<span itemprop="author">Dr. Vivek Podder

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For a better practitioner and better outcomes, we need to start teaching this

Current medical education promotes and encourages the textbook approach to learning, while interactive patient-centered learning rarely happens. Although rote learning plays a critical role in medical education, applying what is learned deepens the und…

Turning obstacles into opportunities with diversified health care perspectives

I have experienced a wide spectrum of the health care ecosystem since childhood giving me a deeper insight into its future need. I suffered for 23 years with a wrong diagnosis and frequent long-distance hospital visits before my heart operation. For 14…

Does patient-centered care really meet human-centered care?

This episode was during my elective time in India in the late winter of 2017. It was a patient-centered learning opportunity for students around the world who has an interest in medicine. I was excited about this because of my earliest clinical exposur…