The Trainees Who Don’t Fit the Med Ed Mission

The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School · Feb 24, 2022 · 45m

Should medical education make a larger space for trainees who don’t want to see patients? TL;DR * Medical schools’ mission is to create doctors that treat patients. In that context, the options provided for trainees who don’t see that as their own mission may be limited. * However, those options do exist–should schools acknowledge them? Should schools even promote those options to their students? * Listener Nicole asks what prerequisites she can take at a community college, if any. Even during medical school, Alison Yarp, MD, felt as though her personal career goals didn’t reflect those of…