Association of Out Surgeons & Allies (AOSA) – Episode 2: The Medical Student and Resident Perspective

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

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🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week, we discuss the experiences of residents and medical students in surgery who identify as LGBTQIA+. We discuss the question of disclosure during interviews, how to identify programs that are welcoming to diverse identities, and how AOSA has grown the community of trainees and faculty mentors and hopes to continue to support them in the future.

Hosts:

Jason Bingham, MD
Nina Clark, MD

Guests:

Andrew Schlussel, DO, Colorectal and General Surgeon, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center
Christina Georgeades, MD, R4 General Surgery at Medical College of Wisconsin cgeorgeades@mcw.edu, Twitter/X: @CGeorgeades
Cameron Smith, MS3 at Kansas City University Cameron.smith@kansascity.edu, Instagram: @cameron_smith_1996, Twitter/X: @cafe_aficionad0
Jillian Wothe, MD, R1 General Surgery at Brigham & Women’s Hospital jillian.wothe@gmail.com, Twitter/X: @JillianWothe

Learn more and get involved with AOSA:
https://www.outsurgeons.org
Twitter/X: @OutSurgeons

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome back to Behind the Knife. This is Nina Clark. I'm here with Jason
0:25.8	Bam and our collaborators from the association for out surgeons and allies or AOSF. Andrew Schlossel
0:31.5	from that organization is here today again hosting and he has some introductions to our team
0:36.2	for today.
0:37.2	Well good evening. Thanks again for having us back. I think this episode is going to be so important
0:42.3	because this is really the crux of this organization. This is what we've all wanted a long
0:47.8	time ago. So I'm just I'm really proud to have everybody here and all the effort they put
0:51.6	in. So we got three great guests. First we have Cameron Smith. He's a 30 year medical
0:56.4	student in Joblin, Missouri. We have Christina Jurgatus. She's a PGI4 from the medical college
1:03.5	of Wisconsin and Jillian Wolfie. She's a PGI1 at the Brigham in Boston. So really wonderful
1:10.0	to have you all and think you get for having us back on.
1:12.6	Great. Thank you. So we are super excited to have you guys and I am in particular because
1:16.8	I've been really interested in medical student and resident education really since I started
1:20.9	residency myself. And our first episode with AOSA that we recorded a few weeks ago really
1:26.2	focused on a lot of the history of AOSA and how it came to be. And so today we're actually
1:31.4	focusing a little bit more on its future in the form of you all the trainees and medical
1:36.1	students who are forming that kind of groundwork of this organization. So I'd love to hear
1:41.5	a little bit from each of you about how you got involved and why this organization was
1:46.0	really important to you to join as a trainee.
1:48.6	So I got involved with AOSA. I've actually just got on med Twitter and I saw that organization
1:56.1	pop up and I was trying to find more ways to be involved as a cis gay male in the medical
2:04.9	student community, especially in the LGBTQ press community. And I thought it was a great
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