The second episode features our guest Charles Lane, who is in his fourth year of medical school at Emory. Listen to the riveting discussion amongst Charles and PHA Peer Mentors Nicole Lulkin (22C), Alex Beesley (22C), Denver Roberts (22C) and Sabina Iqbal (23C)! They chat about his navy experience, project in the medical humanities on using compassion to connect allied health professionals with medical professionals, his path to Emory, and how his practice of Cognitively Based Compassion Training shapes his experience as a medical student. He also gives tips to students interested in medicine and those interested in beginning their own meditation journeys.
The podcast episode can be streamed on Spotify or YouTube (see below)! This is a great listen for any downtime during your winter break.
Below is Charles’ bio, for more about him:
Charles Lane served as a US Navy nuclear submarine officer for six years before
starting medical school at Emory University in 2018. He is a yoga and
meditation instructor, and in 2020 he completed a certification in
Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT) – a contemplative practice rooted
in Tibetan Lojong compassion meditation. He has elected to
delay medical school graduation for a year to work on a project in medical
humanities and quality improvement. This discovery project seeks to create a
paradigm shift in the content, context, and culture of medical education to
more deliberately train and support the enaction of compassion for self,
inter-professional colleagues, and patients. Ultimately, he is still undecided
on which field of medicine to complete his residency training in; though he is
fascinated by the growing field of trauma-sensitive interventions seeking to
reintegrate mind and body.