ABSTRACT
As first-year medical students at Albany Medical College, authors Aleena Paul and Ajay Major founded in-Training, an online peer-reviewed publication by and for medical students, in 2012. Since their launch, in-Training has published over 2,000 works by medical students across the globe, from narrative medicine reflections to poetry to op-eds to policy pieces, with over 6 million page views since its inception. This essay outlines the founders’ entrepreneurial framework in creating in-Training, including decisions made to facilitate organic evolution of the publication to meet the changing needs of the medical student community, governance structures built to ensure long-term sustainability, and how the publication has impacted the intersection of the humanities and medical education. The authors highlight their decade-long experience as entrepreneurs who developed an innovative publication house which creates authentic spaces for trainees at all levels of medical education, and in doing so, truly fosters the “art of medicine.”
