Interview with Ardis Dee Hoven, April 3, 2015

Partial Transcript: Good afternoon.

Segment Synopsis: Hoven discusses her family as a child, as well as how she came to the conclusion that she wanted to pursue a career in the medical field. She mentions that her family was extremely supportive and that she believes if her mother had the resources when she was younger that she would have also become a physician.

Keywords: Attention; Barriers; Challenges; Colleges; Criteria; Decisions; Difficult; Doctors; Educational opportunities; Extracurricular activities; Fathers; Female pediatricians; Giving; Good grades; Growing up; Henry Clay High School; Hesitation; High schools; Ideas; Medical schools; Medicine; Ministers; Missionaries; Missionary physicians; Musicians; Reunions; Rocking chairs; Sisters; Spirit; Students; Suppers; Supportive; Women pediatricians

Subjects: Childhood; Cincinnati (Ohio); Education; Families.; Lexington (Ky.); Women physicians.

Partial Transcript: Okay, so, after high school, you went to the University of Kentucky to do your undergraduate work.

Segment Synopsis: Hoven discusses her time spent at the University of Kentucky during her undergraduate career. She also talks about applying for medical school and weighing all of her options in terms of her career path.

Keywords: Big classes; Biochemistry; Biological sciences; Career paths; College campuses; Conversations; Curriculum; Economics; Fire hoses; Funkhouser Building; Grade point average; Infectious diseases; Interviews; Laboratories; Lessons; Medical schools; Microbiology; Overwhelming; Physics; Plans; Research; Rigid; Scholarship money; Sciences; Studies; Study; Undergraduate work; University of Kentucky; University of Louisville

Subjects: Education, Higher--Kentucky; Medical education; Undergraduate; University of Kentucky. College of Medicine; Women physicians.

Partial Transcript: Okay, so--(coughs)--you were admitted to medical school at UK.

Segment Synopsis: Hoven discusses her time spent in medical school, including the classes, clerkships, and fellow students. She also talks about her relationship with the chief of medicine and how he helped her to find the school in which she wanted to do her internship and residency.

Keywords: Academic physicians; Arrogant; Auditorium; Cadavers; Care; Challenges; Chief of medicine; Children; Classes; Clerkships; Daniel Boone Clinic; Dissections; Doctors; Elements; Faculty; Foundations; General surgery; Graduation; Groups; Hardworking; Infectious disease specialists; Influences; Interests; Internal medicine; Interns; Internships; Jobs; Knowledge; Leaders; Material; Medical schools; Medical students; Neuro system; Neuro-anatomy; OB-GYN; Opportunity; Orthopedics; Pathway; Pediatric cardiology; Pediatrics; Physiology; Professors; References; Residency; Residents; Rotations; Scary; Skills; Specialties; Strategies; Stressful; Studying; Succeed; Supportive; Surgeons; University of Kentucky; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Subjects: Education, Higher--Kentucky; Medical education; Medicine.; Universities and colleges.; University of Kentucky. College of Medicine; Women physicians.

Partial Transcript: Um, let me pull it back just a little bit and ask you about women faculty.

Segment Synopsis: Hoven discusses the female role models that were available to her during medical school, as well as the relationship she had with her fellow classmates. She talks about what they did in their free time to relieve the stress of medical school, and the competition between them to succeed in their medical education.

Keywords: Accommodations; Alone; Bars; Bonds; Challenges; Clerkships; Competitive; Couples; Cultural issues; Dynamics; Eastern Kentucky; Exams; Experiences; Female faculty; Flexibility; Friends; Gender; Knowledgeable; Laundry; Learning; Libraries; Male students; Medical facilities; Medical schools; Medical students; Mentors; Negative; Oral presentation; Parking; Parties; Patients; Pediatric cardiology; Pediatric cardiology clinics; Peers; Performance; Personality; Psychiatrists; Public venue; Relationships; Role models; Socialization; Standards; Support groups; Surgeons; Wives; Women faculty; Women students

Subjects: Competition.; Education, Higher--Kentucky; Medical education; Relationships.; University of Kentucky. College of Medicine; University of Kentucky. Medical Center; Women physicians.

Partial Transcript: So, tell me, at this point, then, how did you--I mean, what is your domestic life like?

Segment Synopsis: Hoven discusses when she got married and how she feels she prioritized her life to make the best choices for herself. She also talks about how she gives advice to young women regarding the reality of having to make concessions to attain the career and family that they desire.

Keywords: Academic medicine; Advice; Career-driven; Children; Choices; Concessions; Conversations; Domestic life; Dynamics; Goal-oriented; Goals; Opportunity; Options; Prioritize; Residents; Successful; Super achievers; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Subjects: Careers; Choices and challenges; Families.; Marriage; Physicians (General practice); Women physicians.

Partial Transcript: Um, okay, tell me a little bit about your mentors.

Segment Synopsis: Hoven discusses the mentors that she has looked up to throughout her entire career, as well as the qualities of those mentors that make them good physicians.

