Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako is a 4th year med student (out of 5) at the Yale School of Medicine and hosts his own podcast, Flip the Script, about healthcare disparities. He starts out discussing how some of what we learn about race being a risk factor for some diseases are a product of social constructs, not genetic predisposition. We then discuss racial disparities in substance-use disorder treatment. We then pivot from health disparities to physician training disparities. We learn about the hardships faced by minority medical students from microaggressions from students and faculty to disparities in grading and how this can affect career trajectory. He ends by discussing some pearls he has learned from his own podcast.

Mr. Tiako grew up in Yaounde, Cameroon, and moved to the US to attend Howard University, got a BS in in civil and environmental engineering and then a Masters in Bioengineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently doing research connecting his civil/environmental engineering background to identify elements of urban design that can be leveraged to improve health outcomes and move the needle towards health equity. His research fellowship is at the Center for Emergency Care & Policy research at the University of Pennsylvania. He spends his free time writing about racism and medical education in the medical student magazine InTraining.

His Twitter handle: @MaxJordan_N

His podcast can be found here:

iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/flip-the-script/id1402777078

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/yaleuniversity/sets/flip-the-script

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1judlJj8gLg8OnVJtpXv7O?si=snZWGMbaRiafUfJZajHRyw

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