Okay, so the students in residence and early career leaders. I'm going to figure out how to stop share here. And I want to mention and introduce a few people. I see Dr. Jeff at nylon. Dr. nylon was introduced to me by Dr. Campbell. Uh, he's going to be doing his transitional year residency soon and ask some interest in occupational medicine. So, we're going to try to shepherd him through that process. Uh, of learning where those residencies are and how to apply to. Dr. Luther is 1 of our students that represents all the students on our board of trustees. Dr. Jalen Newsome is with us. Dr. Newsome just rotated off of our board as our trustee representing. Students in residence, and we're going to continue to keep them engaged and involved. In our early career outreach efforts. So, welcome Dr. Newsome I did permit everyone to to me. So, as as, as you alternate answer these questions, we'd love for you to be able to unmute yourself. But Dr. Corey Morrison's phenomenal. Dr. Morris is doing his residency in Kentucky at there. And he was the student rep on the board. He interviewed several of you Dr. Bella and I recall Dr. uh. Silverman, and those videos were on social media and have received a number of hits. We also had them at the. Exhibit hall playing on a cycle, and it just told. Of various students and residents that came to the exhibit booth and allow them to look and see. Of someone doing a brief description of their career, and it showed the diversity of career opportunities within fashion. Dr. along with her colleague, Dr Luther, who are previously introduced is currently representing students on your board of trustees. Dr. and agarwal both presented to the board of trustees toward the end of last year. A very detailed plan on how we could do a better job reaching out to students, residents and early career physicians. And a lot of that. Was wrapped into the strategic plan that you just heard. So, with that, I'm going to ask 1st, Dr. Luther. If you don't mind just submitting yourself and telling us what drew you to the preventive medicine profession. And in medicine in general, but briefly. All right. Oh, yeah. Bear with me. Let me, let me do some gymnastics here. 1, or 2. Whenever you put the needle for vaccination. Okay, all right. We're good now. I'm sorry. Dr. Luther. So, what drew you to our profession? Sure. Hi, everyone. It's nice to meet you. As Jeff mentioned, my name is Megha Luther. I go to VCOM in my 2nd year. So, I am currently in the beginning stages of figuring out what I want to do with my profession. And I was specifically drawn to preventive medicine. It's not a field I was exposed to in undergrad, but I do appreciate how much. Variety and experiences that you would be able to have in preventive medicine, whether you want to work in a public health department or with a governmental agency. I think the breadth of opportunities is really cool and really interesting. And I do think preventive medicine is extremely important. I think we all have someone in mind that we think can think of that could benefit from preventive medicine. So, I think the patient population is something that's unique to preventive medicine, and that's why I'm really interested in it. Thank you. Dr. Morris, same question. Hello, everybody. So, my name is Corey Morris. I am a current intern at Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital in Somerset, Kentucky. About to finish up my intern year, so very excited about that. What drew me to medicine in general was just growing up in a small town, kind of just idolizing the doctors that were there, loving the fact that you get to help people, but also learn science together. My main goal is to go back to a rural community and practice kind of broad spectrum primary care medicine. But the main part of medicine is the preventative medicine. You don't necessarily need to heal sickness or anything like that if you can do it and take care of it beforehand. What drew me to this organization was Mr. Jeffrey was working at my school where I was at at LMU. And so I was encouraged to kind of reach out to him because I had some interest in aerospace medicine and hyperbaric medicine. So I reached out to kind of join this group. And when I joined this group, there was a position open for the trustee of students. So I just jumped right on into it and I've enjoyed it ever since. And that's why I stayed in this group so long. Everybody's been so welcoming and kind and informative and just a great group to be in. Thank you, Dr. Morris. Dr. Newsom, as someone who recently completed your residency, we'd love to hear about that, but also tell us how we could get more Jalon Newsom's involvement into our organization. All right. No problem. Thank you so much for having me, everybody. So I'm sorry. Frog in my throat. All right. So my name is Jalon Newsom and I am in the unique situation of also being in the military. So I'm in the finishing up my residency in aerospace medicine down here at Fort Rucker, Alabama. And I recently finished up my time as part of the board. It was an excellent experience. And so what kind of drew me into preventive medicine is originally I did my I did a first residency in family medicine. And I quickly noticed that a lot of my patient population and a lot of my visits centered around preventative medicine and public health and helping trying to enable people to find health rather than, you know, cure disease. And so that as I kind of travel the world with the military, I kind of realized that the world is rapidly growing smaller, not larger. And we are needing to understand and really help help people around us really find health and prevent a lot of these diseases. And then it really, really obviously kicked off with