Pre-Clerkship Library Resources

The information resources you need for your first two years of medical school.

General Podcasts

Academic Medicine
Short, impactful episodes featuring stories about the art and heart of patient care.
The Curbsiders
Smart and funny podcast about everything internal medicine and beyond. Team includes students, residents and clinician educators from across the country.
The Informed Patient- SUNY Upstate
Upstate Medical University's weekly podcast featuring interviews from scholars, researchers, and clinicians at SUNY Upstate on topics of health, science and medicine.
Key Literature in Medical Education (KeyLIME)
Covers the main points of a medical education article in around 30 mins.
The Short Coat
Student co-hosts tell you what med school is really like, from the first year to the last, and beyond.

American Diagnosis
Who gets to be healthy? who doesn’t? and what can we do about it? A conversation about some of the biggest public health challenges across the United States
Beyond the White Coat
Dives into issues affecting the academic medicine community at-large, while also highlighting the important work happening at America’s medical schools, teaching hospitals, and within the communities they serve. Topics include: Covid-19, racism and public health, health disparities, bioethics, and health care policies.
Flip the Script
Discusses societal and healthcare issues that disproportionately affect the health of minorities, including but not limited to racial and ethnic minorities, sexual and gender minorities, and religious minorities, on a national and global scale.
HPP Podcast
Podcast from the Health Promotion Practice journal. Explores a wide range of socially relevant topics, including immigrant health, transgender care, disparities in healthcare access and more.
Medical Humanities Podcast
Current topics, interviews, and perspectives on global issues in health and medicine from around the world.

Annals of Internal Medicine (@AnnalsofIM)
A primary journal in Medicine
Bryan Leva, MD (@DrBryanLeyva)
AfroLatinx Scholar-Activist and pediatric physician in Minneapolis.
Dereck Paul, MD (@dereckwpaul)
Resident Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital who focuses on health equity, racism in medicine, and the underrepresented medical trainee experience .
Graphic Medicine (@GraphicMedicine)
The GraphicMedicine.org Twitter account
Muna Al-Jawad (@OPWhisperer)
Practicing Geriatrician and consultant in Elderly Medicine, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals
National White Coats for Black Lives (@natlwc4bl)
A medical student run organization whose mission is to "dismantle racism in medicine and promote the health, well-being, and self-determination of people of color."
Shirlene Obuobi (@shirleneobuobi)
Ghanian-American Internal Medicine resident. ShirlyWhirlMD has been featured in the Lancet, on Axios, Doximity.com, UChicago magazine, and more.
Whit Taylor (@WhitTalorComix)
Well-respected cartoonist addressing public health issues and structural disparities that lead to systemic health inequities