EBB 89 - The Journey to Medical School with Reid Johnson

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Pregnancy, Health & Fitness, Childbirth, Parenting, Birth, Medicine, Kids & Family, Doula, Obstetrician, Midwife

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I am joined by Reid Johnson, a former student of mine! Reid graduated from university this past May with honors, majoring in biology. During his course of study he took my seminar on childbirth, called Babies Are Not Pizzas. I was honored to be asked to write his reference letter for medical school, and was so excited to hear that he was accepted. He starts his program this fall. I invited him to the EBB podcast to talk about what it's like to be a med student.

Reid shares his undergraduate and med school application journey, as well as his expectations for the future. We also get real on what life is like for doctors, and strategies to avoid professional burnout.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Reed Johnson about his
0:04.8	experience taking a college class with me and his journey into starting medical
0:08.8	school.
0:11.8	Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with
0:18.0	my PhD and the founder of Evidence Space Birth. Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based
0:24.8	information into the hands of families and professionals around the world.
0:29.5	As a reminder this information is not medical advice. See EB Birth.com
0:34.4	slash disclaimer for more details.
0:37.0	Hi everyone today I'm super excited to welcome Reed Johnson to the
0:42.3	Evidence-based birth
0:43.2	podcast. Reed just graduated from university this May,
0:46.8	graduating with honors and his major was in biology.
0:50.6	Reed is originally from Georgetown, Kentucky, and when he was a member of the Honors College at his university, he took an honors elective seminar with me all about childbirth, and that was in the fall of 2017. Reed and I kept in touch since that time and I was able
1:04.9	to be involved in helping him get some obstetric shadowing opportunities and I
1:08.8	even got to write his reference letter for medical school which I was really
1:12.0	honored when he asked me to do that.
1:14.0	I was super excited to hear that Reed was just accepted into medical school,
1:18.0	and he starts his program this fall,
1:20.0	and I asked if he would be willing to come on the podcast to share what he's learned on his journey to medical school and he agreed.
1:26.0	So welcome Reed to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast.
1:29.0	Hello, hello.
1:30.0	So can you tell us a little bit about why you chose pre-medicine for your path?
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