Conversations with Jillian - Interview with Dr. Teresa Chan [S4E03]

Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC as she speaks with Teresa Chan, HBSc, BEd, MD, FRCPC, MHPE, DRCPSC (Clin. Ed.), MBA, about navigating a career in medicine after a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis during residency.

In this conversation, Dr. Chan reflects on how her experience as a physician-patient has shaped the way she teaches, practises and leads. She speaks openly about the moments her own symptoms didn't match the textbook descriptions she had learned, and what that revealed about how medicine listens to patients. She also shares her perspective on accommodations in medical training and practice, the importance of physicians seeing themselves as people first, and why disclosing a chronic illness, rather than carrying it silently, so often changes everything.