In this next conversation in our Gold Student Summer Fellows series, Gold Assistant Director of Program Initiatives Michelle Sloane interviews Preethi Reddi, who is a 2022 Gold Student Summer Fellow and a medical student at the Medical College of Georgia. Preethi grew up in rural Iowa, where she developed a passion for health promotion and advocacy by seeing first-hand the impact healthcare professionals made in her community. As an undergraduate at Emory University, she conducted research...

In this next conversation in our Gold Student Summer Fellows series, Gold Assistant Director of Program Initiatives Michelle Sloane interviews Maylis Basturk, a 2022 Gold Student Summer Fellow and medical student at Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Before medical school, she worked as a lab technician in a Drosophila lab at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and as a Research Associate at the Silicon Valley genetic testing startup company Color Health....

In this next conversation in our Gold Student Summer Fellows series, Gold Assistant Director of Program Initiatives Michelle Sloane interviews Mollie Marr, who is a 2022 Gold Student Summer Fellow and medical student in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Oregon Health & Sciences University School of Medicine. at Oregon Health & Science University. Her PhD is in Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience, and her dissertation examined the intergenerational transmission of childhood...

This  episode continues a series of conversations with winners of the Gold  Foundation's Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest. Molly Fessler, who won second place for nursing students students in the 2022 contest,  reads her essay, "Every Patient After." That reading is followed by a conversation with Molly and Gold Foundation Editor in Chief Brianne Alcala, exploring the writing process. Molly is a four-year student at the University of Michigan Medical School and a member...

This episode continues a series of conversations with winners of the Gold Foundation's Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest. Jessica Pierce, who won first place for nursing students students in the 2022 contest, reads her winning essay, "As the Sun Sets." That reading is followed by a conversation with Jessica and Gold Foundation Editor in Chief Brianne Alcala, exploring the writing process. Jessica is pursuing her doctoral degree in Nurse Anesthesia at Oregon Health &...

This episode begins a series of conversations with winners of the Gold Foundation's Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest. Mason Blacker, who won first place for medical students in the 2022 contest, reads his winning essay, "The Light." That reading is followed by a conversation with Mason and Gold Foundation Editor in Chief Brianne Alcala, exploring the writing process. Mason is a medical student at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Extra thanks to AAMC and the Academic...

In this next conversation in our Gold Student Summer Fellows series, Gold Assistant Director of Program Initiatives Michelle Sloane interviews Etta Conteh, Yamilet Gonzalez, and Hannah Wilson, who are 2022 Gold Student Summer Fellows and medical students at the University of Central College of Medicine. Together with three other medical student team members, they developed M.E.D.S. (Medical Enrichment for Diverse Students), an innovative Orlando-based  student-led mentoring program that...

In this next conversation in our Gold Student Summer Fellows series, Gold Assistant Director of Program Initiatives Michelle Sloane interviews Johanna Balas, who is a 2022 Gold Student Summer Fellow and a medical student at the Rush University. Her service project, titled "Implementing a Virtual Reality Training Program for CNAs Providing Care for Persons with Dementia," integrated a virtual reality (VR)-based online and in-person hybrid curriculum in the training of certified nursing...

In Episode 10, we continue our series of conversations with Gold Student Summer Fellows who each embarked on a summer research or service project to magnify humanism in healthcare and help address health inequities.  Gold Assistant Director of Program Initiatives Michelle Sloane interviews Abbygale Willging, who is a 2022 Gold Student Summer Fellow and a medical student at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Her service project, titled "Survey of Traditional Home Remedy Use in...

In this episode of the Gold Connection podcast, we kick off a series of conversations with Gold Student Summer Fellows who each embarked on a summer research or service project to magnify humanism in healthcare and help address health inequities. These are fascinating projects created by medical students to make a difference and grow their skills as future compassionate, relationship-centered physicians. In this first conversation, Gold Assistant Director of Program Initiatives Michelle...

In this episode, we talk 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. Gold Humanism Honor Society Director Louisa Tvito interviews interim Dean Dr. Natasha Bray and GHHS Chapter President Alex Douglas. OSU inducted its first GHHS members in 2022. Learn about the campus' unique curriculum, the story behind its beginnings and purpose,...

In Episode 7, join us for a special episode of the Gold Connection in recognition of National Suicide Prevention Month, which is every September. We are honored to welcome Dr. Tammie Chang and Dr. Luisa Duran, with Gold Humanism Honor Society Director Louisa Tvito, for an intimate conversation about physician wellness and the higher risks of burnout faced by female doctors. Dr. Chang and Dr. Duran met as college freshmen and went through medical school together. They happened to reconnect...

In Episode 6, we officially launch our new, multi-year Gold Humanism Honor Society International Initiative, “Healing the Heart of Healthcare: Reimagining how we listen, connect, and collaborate.” “Healing the Heart of Healthcare” builds on the previous, 2020-2021 GHHS initiative, “Humanism & Healing: Structural Racism & Its Impact on Medicine.” From that grew so many GHHS chapter projects, an anti-racism library, training tools, and much more – as well as an entire virtual...

In Episode 4, our Director of Program Initiatives and GHHS, Louisa Tvito, has a conversation with Dr. Olapeju Simoyan, a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Drexel University College of Medicine and the Medical Director of Research at Caron Treatment Centers. Dr. Olapeju shares her many experiences with the Gold Foundation, from participating as a dentist-turned-medical student in her first White Coat Ceremony to her Gold Student Summer Fellowship to being selected as a Gold...

In Episode 3, we look to the 2021 GHHS Solidarity Week for Compassionate Patient Care, an annual celebration of humanism that will look a bit different this year, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) Director Louisa Tvito interviews GHHS chapter leaders and advisors about their Solidarity Week plans, speaking to members from The Ohio State University's Medical School and University of South Alabama's College of Medicine, as well as the Gold Foundation head of...

This episode features Dr. George Thibault's powerful Jordan J. Cohen Humanism in Medicine Lecture, presented at the Association of American Medical Colleges' Annual Meeting in 2018. Dr. Thibault delves into the history of humanism and present-day attacks on humanism, and leaves us all with this powerful reminder: "It will be hard to have humanism in medicine if there is no humanism in the world around us." This episode is hosted by Dr. Hellen Ransom, member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society...

In the first episode, four Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) representatives discuss the 2020 GHHS National Initiative, Humanism and Healing: Structural racism and its Impact on Medicine, designed to encourage GHHS members to use their leadership roles to start or extend conversations about racism and its impact on medicine/healthcare in their local communities and beyond, to create space for grieving, processing, and bearing witness around this topic, or to take action in one of many...