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Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast

#181 July Stories 3.0

Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast

Core IM Team

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

What happens when your first day as an intern spirals into your worst fears?

In this episode, we share raw and real stories from July — from rapid responses to unexpected kindness — and reflect on the emotional weight of starting out in medicine.

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🔹 Transcript and Show Notes

Prior July Stories:

July Stories 2.0 (2023)

July Stories (2019)

Timestamps:

(00:32) | Dr. Ali Trainor's First Day as an Intern

(03:00) | The Patient's Critical Condition and Emotional Response 

(07:12) | Dr. George Tran's First Night Shift 

(10:38) | Dr. Ali Trainor's Second Rotation Experience 

(14:01) | The Importance of Co-Intern


Tags: CoreIM, Internal Medicine, Primary Care, Medical Education, IMCore, Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Medical Student, Narrative Medicine, Humanities



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Transcript

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0:00.0

I am so excited to have N.J.M.'s Editorial Fellowship program as a sponsor for this podcast.

0:06.2

Hear from Dr. Harleen Marwa and N.E.J.M. Editorial Fellow on her experiences.

0:11.4

I'm thinking about what brought me to the fellowship. And really, it was, I really wanted to, like, strengthen that muscle of being able to communicate science well.

0:20.1

And so if that is a skill that

0:22.3

folks are looking to strengthen, if folks want to get really strong at reading the scientific

0:26.4

literature, interpreting it for themselves, and then being able to communicate that effectively

0:30.5

with their colleagues or their patients, then absolutely this would be experience for you.

0:35.4

I think if you're someone who also maybe like me was missing

0:38.5

using the creative side of my brain during residency when we're so like grounded in illness

0:43.2

scripts and clinical algorithm, then it's also like a nice breath of pressure after you're

0:47.8

training or after a bit in clinical medicine to come up and think creatively about science and how we communicate it.

0:55.4

And this is a one year full-time paid editorial fellowship.

0:59.6

Check out the show notes from the link and learn more about the program and the application.

1:03.3

It's that time of year again, dun, done, done, July.

1:06.9

And at Coriam, we like to add some levity and realness with some heartfelt stories of all the

1:11.5

mixed emotions and experiences this month can bring. I'm Dr. Shrey Trevedi. And I'm Dr. Marissa LaCastro, and to kick

1:18.9

off our stories, we would like to introduce Dr. Allie Traynor, a pulmonary and critical care

1:23.9

doc from Mount Auburn Hospital. You may know her voice from our Green Matter series.

1:28.8

Yes. And just for context, Allie is a rock star. The first time I heard of her, someone actually

1:34.8

described her as perfect in every way. So that context makes this story even more of a shocker.

1:47.0

It actually happened on the first clinical day of my intern.

1:50.2

I'm rounding or doing my pre-rounds on my patients.

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