64 - COVIDCast #15 - Dr. Umang Jain - How COVID Has Changed Life for an EM Resident

Summary: In this episode, I spoke with Dr. Umang Jain, who is a 3rd-year emergency medicine resident at Penn. We start off the episode discussing his interdisciplinary background and interests and what drew him to emergency medicine. We then speak about how COVID-19 has impacted his experience working in the emergency room, and how it has impacted residency training and the types of patients that he has been seeing. We also touch on some unexpected consequences of social distancing on the types of things presenting in the ED, the ways medical students and the community have come together to help healthcare workers, and how Dr. Jain has been coping personally through all of the stress. We'd been preparing to speak for a while, and I’m really happy we were able to connect and hear about his experience. Footnotes Umang’s LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/umangj/ Umang’s TED Talk http://media.licdn.com/embeds/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FY7PZS9qTwNY%3Ffeature%3Doembed&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DY7PZS9qTwNY&image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FY7PZS9qTwNY%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=b7276e97d3f840f38fbdb95eb1242b10&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube