(Recorded in March 2021)

On this week's episode, an episode release long overdue featuring then M4 (now PGY-1 at Vanderbilt Internal Medicine Residency) Rana Elgazzar.  Here her talk about her experiences growing up in Tennessee, being a Muslim woman in medicine, and Rana & Habeeb's QI project around Improving Obstetric Care for Muslim Women! 

• Interview:  Introduction
  • Who is Rana Elgazzar? 
  • How did you get to where you are sitting right now?
    • Upbringing
    • High School
    • College/Pre-Med
    • Medical School
• Discussion: Muslims & Medicine
  • What is it like being Muslim in clinical spaces (either as provider and/or patient)? What is it like as a hijabi to interact with patients and colleagues who may have preconceived notions of you (or you should be)?
  • What kind of issues have you seen or been involved in that deal with Muslim patients?
• Discussion: Caring for Muslim Patients
  • Tell us about your quality improvement project:  “Improving Obstetric Care for Muslim Patients”; how did it start? What kind of work did you do? What were the results?
  • There are often many ethical concerns that come to play when caring for Muslim patients.  Specifically, questions often arise about discrimination, preferential treatment, and whether accomodations are even possible.  What do you think about these issues? Are there practical ways that such issues can be tackled? 
• Ending
  • 10 years from now:  where can we find you?
  • Where can we follow you?

Our guest for this episode is Aisha Suara, a fourth year medical student at Vanderbilt Medical School, fellow A2O team member, and Habeeb's younger sister; listen to her talk about her journey to medicine, and what health equity and primary care mean to her.  Habeeb & Aisha also trade embarrassing stories from growing up and going to school together; you don't want to miss it! 

Interview:  Introduction

• Who is Aisha Suara?

How did you get to where you are sitting right now?

• Upbringing (Ethnic Background, Values, Influences/Role Models, etc.)
• High School (Challenges, Formative Experiences, etc.)
• College/Pre-Med (Motivations for pursuing medical school, challenges, etc.)
• Medical School

Interview Topic #1: The Health Equity Lens

• What does health equity mean to you?
• How do you think your upbringing in rural Tennessee impacted your view of health equity and your goals as a physician?

Interview Topic #2: Primary Care:  Med-Peds vs. Family Medicine

• How did you choose med-peds as your medical specialty? 
• How would you compare/contrast med-peds to family medicine? What about med-peds you to choose it as your way of providing primary care to patients instead of family medicine?
• What do you think about the perception of primary care as “easy” or “boring”?
• How do you plan to embody the principles of health equity into your career as a PCP?

Conclusion

• Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Where can we find you?
• Where can we follow you?

****recorded in March 2021****

This episode features Dr. Janice Bonsu, a recent graduate of The Ohio State College of Medicine. Soon after this recording, she became a PGY-1 in orthopedic surgery at Emory College of Medicine, where she is the first Black woman to become a part of their program!  Hear her discuss  the various major academic leadership positions she's held, the lessons she's learned along the way, and how she plans to pay it forward.

• Interview:  Introduction
  • Who are you? 
  • How did you get to where you are sitting right now?
    • Upbringing
    • High School
    • College/Pre-Med
    • Medical School
• Interview Topic #2:  Leadership
  • What does leadership mean to you?
  • You have held many esteemed leadership roles, many of which have given you the opportunity to be an advocate that many, especially minorities are not privy to;  can you take us through your leadership journey and some of the cool opportunities you've been able to have?
  • What perspectives do you feel are often missing in rooms and spaces of leadership? (i.e. seats at the table)
• Interview Topic #3:  Military Service 
  • Question #1:  Can you tell us more about your enlisting in the Air Force? What motivated you to serve your country?
  • Question #2:  What did the Match mean for you?
• Conclusion
  • Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Where can we find you?
  • Where can we follow you?