Ye Kyung Song, MD, PhD
Psychiatry | Medical Humanities
Assistant Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Education & Training
B. Sci - Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences
University of Houston (2012)
Magna cum laude
M.D.
University of Texas Medical Branch MD/PhD Program (2020)
Senior Alpha Omega Alpha
Ph.D - Social Medicine, Clinical Ethics
University of Texas Medical Branch MD/PhD Program (2020)
Harry Hunt Ransom Fellow
Dr. David C. Eiland Jr. Award in Health Care and Humanistic Medicine
Psychiatry Residency, Clinician Educator Track
Duke University 2024
American College of Psychiatrists Laughlin Fellow
Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine Clinical Ethics Fellow
Selected Publications
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Expressions of Medical Student Burnout on Reddit: An Autonetnographic Study of /r/medicalschool”
Race and Outcomes in Gastroschisis Repair: A Nationwide Analysis in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2017.
The Medical Student Manifesto in the Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal. 2017.
Memes in Medical Education: Making Sense of Professional Authority in Medical Anthropology Theory. 2019.
"This Isn't Being a Doctor." - Qualitative Inquiry into the Existential Dimensions of Medical Student Burnout in Medical Science Educator. 2020.
Moral Injury and Burnout in Health Care Professionals during the COVID-19 Pandemic in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 2021.
Morally Injurious Experiences and Emotions of Health Care Professionals during the COVID-19 Pandemic before Vaccine Availability in JAMA Network Open. 2021.