceci, the Director of Pediatric Oncology at Johns Hopkins University, Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Blood and Cancer magazine, and the creator of A Lion in the House, an Emmy-Award winning documentary released in 2006 that provides the unique perspectives of pediatric patients with cancer who come from starkly varying socioeconomic backgrounds. Dr. Arceci shares his inspiration for the critically acclaimed documentary and the topics that he wanted to address through the creation of the film. He discusses the changes that have been made in healthcare in response to the documentary and the major challenges that still lie ahead for hospitals, physicians, policy-writ

  • Technically Speaking

    13/11/2011 Duración: 29min

    This episode aired on Sunday November 13, 2011. Featured Guest: Dr. William Hanson, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and a pioneer in the field of medical technology. Author of “The Edge of Medicine,” Dr. Hanson shares real stories about the exciting ways in which technology is changing — if not revolutionizing — the practice of medicine. Dr. Hanson offers his insight on the future of medicine — when our understanding of disease now may seem archaic. In addition, he discusses the struggle of the medical profession to use current technology to, for instance, transfer information about patients between hospitals and offices. Dr. Hanson also shares some interesting new technology that may give physicians the ability to diagnose disease simply by smell! His experiences with medical technology advancements allow him to share with the Radio Rounds crew some ethical concerns that may arise through these dramatic changes in medicine and the way physic

  • Foundation for House M.D.

    06/11/2011 Duración: 29min

    This episode aired on Sunday November 6, 2011. Medical dramas and sitcoms have gained momentum in the past decade, and this episode of Radio Rounds explores one of the more popular shows of the decade: House. Featured Guest: Dr. Harley Liker, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the UCLA Medical Center and Medical Technical Advisor for the television program House M.D. on Fox. Dr. Liker shares with hosts Teresa Lee and Yojan Patel how his friendship with David Shore, the creator of House, got him involved with the pilot episode and how his role on the program has evolved over the years. In addition he discusses where he finds inspiration while contributing to the show’s scripts and how the show’s creative license gives him a unique opportunity to address social politics of medicine and misconceptions associated with certain rare diseases. Dr. Liker addresses the interesting issue presented by dramas centered on professionals and their careers. They must “technically” please the professionals who

  • Zombie M.D.

    30/10/2011 Duración: 29min

    This episode aired on Sunday October 30, 2011. Zombies, vampires, superheroes and many other fantastical creatures from the cinema pose interesting subjects for science buffs and even physicians to explore. In this special Halloween episode, the Radio Rounds team… gets creative. Featured Guest: Dr. Steven Schlozman, the world’s foremost authority on Zombie neurobiology. Dr. Schlozman is a clinical psychologist, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and an expert on the inner workings of the living dead. Dr. Schlozman’s first novel, The Zombie Autopsies, hit shelves nationwide in March 2011. Dr. Schlozman shares with Radio Rounds how his interest in zombies began when he was very young and how his subsequent medical education stirred his interest in answering some of the physiological questions concerning the behavior and psychology of the living dead. The physical condition of the cinematic creatures resembles a myriad of diseases affecting the central nervous system, and Dr. Sch

  • American Medicine, Global Healing

    23/10/2011 Duración: 29min

    This episode aired on Sunday October 23, 2011. Featured Guest: This episode features Dr. Meg Sullivan, an American pediatrician serving as Timmy Global Health‘s Medical Director in Guatemala. Dr. Sullivan shares stories of her inspiring work practicing medicine in Central America, and in addition, she highlights a number of exciting ways in which medical students can get involved in her work. Also featured on this program is Matt MacGregor, Executive Director of Timmy Global Health. Timmy Global Health and its partners around the world continue to successfully combine empathy and compassion with follow-up care and better health outcomes for the developing parts of the world. John Corker interviews our guests about the roles the organization and its partners play in providing access to health care in these areas. Matt McGregor discusses the mission and goals of Timmy Global Health and some of the logistical issues that the organization aims to solve with medical teams and medical supplies. Dr. Sullivan

  • An Interview with Dr. Michelle Au on the balance between personal and professional life

