Caroline King, Kelsey Priest & David Chen
Caroline King, MPH, is a third-year MD/PhD student at Oregon Health & Science University in biomedical engineering. Her work focuses on addiction, biostatistics, and data justice. Outside of school, Caroline enjoys trail running in the Pacific Northwest with her dog, Smudge.
Kelsey Priest, PhD, MPH, is a sixth-year MD/PhD student at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Kelsey’s work includes scholarship and action around issues related to addiction medicine, drug policy, and women-identified medical trainees. During medical school, Kelsey co-founded OHSU’s Women’s Leadership Development Program, the OHSU Gender Equity Center, and she served as a trainer and facilitator for Primary Care Progress’ Relational Leadership Institute.
Twitter: @kelseycpriest
David Chen is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is applying into internal medicine. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, reading, and playing basketball.
Twitter: @davidroychen
Kelsey Priest, PhD, MPH, is a sixth-year MD/PhD student at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Kelsey’s work includes scholarship and action around issues related to addiction medicine, drug policy, and women-identified medical trainees. During medical school, Kelsey co-founded OHSU’s Women’s Leadership Development Program, the OHSU Gender Equity Center, and she served as a trainer and facilitator for Primary Care Progress’ Relational Leadership Institute.
Twitter: @kelseycpriest
David Chen is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is applying into internal medicine. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, reading, and playing basketball.
Twitter: @davidroychen
Why Pimping, the Practice, and the Word—Should Be Eradicated from Medicine
The practice of pimping (also known as “toxic quizzing") and the use of the word in medical education is being called into question. In an article recently published in BMC Medical Education, the authors are asking the medical community to stop using this degrading word and for the end of this practice.
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It is the first month of medical school, and you hear the word pimping in an unfamiliar context: medical education. You learn that pimping, also known as “toxic quizzing”, happens when a junior trainee is asked a series of obscure or intentionally unanswerable questions, usually publicly, by a more senior physician. You may adopt pimping into your vocabulary, which is already rapidly expanding with medical terminology. Or you may not be able to shake the colloquial connotations of pimping – a form of sex-trafficking – and you may silently disengage when classmates and professors casually use the term. Or you may begin to question the culture of your profession, which has retained qualities of exclusion for women, non-binary individuals, and people of color throughout its evolution
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