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William Silverstein

General internist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Assistant Professor (Clinician in Quality and Innovation) at the University of Toronto.

Oct 24, 2026

Penny TeliopoulosMODERATOR
2:47
Please welcome Dr. Silverstein.
2:55
Okay, great.
2:55
So good morning, everyone.
2:58
Thank you for the very gracious introduction, Penny.
3:00
So my name is William Silverstein or Billy.
3:01
I guess I'm a podcast influencer now, but I'm also a general internist at the University of Toronto.
3:08
And today we're here to talk to you today about teaching wisely, which is how you can leverage education in order to reduce low value care on general internal medicine wards.

44 MINS LATER

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Dr. Jill Spiegel asks, how can we shift the culture of medical education so that residents are rewarded for thoughtful diagnostic reasoning and appropriate restraint, rather than feeling that they need to order more and more investigations to demonstrate their knowledge or thoroughness?

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