The Gold Connection is a podcast created and produced by members of the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Gold Connection: A GHHS Podcast launched in August 2020 in conjunction with the debut of the 2020 GHHS National Initiative: Humanism and Healing: Structural Racism and its Impact on Medicine. Learn more about the first episode below. Later episodes will be out in several months and engage GHHS chapters and members in their work around the 2020 National Initiative.
Episode 1: Introducing the 2020 GHHS National Initiative -> Humanism and Healing: Structural Racism and its Impact on Medicine
The first episode opens the conversation about the 2020 GHHS National Initiative, Humanism and Healing: Structural Racism and its Impact on Medicine, and features a variety of perspectives from a GHHS chapter advisor, two medical students and GHHS members, and a Gold Foundation leader. All are members of the GHHS Advisory Council.
Listen above, or listen on Spotify or through Anchor.
Hellen Ransom, DHCE | Producer & Editor
Hellen Ransom, DHCE, HEC-C (Producer and Editor of Episode #1) is an Assistant Professor and Clinical Ethicist at The Brody School of Medicine (BSOM) at East Carolina University, where she’s the Faculty Advisor for BSOM’s Chapter of Gold Humanism Honor Society.
Enioluwafe OjoEnioluwafe “Eni” is an MD/MPH candidate (2021) at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She is passionate about addressing mental healthcare disparities, the intersection of faith and mental illness, and caring for incarcerated populations. She loves to pickle foods and make beer with her husband.
Candice PasserellaCandice Passerella is a fourth-year medical student at Howard University, a Historically Black College that graduates the most Black physicians in the nation. She is a veteran, wife, mother, and she is applying for residency in psychiatry. She has also visited 39 states and 22 different countries to date.
Louisa TvitoLouisa Tvito is the Director of Program Initiatives and the Gold Humanism Honor Society at The Arnold P. Gold Foundation. Louisa is a social worker by trade and spent the early part of her career working with dementia patients and their families. Over her close to four years at The Arnold Gold Foundation she has developed a tremendous passion for working with medical students, residents, and physicians in training to promote collaborative, compassionate, and scientifically excellent care.
Show Notes
Books:
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Horowitz Cain, 2012. Listen to her TED Talk.
Articles & Resources:
- “The Struggle and Triumph of America’s First Black Doctors” in The Atlantic
- Bryan Stevenson: It’s time to change the narrative around race and poverty — A Q&A with AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) and the civil rights lawyer and author of Just Mercy, who spoke at Learn Serve Lead 2019: The AAMC Annual Meeting
- “The Power of Proximity” talk by Bryan Stevenson
- Project Implicit — Implicit Association Tests on a variety of topics
- TEDEd cartoon on Plato and the Allegory of the Cave
- National Institutes of Health: Opening Doors: The History of Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons
- Latino Medical Student Association
- Student National Medical Association
- “How med schools, residency programs can diversify doctor workforce” — article from the American Medical Association
- “Doctors Should Learn to Fight Injustice, Not Just Pandemics“ — a Medscape Commentary
- Breaking the Bias — a podcast from Consciously Unbiased
Social Media:
- Woke Doctors — Instagram account
- Twitter thread started by Dr. Mahad Minhas to encourage physicians to offer to mentor and advise fourth-year underrepresented minority medical students, by specialty