And I was just really captivated by the story, by some of the doctors who had started to speak within writing that article. So it started with a piece of reporting I did for the Times, in which I wrote about the medical schools that had decided to graduate their fourth-year students early and send them to the front lines, including NYU. Emma, can you share what prompted you to write this book in the first place? Where did the idea come from? So we're curious to learn just how all this started.

In which, Emma, you charted the course of some of these graduates who went out to serve the COVID-19 response and Dr. So we're here to talk about Emma's book, Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic. I'm a pediatrics resident at NYU Langone Hospital and I also worked as a temporary internal medicine resident during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.ĭr. I'm a journalist at the New York Times and the author of Life on the Line.ĭr. I serve as vice president for undergraduate medical education innovations at the AMA and I coordinate the efforts of our AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium. Kimberly Lomis, AMA vice president for undergraduate medical education innovations.ĭr. Gabriela Ulloa, a pediatric resident at NYU Langone Health. She’s joined by one of those graduates, Dr. In this episode of Moving Medicine, she shares the experience of following six fresh med school graduates amid the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. Unger: That was Emma Goldberg, a reporter for the New York Times and author of Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic. And like the reason that you decided to do this work in the first place. Goldberg: I think people just realize that no matter how prepared you spend medical school, getting, you can still be thrown into a situation that tests you in unexpected ways and that you'll just tap into the humanity. Unger: In 2020, the next generation of doctors were plunged into the responsibility of caring for patients at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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