Keywords: Attractive; Bedside; Compassionate; Concerts; Dr. Jackie Noonan; Dr. Janet Fisher; Grand pianos; Healthcare; Information; Medicine training programs; Practical; Professional; Reasonable; Role models; Science; Self-confidence; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Subjects: Mentorship; Physicians (General practice); Role models.; Women in medicine; Women physicians.

Partial Transcript: Okay, so, tell me about how you chose this internship.

Segment Synopsis: Hoven discusses her internship and residency at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill as well as the moment that she finally felt like a physician. She also mentions a lesson learned regarding the press.

Keywords: Accommodating; Adjustments; Attendings; Chest pain; Chief of medicine; Communications; Complications; Consultants; Diagnosticians; Diagnostics; Doctors; Dr. Fred Sparling; Faculty; Faculty positions; Fevers; Football players; General surgery residency; Grades; Heat stroke; Hospitals; Inappropriate; Infectious disease fellowships; Intensive Care Unit (ICU); Internal medicine; Internists; Internships; Learning; Microbiology; Oral exams; Pathway; Plastic surgery; Press; Problem solvers; Processes; Resolutions; Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever; Rotations; Senior fellows; Specialty; Surgeons; Toothpaste; Tough; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Subjects: Careers; Medical education; Medicine.; Physicians (General practice); Women in medicine; Women physicians.

Partial Transcript: So, you were offered this position, um, with North Carolina as a faculty member.

Segment Synopsis: Hoven discusses her career in infectious disease after returning to Kentucky from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She talks about the HIV epidemic and her role in helping infected patients cope with the disease. She also discusses her influence in the various medical associations and societies that helped pass HIV/AIDS legislation that was compassionate towards the patients.

Keywords: "Gay bowel disease"; "Gay bowel syndrome"; Academic centers; Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); American Medical Association; Authority; Baptist Health Hospital; Cases; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Clinical responsibilities; Clinicians; Compassion; Complications; Conferences; Debates; Delegates; Diarrhea; Difference; Diseases; Doctors; Dr. Bob Noble; Faculty members; Fayette County Medical Society; Fevers; Hard work; Healthcare; Horse industry; Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); Immune systems; Impact; Infectious disease consultants; Infectious diseases; Information; Intensive Care Unit (ICU); Internal medicine; Interviews; Kentucky Medical Association; Kentucky Medical Society; Knowledge; Lexington Clinic; Lexington community; Life spans; Medicine departments; Opportunity; Pain; Patients; Political environment; Presidents; Private practice; Progression; Puss Queen; Research; Researchers; St. Joseph's Hospital; State government; State legislature; Suffering; Supportive; Tolerance; UK Good Samaritan Hospital; University of Kentucky

Subjects: AIDS (Disease); HIV infections.; Lexington (Ky.); Medicine.; Physicians (General practice); Women in medicine; Women physicians.

Partial Transcript: In looking back, what do you consider as some of the biggest accomplishments of your career, in terms of things you've been able to achieve?

Segment Synopsis: Hoven discusses the biggest accomplishments of her career, which include her work with HIV/AIDS patients as well as pushing legislation for accessible healthcare for the uninsured.

Keywords: Academic medical centers; Access; Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); Affordable Care Act; American Medical Association; Appropriateness; Board of trustees; Challenges; Costs; Council on Medical Service; Coverage; Debates; Dues; Educators; Epidemics; Federal funding; Federal programs; Fortune; Health insurance; Healthcare workers; Heat; House of delegates; Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); Kentucky Medical Association; Knowledge; Legislation; Management; Mandates; Medicaid; Medical community; Medicare; Mitigate; Passionate; Pathways; Political arena; Quality; Quality of life; Responsibility; Spokesperson; Supreme Court; Training; Work

Subjects: AIDS; Communities.; HIV patients; Laws and legislation; Leadership; Lexington (Ky.); Medicine.; Physicians (General practice); Women in medicine; Women physicians.

Partial Transcript: Um, so, let me pull us together just a little bit and sort of summarize.

Segment Synopsis: Hoven discusses some of the advice that she would give to future medical students and medical school faculty that would improve the future of the students as well as the medical field.

Keywords: Advocates; Clinicians; Difference; Educators; Faculty; Leaders; Medical careers; Medical schools; Medical students; Open-minded; Passion; Patients; Policies; Policy; Public good; Ranks; Residents; Roles; Students; Successful; Suggestions; Verbal; Wise

Subjects: Careers; Medicine--Study and teaching; Medicine.; Physicians (General practice); Teaching; Women physicians.

Partial Transcript: Looking back--just sort of summarizing all of this conversation.

Segment Synopsis: Hoven discusses some of the contributions that the early female graduates of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine made to the medical field, as well as some of her own more recent adventures in the medical field.

Keywords: Academic centers; Access to care; Agendas; American Medical Association; Board of trustees; Children; Clinical practice; Diversity; Elections; Gender; Glass ceilings; Hard work; Income; Infectious diseases; International challenges; Languages; Nationality; Pathways; Violence; Women's health; World Medical Association

Subjects: Change.; Medicine.; University of Kentucky. College of Medicine; Women in medicine; Women physicians.