AAEM Resident and Student Association Podcast

Dr. Yusuke Kishimoto is joined by Drs. Jasmin Custodio and Parker Howard to discuss and share their advice, tips, and experiences so you can ace your residency interviews for the Match 2024 on the next AAEM/RSA Podcast.

Resident Labor Rights: Future Directions of Unionization by AAEM Resident and Student Association Podcast

Drs. Yusuke Kishimoto and Jasmin Custodio discuss everything you need to know on financial planning for ECFMG certifications, residency applications, match day and more for #Match2024 on the AAEM/RSA podcast.

Join us for a discussion regarding the history of residency unionization. These podcast episodes are meant to follow up on our AAEM/RSA Resident Labor Rights panel discussion which took place live in New Orleans at Scientific Assembly and will be posted later. Please keep your eyes out for that recoding to hear us discuss the basics of what a union is and its pros and cons. This three-part podcast series will build on those initial conversations. Here with us today is Dr. Michael Losak Dr. Losak is a practicing emergency physician and currently an assistant professor at the Stanford School of Medicine. While he was a resident at the University of California, San Francisco, he led the organizing committee that successfully won a new housestaff union there in 2017. This union, a chapter of the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR), was the largest new public sector union in California that year and also thought to be the largest new physician union in American history at the time of its founding. He was subsequently elected to the national board of CIR, served as a member of the negotiating committee for the resident contracts at both UCSF and San Francisco General, and helped a number of other California housestaff with their successful organizing campaigns. Since finishing residency, he has stayed involved with the healthcare labor space through writing, advising housestaff organizing committees, and engaging in local politics. Please feel free to reach out through info@aaemrsa.org with any questions regarding unionization efforts or for our guest speakers.

Combining information from previous episodes, Yusuke guides you through the residency application timeline. Learn how to approach each month in this process through his recommendations so you can be a well-prepared applicant for the Match.

Join us for a discussion regarding residency unionization and the logistics which go into unionizing a residency and the bargaining that ensues following unionization. These podcast episodes are meant to follow up on our AAEM/RSA Resident Labor Rights panel discussion which took place live in New Orleans at Scientific Assembly and will be posted later. Please keep your eyes out for that recoding to hear us discuss the basics of what a union is and its pros and cons. This three-part podcast series will build on those initial conversations. Here with us on the podcast today are Dr. Lena Carleton and Dr. Nikki Alberti Lena Carleton, MD is a third-year resident physician in Emergency Medicine & Internal Medicine at the University of Illinois Chicago. Lena was born and raised in Washington, DC, and seeing the inequities in her own city sparked a passion for social justice activism at a young age. It is this passion that ultimately led Lena to pursue a career in medicine. During her residency, Lena became one of the founding members of UIC’s resident physician union and has since been involved in bargaining and contract negotiation. She has spoken locally and nationally about her experiences as a union organizer, and her talk, “Organizing is the Best Medicine: The Past, Present, and Future of Resident Unions” won the “People’s Choice” Award at the 2022 EMRA 20 in 6 Resident Lecture Competition. Nikki Alberti, DO is a second-year resident physician in Emergency Medicine & Internal Medicine at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is from a small town in upstate New York, which is where she did undergrad. She then received her MPH from UVM and went to medical school in Philadelphia, which is where her spark for social justice, and thus unionization, was ignited. In the episode we discuss one of the largest resident unions and the union at these resident’s program – CIR or Committee of Interns and Residents. For more information about CIR, you can visit their website: https://www.cirseiu.org/who-we-are/ Please feel free to reach out through info@aaemrsa.org with any questions regarding unionization efforts or for our guest speakers.

Yusuke breaks down the four different types of SLOEs. He also shares different resources you can use to Honor your emergency medicine rotation and get the top 10% on your SLOE evaluations.

In the second episode of the series, Yusuke will be going over 6 things you could work on to prepare ahead for your residency applications when they open in June. Key topics include: Personal Statement, Letters of Recommendation, MSPE, Extracurricular Activities, Residency Research, and Professional Headshots.

RxЯ: Introductory Foundation to Residency by AAEM Resident and Student Association Podcast

EMpower: Street Medicine with Dr. Theresa Nguyen and Alana Moore by AAEM Resident and Student Association Podcast

The second episode of our Social EM podcast series, EMpower: Where Humanity Meets Medicine, centers around food security. Learn what this means, how it impacts health outcomes, and more with Dr. Victor Cisneros, Dr. Anantha Singarajah and Mary Unanyan.

In this episode, Lauren Lamparter, AAEM/RSA Medical Student Council President interviews Michael Gottlieb, MD RDMS FAAEM, Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Division, Program Director for the Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship at Rush University Medical Center, and AAEM Emergency Ultrasound Section Council Chair; Phillip Dixon, MD MPH CHCQM, Associate Professor for the Department of Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University and YPS Director for the AAEM Board of Directors; Andrew Phillips, MD MEd FAAEM, Clinical Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and AAEM Critical Care Medicine Section Council Chair; and Ghazi-Askar, MD FAAEM, Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at Stanford Medicine.

In this episode, Drs. Kaitlin Parks and Frosso Adamakos discuss the progression from residency to junior faculty with on shift teaching, mentoring, and career development in part 2 of their podcast.

In this episode, Drs. Kaitlin Parks and Frosso Adamakos discuss various lectures that Dr. Adamakos presented at AAEM22, including Congenital Cardiac Disease How to Approach Sick Neonate and Peds Trauma in part 1 of their podcast.

In this episode, join Drs. Kaitlin Parks and Danya Khoujah in a discussion on the most important diagnosis that you have likely been missing - delirium.

In this episode, join Drs. Greg Jasani, Kersti Bellardi, and Hetal Bhatt in a discussion about gun violence, how it affects EM physicians, and why it’s our lane.

In this episode, Dr. Kaitlyn Parks, a resident at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, as well as AAEM/RSA Board Member At-Large speaks with Dr. Afrah Ali, an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and co-chair of the AAEM Simulation Interest Group. Today Drs. Parks and Ali discuss a variety of topics including Dr. Ali’s talk on agitation.

In this Episode, Advocacy Committee Co-Chair, Kersti Bellardi, medical student at Western University of Health Sciences, and Maryam Hockley, MD, MPH, intern at Valley Children's hospital and member of the AAEM/RSA Advocacy Committee interview Andy Walker, MD, FAAEM, an accomplished emergency physician, about surprise billing and care affordability.

Presented by Nduka Vernon, a medical student at Emory University School of Medicine and member of the AAEM/RSA Advocacy Committee and Kimberly Herard, MD, resident at Emory University School of Medicine. Intro music by Akashic Records, Key to Success - Discover the Possibility from the album Corporate Presentation - Key to Success, powered by JAMENDO.

Presented by Patrick Wallace, DO, a resident at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and member of the AAEM/RSA Education Committee, and Jorge Antonio Fernandez, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center. Intro music by Akashic Records, Key to Success - Discover the Possibility from the album Corporate Presentation - Key to Success, powered by JAMENDO.