The Clinical Excellence Podcast

Dr. Selwyn Rogers, the founding director of the University of Chicago Medicine Trauma Center, talks about trauma care and the importance of a team of skilled collaborators.

A hospitalist and clinical researcher discusses her wandering path into medicine.

Dr. Bree Andrews is the Chief Wellness and Vitality Officer at the University of Chicago. She discusses how early education and training of undergraduate students can help students gain key skills and experience needed to become a physician. She will also discuss her new role as Chief Wellness and Vitality Officer charged with assessing the state of wellness and implementation of programs that will improve ease of practice, resilience and collegiality for physicians.

A patient recounts a difficult and painful experience and discusses how she turned it into something positive for herself and for medicine.

An oncologist discusses the conversation that takes place around discontinuing cancer treatment.

Dr. Alex Lickerman from ImagineMD talks about the direct primary care model and what it can mean for the doctor-patient relationship.

Physician advocacy: what's necessary, how to do it, what are the pitfalls?

Living with and learning from medical errors.

Simple? Complicated? Complex? Complexity in Medicine and Medical Education.

Dr. Karnik, who works in the University of Chicago's Post-COVID Recovery Clinic, talks about taking care of patients with persistent symptoms after COVID infections and reflects on the doctor-patient relationship in this setting.

A patient talks about vaccines and long-term relationships.

Dr. Brian Callender is interested in clinical education, global health education, clinical ethics, the patient experience, and the use of graphic narrative in medicine. Dr. Matthew Sorrentino will lead a discussion with Dr. Callender on the role of graphic medicine and its impact on the doctor-patient relationship.

Psychiatrist Dr. Martin Greenwald talks about countertransference in the patient-doctor relationship.

Dr. Valerie Press' work primarily focuses on improving patient-centered education for underserved patients with chronic disease and limited health literacy through novel interventions in the community and hospital settings targeted at both patients and clinicians. Dr. Matthew Sorrentino will discuss Dr. Press's latest research projects.

Unsalvageable relationships. Terminating the physician-patient relationship.

A patient talks about Dr./Pt communication.

Dealing with patients who aren't happy when a second opinion turns out to be the same as the first.

Physician burnout for physicians who hate hearing about burnout.

Breaking bad news in surgical practice and preparing patients for the possibility of bad news.

Drs. Adam Cifu and Matthew Sorrentino discuss the new Clinical Excellence podcast. The podcast has three formats: discussions between doctors and patients, discussions with authors of research pertinent to improving clinical care and the doctor-patient relationship and discussions with physicians about challenges in the doctor-patient relationship or in the life of a physician.