Talk about a gunner, I have a student that speaks as fast as he thinks and gets it done at an equally fast pace. He is both impressive and effective.

He approached me about building a new program at his medical school, and because I am from the old school, I essentially told him to “Build it and we will come.” And that is exactly what he did. He rallied together the team on the ground of stakeholders – department chairs, diversity deans, physicians and students – all of whom had a vested interest in being part of something new and meaningful for the sake of knowledge and diversity.

Four months after our first conversation was a well-executed and impactful interactive learning session for close to 50 students from NYC.

More importantly, in a very short period of time, we were able to start building a rapport with a new group of medical school leaders, department chairs and attendings and residents in ways that I could not have done on my own.

So there you have it, I took a risk in letting go of having to be the “one” to do it all, and in the end, a whole new set of possibilities have emerged.

I think I need to take more of this “Let it go!” medicine. Off to watch and will go and watch Frozen for the second time with my boys. Should’ve watched it sooner.☺