Hey folks, just a quick reminder that this episode is now meant to be used for medical advice,

just good old-fashioned education. All patient information has been modified to protect their

identity and the views expressed in our podcast do not necessarily reflect the opinion of our

employers. Welcome back on the problem Solvers to another episode of WDX,

Women in Diagnosis series, and I'm your host, Sharmin Shakajan.

Today, we are going to delve into Imposter Syndrome or Imposter Phenomeno.

The feeling of doubting yourself, attributing your achievements to external factors like luck,

and feeling like a fraud. This is often seen in high-achieving individuals, mostly women and other

underrepresented groups, that ultimately can have detrimental effects on well-being, job, career,

performance, and satisfaction. The most common narrative links into personality traits like perfectionism

and focuses on individual fixes. Is that all there is to it? Fix the individual and we are all good to go?

What is the problem with that definition? We're going to explore that and much, much more today.

And I'm very lucky and super excited to be joined by a very

special guest, Dr. Caitlin One. Dr. Caitlin One was born in Vietnam and grew up in Southern

California. After graduating from UCLA, she completed both medical school and internal medicine

residency at UCSF. She's currently a second year cardiology fellow, woo-hoo, at Stanford, and has interest

in cardiovascular imaging, health disparities, and digital health.

As she enjoys hiking, drinking copious amounts of herbal tea, while-time-to-plums, and starting

fires that Charmin has to put out literally. That is pretty

accurate. That's true. Definitely true. So as you may be able to tell, Kaylin and I go way back.

Actually, I remember the first time I met Kaylin was our second look weekend at UCSF when we first got into med school.

I remember showing up and, you know, having all the feels being super nervous, like still thinking how the hell did I got into UCSF?

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