Medical Student Podcast Sheds Light on Health Justice
Inaugural live podcast recording of Woke WOC Docs in Oakland September 27, 2019.
Three friends sit down on a Monday night after a full day of classes and studying. Music plays in the background as one of them jots down questions and ideas on the white board. In front of them lay mics and scattered cables, along with the haphazard dinner they had brought in. It has been almost a year since they started this biweekly tradition of recording their conversations about health justice and the narratives of womxn of color (WOC). Womxn is terminology used as an alternative spelling to women to be inclusive of transgender and non-binary people.
Woke WOC Docs, a podcast that highlights a health justice topic of interest in each episode, was created by Bernadette Lim and Nicole Carvajal, both third-year year students in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program and Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved, which aims to support and equip medical students to effectively promote health equity. Lim and Carvajal host the program with Ivie Tokunboh, a second-year UCSF medical student. Womxn of color health activists and experts are invited to share their insights on the show. Through that lens, the podcast, available on iTunes, SoundCloud, and Spotify, aims to reveal insights on how medicine can help to end health injustices and promote well-being and healing.