covid. Right. That brought preventative medicine to the forefront when pretty much all of my bosses in the military and everything, all of a sudden it was primarily focused on preventive medicine that just really just kind of solidified everything for me. In terms of finding more like me is I hope I don't know if you want to find more like me, but I think we just need to really stay engaged and capture the audiences when when we're young in the field. I didn't really know about preventive medicine until I was after I was in the military and doing family medicine is when I started hearing more about preventive medicine and meeting the chief of preventive medicine at my at my hospital or meeting the chief of public health. So finding out about that, finding out about it early and then offering things like we talked about during the strategic meeting, offering different ways for the medical students and for the residents to present on the national level to present and add to their CV is really going to help out, because when you're that when you're young, that's what you're looking for is looking for ways to stand out and offering providing those opportunities are what's going to make people stand out and draw you in. And then as we progress into board certification and things like that. Oh, you just went, you just sorry. So as we progress into certification and after you graduate residency, thinking of things like the CMEs, the things to keep people engaged, like maybe it doesn't have to be large, hey, 30, 30 hour CME sessions. It's maybe offering a journal article online and having a short quiz to give you an hour or two every month to keep you engaged. Those low, those low hanging fruits and just things like that, I think that will really go a long way. Thank you. Thank you so much. So Dr. Agarwal is the second half of the dynamic duo. You heard from from Dr. Luther, a student Dr. Luther a little bit earlier. So Dr. Agarwal, what drew you to public health and preventive medicine? And you have kind of a unique background. So I'll let you mention that, too. Absolutely. Hi, everyone. I'm a second year at the Edward Valley College of Osteopathic Medicine, along with my colleague, Dr. Luther. So what drew me to public health and medicine? I remember I used to be a biology major in college and I was thinking, you know, I'm learning a lot of these science, but I'm not really learning how to apply it to people. And I enjoy working with people. And that's what I want to do. So, you know, I heard from a classmate that she had switched her major to something called community health. And I had never heard of that before, but she started telling me about her classes. You know, they focused on learning about disease and learning about medicine a little bit and all those processes, but not just how the science worked, but how they can also apply it to caring for people and individuals and then the overall health of the population. And that really drew me in. So I remember I switched my major. You know, I started learning about health promotion of disease, health education, and I absolutely loved it. I saw this documentary in one of my classes about global health, and they were using community health workers to help people take medicines, help teach people about potential risks to their health. And I found it very interesting because they were not only using medicine to treat people, but they were also focusing on preventing disease. And so I went on to actually get a master's in public health from my undergrad institution. And then what drew me into medicine is really seeing that preventive medicine, public health and just medicine in general really go hand in hand, because not only do you need to treat diseases out there, but you also need to figure out a way to prevent them and to provide access as well to people who patients who might not be able to otherwise get quality health care. And that was a really important part of me becoming interested in preventive medicine as well. Thank you so much. So, Dr. Nyland, our student Dr. Nyland, I don't want to put you on the spot. You learned about our organization hours ago. However, I did want to give you the opportunity to ask any of our early career leaders that you've heard from any questions you may have as someone who's contemplating specifically a career in occupational medicine, which is one of the branches of preventive medicine, as I discussed in my email to you. Yeah, certainly. Are y'all able to hear me OK? We hear you, Liam and Charlie. All right. Excellent. Yeah. So my surroundings are a little bit strange right now because we actually moved over the weekend. So I'm in the old house that still has Internet right now. But I guess this starts probably about 10 years ago. So I did my undergrad at Auburn University in chemical engineering. While I was there, I did a co-op job and I worked at Southern Nuclear. So I worked at a nuclear plant in South Georgia for about a year. And that was sort of a turning point, I guess, in my life. I really didn't like the work that much, to be frank. So it was a lot of inputting values and spreadsheets, not that much time of actually working with people. So that was around the time I decided to pursue medicine. So sort of pivoted to completing all my pre-med electives while I was an undergrad at Auburn. And then fast forward about 10 years, finally made it into medical school, had a lot of twists and turns, I guess, in life. But that happens to almost everybody, I think. So just recently applied to anesthesiology was pretty devastated six days ago to learn that I did not match. And I guess sort of had a flurry of looking for what I can do next, what my plans are going to be for next year. So I've