Hello Everyone!

We have been gone for a while! This is primarily because we all took on new roles after graduating from residency. Adesola is now a Gastroenterology fellow and has been adjusting to that. Katrina and Shobana are both attendings in New Orleans and New York City, respectively.

In this episode, we have a wonderful guest, Dr. Janice Clarke, a primary care physician in Georgia. We address her transition from residency to her role caring for patients as the supervisor, without supervision, which i still think is scary and amazing!

Here are some of our show notes:

“Career transitions in medicine are often challenging and may provoke anxiety” - Jefferey Shen in AHA.

"2018 AAMC data shows that 53% of the African American Physician population is female. To be honest, that data also shows that 5% of doctors that year, roughly 45, 534, identify as black. In comparison, there were 516,304 white physicians that year"

"As of 2019-2020, Georgia has a population of 10,830,008 with a total of 24,914 active physicians (9.3% are 35 years and under, 11.5% identify as black, 36% are women). Population wise: 5.48M white residents, 3.28 M black and 524k Hispanic residents"