Medical Student Mentorship – Leveraging mentorship into scholarship

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Education, Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We’re all told to find mentors in medical training, but how does this actually work when you’re a new medical student interested in surgery? And how do you leverage those relationships into getting research experience and lines on your CV?

Hosts:
Nina Clark, MD
Jessica Millar, MD
Jon Williams, MD

Guests:
Michael Englesbe, MD, University of Michigan
Erika Bisgaard, MD, University of Washington

Some tips from the episode:
Get involved

Even if you’re not destined for an academic career, getting involved in research early on can help you to participate with the scientific literature, understand data, and incorporate new research into your practice.
Realistically, research is an important component of your ERAS application and your CV. It’s also a great opportunity to learn new skills and develop strong relationships with mentors.

Remember why you’re in medical school

You came to medical school to become a doctor first – don’t forget that or let research take away from it. Your mentors have been through it and understand that things get busy.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Behind the surgery podcast, relevant and engaging content designed to help you dominate the day. Ladies and gentlemen, I am thrilled to introduce the third edition of the Behind the
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0:56.2	Get ready to elevate your knowledge and achieve top absight scores with the all new behind
1:00.8	the knife absight podcast companion, an indispensable partner on your path to surgical
1:05.8	excellence. Good luck on the upcoming Appsight exam and dominate the day.
1:10.3	Welcome back to Behind the Night. My name is Jessica Malar, General Surgery Res at the University of Michigan, and I'm joined today by Nina Clark and John Williams, another one of our wonderful BTK education fellows. Additionally, we're joined by Dr. Mike Anglesby,
1:25.0	who's a professor of surgery at the University of Michigan,
1:28.0	and Dr. Erica Bizgard, an assistant professor in the Division of Trauma and Burn
1:31.5	Surgery at the University of Washington.
1:34.0	Now you may have heard our previous episode with these two wonderful guests talking about
1:37.8	mentorship specifically geared towards medical students, but in this episode today we're
1:41.9	going to talk about what research should look like, especially again from a medical student's perspective.
1:46.0	So thank you so much once again, Dr Anglesby and Dr. Bithbard for being here.
1:50.0	And I'm going to go ahead and I'm just going to get this episode started with asking the question of why should medical students do research?
1:57.0	I know recently we've been reading through a ton of residency applications and research is very prominent at all of these applications so why should students be involved in research during their time of medical school?
2:09.0	So I think there's a lot of reasons to get involved as a medical student.
2:13.1	I think, firstly, to learn more about which
2:15.9	you're going into and what's available in that field.
2:18.2	So there's so many areas of research that are ongoing.
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