secured a transitional year position down here, actually at Southeast Health in Dothan, Alabama, Dr. Newsom. So I'm about 25 minutes away from you. So I guess right now, where I am in terms of occupational medicine is I really like the idea of being able to be in that sort of industrial setting, like at a nuclear power plant, a large corporation, but treating the individuals that work there and making sure their environment is safe. I think that's kind of a neat way to bridge my background with medicine in a way that, frankly, I did not even know was possible. I was not aware of this as a specialty choice prior to probably about a week ago. And then Mr. LaBeouf and Rhonda have been amazing about communicating with me basically immediately, being able to get me to be able to virtually attend some of these lectures at this conference, which I found very interesting. So I guess, again, where I am right now is I have the next year position already secured. I'm planning to apply to occupational medicine. It's a little bit challenging down here in Dothan to find a board certified occupational medicine physician. I think the nearest one is about 100 miles away, but I've made some calls to a couple of different offices to get some time with them in their clinic to see what their day-to-day life is actually like. So I guess that's really where I am right now. I don't know that I have any specific questions per se, but it would be great to hear some feedback about what those plans are. Well, we could help you network you to some physicians that you could shadow and get some experience with. I know Dr. Campbell's well-connected in that neck of the woods. I'll tell you one thing. You're going to be so much less bored practicing Occ-Med than you will anesthesia. I mean, anesthesia is not much different than putting stuff in a spreadsheet. Anyway, if you look at the Medscape data that comes out every year when they do a bar graph, I'm sorry, a scatterplot of one axis is job satisfaction and the other axis is burnout. Especially every year that has the lowest burnout and the highest job satisfaction is the one that you're talking to now. So it's a great lifestyle. So the next question, and I don't have time for every one of you. Go ahead, Dr. Mission. So real quick, I just wanted to give a plug. After this, please, please, please connect with me. So as I said before, I'm finishing up my aerospace medicine residency. However, the unique thing about the Army residency is it's a dual program where I do aerospace medicine for two years, and then I do occupational medicine for one year. And so my next year, if it's coming up, I'll be doing occupational medicine. So because we'll be board certified in one specialty, we can get advanced standing for another specialty of preventative medicine, which allows us to do the occupational medicine, just the one year of occupational medicine, and then sit for the OCMED boards after that. However, I know you're not in the military, however, but we have a occupational medicine residency here where we have some OCMED docs who are in the military, but have done the OCMED job at other places that I might be able to connect you to, to just ask those kind of basic questions. Additionally, we have some rotations in the area with, I believe it's like Farley NUCMED, like Farley, like nuclear power plant with a couple of nuclear power plants in the area, where we might be able to do something to connect you with the right people to get some other experience from that. I don't want to steal anybody's thunder, but I just wanted to kind of throw that out there. So please, please, please connect with me after this. So you see, Dr. Watt, the young people do network. Isn't that great? We were talking about the power of networking and how we wished that when we were young, we appreciated how much your colleagues helped you out in your career. So that's a key lesson, and it was just demonstrated. So I thank you for that. So the next question, and again, maybe just one or two of you might reply, is what can the college do to provide value and to what I'm going to just say, what can we do to make you feel so loyal that you're willing to join us, not just for a year or two, but for your career? I can answer this if that's all right. Yeah, go ahead. Thank you, Sanjali. Sure thing. So something that I think a lot of students could really benefit from, I think we mentioned this before in other sessions, is a mentorship program. Being able to speak and connect with residents and physicians who are actually in the field can really help build those connections and lasting relationships over a period of years, even. And I think that's something that once you have those established relationships, where you're able to learn and connect, but also get advice about your career and future directions that you can take in any of the specialties, preventive medicine, any of the subspecialties, I mean like aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, foreign medicine, public health. Having those career opportunities available to you and just even knowing what your options are, I think that's a really great way to kind of build that mentorship up, learn what your options are, learn more medicine, and just develop that over a period of years. So thank you. That's a great suggestion. What I'll do is y'all could email me a quick synopsis of the type of mentor you would like and also your current CV or resume, and I will forward that to members that I think might be a good fit, and we'll identify a mentor for each of you. So that's what you can do immediately. But then within a week or so, I'll actually put together a little I Need a Mentor survey form that kind of asks you a few