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Is Your Affective Presence Killing Your Dream?

Affective presence is the lasting and stable impressions your interaction partners get from you. Your scores and grades only get you in the door. It's your personality that makes you a medical student, and later, a doctor.  So make sure you're giving off the right vibes! Listener Kalmen reminds us of a paths for some students who don't match.

Seizing The Moment: How COVID Could Change Healthcare, Ft. Shantanu Nundy, Md

graphic showing Shantanu Nundy against a backddrop of a hospital emergency room, with text COULD COVID CHANGE MEDICINE?COVID stressed healthcare but showed us a better future. TL;DR COVID revealed what’s broken in healthcare, and also offers a glimpse of how it can be fixed Distributed, decentralized and digital isn’t about technology, but about putting patients at the center of healthcare.

Did Match Day Implode?

How did COVID affect the 2021 Match? This week’s sponsor, Panacea Financial (Member FDIC) is giving away $500 to five students participating in the 2021 Match. Check it out! Match Week is huge for senior medical students. It’s the week they find out if they will continue their training (yikes!), and where in the country they will go to complete it…and this year’s match was even more-than-usually anxiety provoking due to COVID.