*All episode summaries are interpreted by the host and are not intended to reflect direct statements made by guests or mentioned associations. Dr. Ryan Neuhofel is a family physician based out of Lawrence, Kansas. He is also the past President of the Direct Primary Care Alliance which advocates for a stronger community and physician-led mentorship through DPC medicine. He likens DPC to the “Costco” of primary care with an emphasis on disease prevention.Dr. Neuhfel states that having his own...

*All episode summaries are interpreted by the host and are not intended to reflect direct statements made by guests or mentioned associations. Dr. Gerald Diaz joins us today with his vast experiences in clinical medicine and medical education. He began his medical journey in an anesthesiology residency before settling in as an internal medicine physician. He also has a passion for medical education and is a co-founder of GrepMed, an online medical image repository. he has formed a...

Josh Umbehr is the CEO of Atlas MD and a family physician in direct primary care. With over ten years of clinical education experience, he has many useful pearls on how to approach primary care education. He also covers a lot of business negotiating and business of medicine education material in their clinical rotations. Healthcare revolves around money and physicians should be well educated in many of the business aspects that they may be involved in.In primary care, there are standard...

*All episode summaries are interpreted by the host and are not intended to reflect direct statements made by guests or mentioned associations. Dr. Daniel Hochman is a board-certified psychiatrist with a private practice in Austin, TX. He is the creator of a revolutionary online addiction recovery program, selfrecovery.org. Dr. Hochman advocates for using strategies proven through hard science and describes them in ways that are easy to understand and incorporate into one’s life. In this...

*All episode summaries are interpreted by the host and are not intended to reflect direct statements made by guests or mentioned associations. Dr. Brian Dooreck is a private practice gastroenterologist in south Florida. He actively produces “Lunch with Dr. Dooreck” educational videos for the LinkedIn community and has 11 years of clinical education experience. Today, he will teach us about the concerns with teaching general education, specialty-related obstacles in education, and simple...

*All episode summaries are interpreted by the host and are not intended to reflect direct statements made by guests or mentioned associations. Dr. Jeff Smith is a former residency director and current voluntary faculty member and assistant clinical professor at UCSD. He is an orthopaedic trauma surgeon and surgery coach that uses the 8 PRACTICEs of Highly Successful Surgeons to create a lifestyle-friendly practice. He also focuses on physician and student burnout and advocates for increased...

*All episode summaries are interpreted by the host and are not intended to reflect direct statements made by guests or mentioned associations. Dr. Tom Biernacki is a Residency Director in podiatric medicine. Similar to MD (allopathic physician) and DO (osteopathic physician) degrees, the DPM degree requires four years of medical school. They also have a mandated three-year residency, which is similar to many specialties in MD/DO pathways. It holds the most overlap with the medical specialty...

*All episode summaries are interpreted by the host and are not intended to reflect direct statements made by guests or mentioned associations. Dr. Kenneth Fisher practiced as a nephrologist for 31 years, is the author of multiple books related to healthcare including most recently Understanding Healthcare: A Historical Perspective, and is Co-Founder Michigan Free Market Medical Association. Kenneth believes in a medical system without the middleman and with greater price transparency. Medical...

*All episode summaries are interpreted by the host and are not intended to reflect direct statements made by guests or mentioned associations. Dr. Cindy Duke is a board-certified OBGYN and a reproductive endocrinologist based out of Nevada. Reproductive endocrinology is a specialization that focuses on the first twelve weeks of pregnancy and complications in that time frame. It is also an OBGYN specialty that works with both male and female patients. It allows medical students and physicians...

Residency program director, author, entrepreneur, and family medicine physician, Ted O’Connell, joins us today to discuss precepting of both medical students and residents in a variety of medical settings. He has many years as both a clinical educator as well as authoring educational review textbooks for students. His free question bank allows students to study medically relevant topics without the burden of extra expenses. Ted acknowledges that a preceptor must have a strong desire and...

*All episode summaries are interpreted by the host and are not intended to reflect direct statements made by guests or mentioned associations.  Jason Mizell a colorectal surgeon and clerkship director from the University of Arkansas and has been running a Business of Medicine course for several years. Like many students, Jason started off with a desire for one specialty (pediatrics) and ended up discovering that another option was much more enjoyable for him. He emphasizes that this is very...

*All episode summaries are interpreted by the host and are not intended to reflect direct statements made by guests or mentioned associations.  Rural family medicine and primary care hold many unique abilities for physicians and students. In fact, Dr. Errin Weisman is able to complete not only the normal primary care activities through her clinic, but some procedures that might otherwise be relegated to microbiology, histopathology, dermatology, surgery, or OBGYN practice. This has given her...

In Part 2 with Dr. Neel Desai, he advocates for students to continue to learn how to learn. The material, the science, and the medicine will continue to evolve and change. It is more important that you learn how to absorb materials better, faster, and for longer periods of time than to know everything there is to know right at this moment. He also wants students to focus on being Happier, Healthier, Wealthier, and Wiser. This is a theme that you will also hear via his contributions to the...

Dr. Neel Desai is a co-founder of MedFlashGo and a contributor at the Happy Doc Podcast. His training in family medicine has been a unique experience and has helped to shape his views on academic medicine and healthcare. He prefers to be proactive than reactive in his role as a primary care physician and wishes to empower patients with tools and education. He argues that the current model of healthcare is outdated and advocates that we start Teaching, Learning, Creating and Practicing...

Dr. James Gomez is board-certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology in the Chicago area and has been a clinical educator for over 10 years. As a community physician, he handles both in-clinic patients and prenatal care as well as hospital deliveries and surgeries. This specialty uniquely borders between primary care, surgery, and other subspecialties depending on each physician’s scope of practice.Preceptors in OBGYN (OB/GYN) often have a particularly sensitive population and special care is...

*All episode summaries are interpreted by the host and are not intended to reflect direct statements made by guests or mentioned associations. Dr. Allison Edwards is the owner of Kansas City Direct Primary Care. Though she works in the community, she still hosts students from the University of Kansas and other locations at her clinic. DPC is a movement as well as a clinical environment that is designed to eliminate the middle-person and reduce costs for patients. Direct Primary Care provides...

*All episode summaries are interpreted by the host and are not intended to reflect direct statements made by guests or mentioned associations*Please note my mistake in calling it the Alliance for Clinical EducatORS in the audio when, in fact, it is the Alliance for Clinical EducatION. Dr. Bruce Morgenstern is the Vice Dean of Academic and Clinical Affairs at Roseman University College of Medicine and President for the Alliance for Clinical Education (ACE). His medical history as a...

Brought to you by the host of the Medical Mnemonist Podcast, co-host to the InsideTheBoards Podcast, and co-author of Read This Before Medical School: How to Study Smarter and Live Better While Excelling in Class and on your USMLE or COMLEX Board Exams, this show will bring you interviews from medical educators in the clinical sciences.Wondering how to ask for Letters of Recommendation or how to best prepare for an upcoming clinical experience? This show will prepare you for your upcoming...