14. Interview with Whitney Johnson, MD

Dr. Whitney Johnson is an emergency physician in Southern California and the Education Director for the Southwest Healthcare Medical Education Consortium Emergency Medicine Residency based at the Temecula Valley Hospital. She is also core faculty with EM:RAP, the largest emergency medicine educational platform, and serves as an associate editor for their online textbook CorePendium. She did her emergency medicine residency at UCSF Fresno and went to medical school at Georgetown University. But let’s not forget when she was an undergraduate student at the University of California, San Diego when she was named the NCAA D2 national field athlete of the year for setting the bar on triple jump in her senior year. What I’m trying to get at is that Dr. Johnson is an all star in whatever she does, and gets things done!

We became friends when she was a resident at the EM program I’m faculty at and I loved working shifts with her because I knew we would be serious one second and laughing the next, all while doing the best for our patients. Dr. Johnson is educating the next generation of EM doctors with grace, humility, hard work and humor and I loved talking with her about learning styles, her innovations in education, work-life balance, and everything in between. As she says, be unapologetically you, which is advice that we can all take!

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