pinpointed questions because I want to make the best mentors I've ever had have not been assigned to me. They've kind of happened organically, but I know that that's challenging when you're a busy med student and you haven't had an opportunity to interact a lot with our members to be able to find one organically. So we will try to match you, but I want to make sure that we get to some baseline. I'm going to say qualitative data so that we could hopefully make a good match. So thank you. So that's a very easy suggestion for us to operationalize. Any other thoughts? I'm sorry, Dr. Morris. You're fine. I just kind of continue what you all are doing now. When I joined as a student, y'all were so involved about just getting me involved, having me meet people, help like you all have done with Dr. Nyland just now. Inviting people and just being warm and welcoming. It's like a big family here and if you just continue that warming aspect, people aren't going to want to leave. They want to stay here and just foster those relationships they've already built. Thank you. We have a question from the audience. Give me a second. I'm going to sprint over with the microphone. Good morning. This is Dr. Dionne Wriston. One of my goals as president is to have each of our members, and I have a captured audience here right now, to give a two-sentence statement about some unique part of their practice, either what they're presently doing or what they've done in the past. For example, I'll use Dr. Berrios as an example. He's now the flight surgeon for the entire United States. So I was thinking that, especially the comment by you, Sanja, that being able to go on our website and just see a two-sentence statement about what all of the different members are doing, that it would also give you someone to contact to know more about that. So that is one of my goals. We're going to ask each member to send in a two-sentence statement that can be attached to their name, and then any student that we have can go and look and say, oh, I'd like to know more about that. So I really appreciate that all of you, because we want more involvement by our younger people. Okay, so now I'm going to do kind of an informal poll of our audience. In our virtual audience, you could vote by raising your virtual hands. Is this session a 30-minute module with early career physicians, students, and residents? And I'd like to get some early career physicians within three to five years of post-residency as well. Is this worth having on an annual basis, just a little 30-minute visit with them to find out how we're doing? Yes. Is that worth doing? Yes. Okay, great. I'm not going to consider making that longer. Yeah, yeah. Correct. Okay. So what we'll plan on doing is doing this at the same bat time and same bat station a year from now, you know, as our kind of our Sunday morning breakfast session. Yes, I thought timing-wise, they've already been having to apply for residency with October. We may be better in that process. Yeah, so we did something slightly different in October. Dr. Schwade actually sat down at OMED with a number, I think he had 13, that he sat down with, and we did a box lunch for them so that they could actually do Q&A. So we'll continue doing that as well at OMED. And what we'll do is we'll try to have at least one subject matter expert from each of the three disciplines sit down and just do Q&A with our students in a very informal luncheon setting at OMED. They had a big, huge dining hall right off of the exhibit floor where that was provided. And even if OMED doesn't continue that, as a college we're committed to continuing it. So thank you. Any in the last two minutes, any closing? Dr. Newsom's hand's still up, so I'm not sure if that's a remnant or if that's a new hand. Yep, new hand. Just wanted to throw in another suggestion in terms of kind of new career positions and residence. When I mentioned earlier the CME, I think that's a very big aspect that you could really capitalize on. Another organization I'm part of does CME tracking as well as a CME transcript. And honestly, the only reason I still am part of that organization is because of that, because it makes it so much easier. And I just submit all of my CME to them, they keep track of it. And then at the end of the year, I can just download a transcript. And that just kind of like the Apple universe where you buy in and then you're kind of stuck there. That's one way of looking at it. But like it really makes life easier for the new physician when we have to start thinking about the CME in a couple of years. And then offering maybe like a journal club type thing where you post a journal article and then ask a few questions on it and then maybe provide some CME based off of that. That's a kind of very, very low hanging fruit that you'll capture a lot of people that don't want to pay several hundred dollars as a new physician or as a resident or the residency, you don't really need CME, but as a new physician trying to get CME. So those are very low hanging fruit and you can just stay on top of the new developments in the field. So I think that would be a very lucrative aspect. Thank you so much. We'll take that under advisement and explore. I'll follow up with you. So I thank everybody here at the top of the hour. I think this was well worth having. We'll do it again next year and we'll try again to do some resident research presentations as well as that we'll have a forum for you to present your scholarly activity. So with that, I bid you adieu and I invite you to sit in for the remainder of the lectures. We got a really good one coming up that I think you'll find very enjoyable. God bless. Good luck.

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