    16/10/2011 Duración: 29min

    This episode aired on Sunday October 16, 2011. Balancing personal life in the medical field can be a challenging task. In this episode, hosts Lakshman Swamy and Casey McCluskey lead a discussion on this balance and the interesting approach that one physician has taken to bring personality and humanism back to the field of medicine. Featured Guest: Dr. Michelle Au, an anesthesiologist and acclaimed author. Since medical school, she has penned “The Underwear Drawer” — a blog about her life inside and outside of medicine, including her life balancing her career with her family. Dr. Au is the author of the book This Won’t Hurt a Bit (And Other White Lies) and also of a medical comic strip series entitled “Scutmonkey,” which details both the lighter and darker humor of the modern medical education process. Dr. Au talks about how her blog started and how it has progressed over the years from being a method of communicating with her family and friends about her progress as a medical student to being a medium in

  • Slightly Funnier than Placebo

    09/10/2011 Duración: 29min

    This episode aired on Sunday October 9, 2011. In one of the most entertaining episodes of Radio Rounds to date, hosts Lakshman Swamy and Yojan Patel speak with the one of a kind “ZDoggMD.” Featured Guest: ZDoggMD, an internist/hospitalist who practices in Silicon Valley, California. In addition, ZDoggMD’s hobby is medical satire — performed for entertainment and education and exploring a variety of healthcare issues. ZDoggMD combines his talents of music and satire with his love for education in many forms of entertainment — raps, skits, and other creative forms of media. In this episode, he shares with the Radio Rounds crew the origins of these interests, and he discusses his approach to keeping his material fresh and appropriate. By taking a light-hearted yet appropriate approach to many of the sensitive issues in medicine, ZDoggMD is revolutionizing public medical education. Tune in for a fascinating 30 minutes of insightful comedy… and a unique Radio Rounds theme song created by ZDoggMD himself. To

  • The Ways We Live and Die

    02/10/2011 Duración: 29min

    This episode aired on Sunday October 2, 2011. In this episode, Avash Kalra and Teresa Lee lead a discussion on palliative care and the intricacies of dealing with end-of-life events, from the perspective of both physicians and patients. Featured Guest: Dr. David Casarett, Associate Professor in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Last Acts: Discovering Possibility and Opportunity at the End of Life. Dr. Casarett shares with us many stories from his experiences as a physician specializing in palliative care, including the story of Sylvester, the patient who inspired him to write his book. As patients discover they are at the end of life, they have many different ways of responding — including reconciliation, aggression, celebration, revenge, denial and many others. Dr. Casarett stresses the importance of battling the common assumption that the end of life is hopeless. Avash and Teresa also discuss with host Casey McCluskey her own experiences with the possibility o

  • The AMA and Student Voices

    25/09/2011 Duración: 29min

    This episode aired on Sunday September 25, 2011. In this episode, John Corker and Teresa Lee discuss with our guests the roles that the American Medical Association (AMA), particularly the medical student section (MSS), plays in the development of health care policies on Capitol Hill. Featured Guests: Dr. Peter Carmel, recently inaugurated 166th president of the American Medical Association, Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at New Jersey Medical School and Director of the Neurological Institute of New Jersey. Also: Abby Daniel, the 2011-2012 Government Relations Advocacy Fellow for the AMA, and T.R. Eckler, Chief of the AMA Medical Student Section Governing Council. Dr. Carmel gives us insight into the role that medical students play in the AMA and the influence that they have in the direction of proposals on Capitol Hill. He also mentions the proposed budget cuts to Medicare and the effect that those cuts would have on the medical community, particularly for physicians in residencies fu

  • The Unfinished Agenda

    18/09/2011 Duración: 29min

    This episode aired on Sunday September 18, 2011. In this episode, hosts John Corker and Lakshman Swamy consider the many challenges facing primary care physicians today with regards to children’s vaccinations and the declining public perception of the utility of preventive medicine. As experienced U.S. physicians attempt to convince misinformed parents of the importance of preventive medicine, Latin America faces many of these same struggles. One in three children in Latin America have not received the vaccinations they so desperately need! Featured Guest: Dr. Jon Andrus, Deputy Director of the Pan-American Health Organization, a division of the World Health Organization. Dr. Andrus is credited for his work in eradicating Polio in the Americas and Southeast Asia. He received the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest award of the United States Public Health Service for this work. Dr. Andrus’ current work in PAHO focuses on “finishing the unfinished agenda.” This includes bringing immunizations and

