The Gold Connection is a podcast created and produced by the Gold Humanism Honor Society, a program of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, launched in August 2020 in conjunction with the debut of the 2020-2021 GHHS National Initiative: Humanism and Healing: Structural Racism and its Impact on Medicine.
Below is a selection of episodes on topics related to diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism (DEIAR).
Gold Student Summer Fellowship: M.E.D.S. program for Florida youth
This conversation features the work of Etta Conteh, Yamilet Gonzalez, and Hannah Wilson, medical students at the University of Central College of Medicine, who developed M.E.D.S. (Medical Enrichment for Diverse Students), an innovative Orlando-based student-led mentoring program that addresses a growing need for diverse healthcare workers through the extension of pivotal educational opportunities for students with socioeconomic disadvantages, together with three other medical student team members, Muneeza Rashid, Anela Carrazana, and Ana Carrazana.
The M.E.D.S. program includes 1-in-1 mentoring sessions, therapy services, community service projects, and health disparities workshops. Over the long term, this project aims to improve the health of underserved patient populations in Central Florida through empowering and training future healthcare leaders from within these communities.
Gold Student Summer Fellowship: Exploring Traditional Remedies in Ecuador
This second conversation with Abbygale Willging, a medical student at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, features her service project, titled “Survey of Traditional Home Remedy Use in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department in Riobamba, Ecuador,” which explores the use of traditional remedies by patients in the Riobamba, Ecuador, community, who presented to the Emergency Department after experiencing a health-related emergency.
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eet the first U.S. medical school – and the first GHHS Chapter – with a Cherokee Nation Campus
This podcast episode offers a conversation with two leaders at a one-of-a-kind medical school: Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, the first medical school to be on tribally affiliated land.
Helping Women Physicians Thrive with Dr. Tammie Chang and Dr. Luisa Duran
This special episode, which aired in recognition of National Suicide Prevention Month, offered an intimate conversation about physician wellness and the higher risks faced by female doctors. They share their stories, the terrible data on burnout, and how their need for change in medical culture led to them to create Pink Coat, MD — a space and support to help other female physicians thrive, too.
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.
