Physician | Writer | Educator

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Ria Kraft is a radiation oncologist with a love for teaching & narrative medicine.

Medical Education

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Rad Onc Talk is a YouTube-based lecture series created for students and residents of radiation oncology. Lecture videos review disease site-specific topics in an evidence-based format from a radiation oncology perspective. An optional paid subscription to the Rad Onc Study Club offers access to interactive, Q&A style videos that review cases in a mock oral board exam style format.

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Spoonful of Sugar is a podcast made for medical students, by medical students, to help the medicine go down. Episodes review topics pertinent to the USMLE board exams in a Q&A style format so listeners can test what they know. Episodes are hosted almost exclusively by medical students across the globe!

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Writing

Pandemic Intern

By Ria Mulherkar

Brown Journal of Medical Humanities

2024

Yellow

By Ria Mulherkar

HEAL Journal of Florida State University

2020

Deference to Difference

By Ria Mulherkar

Brown Journal of Medical Humanities

2024

Emotions, A Murky Abyss

By Ria Mulherkar

The Tincture, Drexel University College of Medicine’s Literature & Arts Journal

2019

The Other Side of the Mask

By Ria Mulherkar

Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine

2021