  • The 9/11 Medical Response

    11/09/2011 Duración: 29min

    This episode aired on Sunday September 11, 2011. For our first episode of Season 6, Radio Rounds hosts discuss the events that took place on September 11, 2001 with two physicians whose perspectives offer unique insight into the details and aftermath of that fateful day. Featured Guests: Dr. Steven Sampson, Osteopathic Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Doctor and Clinical Instructor of Medicine at UCLA School of Medicine and Dr. Jacqueline Moline, Director of the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. Dr. Sampson recalls his experiences as a 4th-year Medical student during the tragedies of September 11 one decade ago. After hearing of the attacks, Dr. Sampson’s response was similar to so many others on that day: heroism uninhibited by fear and a sense of duty that called him to the doorstep of Ground Zero to offer whatever help he could. Dr. Moline’s project at Mt. Sinai Hospital aims at treating the ailments that occurred as a result of the

  • Have a Heart

    02/01/2011 Duración: 47min

    In this episode, we were joined by Dr. Franklin Handel (left), a cardiologist in Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Handel discussed the changes he has seen in the field of cardiology during his 26 years of practice, while also offering insight regarding the future of the specialty. Dr. Handel also discussed the importance of humanism in medicine and shared stories from his own experiences caring for patients. While live on the air, we learned that Dr. Handel was once the President of his medical school class, as a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania. This was especially fitting because of our second guest for this episode, TJ Hufford — the President of the first year class at the Boonshoft School of Medicine. TJ discussed medical student involvement in the community and shared experiences that highlight the importance of medical students “having a heart.”

  • Exploring Osteopathic Medicine

    12/09/2010 Duración: 36min

    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)

  • Climbing the Decision Tree

    05/09/2010 Duración: 28min

    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.

  • An interview with Dr. George Bonnano

    22/08/2010 Duración: 32min

    Dr. George Bonanno, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Chair of the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology at Columbia University's Teachers College, is the author of The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After A Loss. He discusses the sophisticated process of mourning and his own experience with grief following his father's death.

  • White Coats, Long Roads & Dreams

    15/08/2010 Duración: 27min

    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.

  • Rounding in Space

    08/08/2010 Duración: 29min

    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

  • Medical School Admissions

    31/01/2010 Duración: 01h26min

    In this episode, we were joined by a fantastic panel of admissions experts — Dr. Stephen Peterson (pictured on the left; Asst. Dean of Admissions, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine), Dr. R. Stephen Manuel(Associate Dean of Admissions, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine), Ms. Lorna Kenyon (Director of Admissions, The Ohio State University College of Medicine), and Joshua Evans (second year medical student at Wright State who serves as a full admissions committee member and interviewer).

  • Women in Medicine

    24/01/2010 Duración: 54min

    Thanks to the AMWA (American Medical Women’s Association) chapter at the Boonshoft School of Medicine, the Radio Rounds team hosted a Mother’s Day lunch event in the WWSU radio station! Dr. Amy Reed is a vascular surgeon at the University of Cincinnati — one of less than 200 female vascular surgeons in the United States. She spoke to us about her decision to become a surgeon, her experience during her training, and her ability to balance her family with a demanding professional career. We were also joined by Dr. Sheela Barhan, an OB/GYN in Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Barhan is also the Director of the Boonshoft School of Medicine’s “Women in Medicine” elective course, and she spoke to us about the benefits of that course. Our other guests on this episode included Joanna Hurrell (accompanied by her mother; second year student and President of AMWA at Wright State), Michelle Kline and Nicole Majoras (first year students who took the aforementioned “Women in Medicine” elective course this year), and Laura Previll (a sec

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