Real MD
by University of Utah School of Medicine
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What is your purpose? The RealMD podcast strives to create a space that helps medical students find and maintain their highest purpose in medicine. These episodes are the daily, weekly reminder you need to keep believing in your purpose.
Episodes
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- The Power of Coaching in Medical Education · 13 minWith LSL just around the corner, we’re sharing two bonus episodes recorded at the 2025 LSL by The Scope podcast. Stay tuned for our next full episode! Coaching in medical…
- A Better Evaluation Starts With Reflection: Benefits for Students and Preceptors · 35 minHow can medical students help their preceptors provide more meaningful, specific evaluations? In this episode of the RealMD Podcast, guest host Rachel Bonnet, Director of the…
- The Sacred Ordinary - Fall Storytelling · 1 h 27 min · Season 7 Episode 5This episode features a recording from our Fall Storytelling Night, centered on the theme The Sacred Ordinary. The Sacred Ordinary explores how meaning in life is often found in…
- Giving Yourself Permission to Change Course | Sarah Fairweather on Finding Your Voice and Pursuing Medicine · 57 min · Season 7 Episode 4What happens when the path you’ve been following no longer feels like your own? In this episode of the RealMD Podcast, Sarah Fairweather shares the long and unexpected journey…
- Designing the Future with Architect Celestia Carson: Vision, Teamwork, and the Architecture of a Life · 41 min · Season 7 Episode 3What can designing a building teach us about designing a life? In this episode of the RealMD Podcast, we sit down with Celestia Carson, principal architect at VCBO Architecture…
- The Long Arc of Becoming a Physician | Doreen Balmer on Medical Education and Qualitative Research · 49 min · Season 7 Episode 2What happens when we stop looking at medical training as a series of individual moments and start looking at the whole journey? Dr. Doreen Balmer joins the RealMD Podcast to…
- Starting Medical School: A Conversation with an Incoming Medical Student Topher Calder · 30 min · Season 7 Episode 1Incoming medical student Topher Calder shares his journey to medical school and reflects on the excitement, uncertainty, and lessons that come with starting this new chapter…
- Brotherly Advice - Scott and Cody Orton · 49 min · Season 6 Episode 19At our medical school, we focus on community building a lot including intergenerational relationships. There is a clear benefit to having relationships with medical students who…
- Pay it Forward - Dr Randy Jensen · 44 min · Season 6 Episode 18Neurosurgeon Randy Jensen has worked at the U of U for 28 years. Because so many mentors came out of the wood work to help him navigate his career, he has carved out substantial…
- Be Thankful - Taylor Stewart · 1 h 2 min · Season 6 Episode 17It is hard to believe that Taylor Stewart is starting his third year of medical school. It seems like just yesterday he was starting medical school. In this episode we have a…
- Spring Storytelling 2026 · 46 min · Season 6 Episode 16This episode features a recording from our Spring Storytelling Night, centered on the theme Tradition: "Stories of rituals: inherited, invented, and interrupted. Of finding…
- Bonus Episode: Building Relationships Through Student Coaching · 21 minThis week, we’re sharing a special bonus episode featuring a conversation from Scope Radio with Dr. Tom Hurtado, Director of Student Affairs. Joined by medical students Noah…
- You Are Here For a Reason, For a Purpose - Sheherya Ali · 47 min · Season 6 Episode 15Today on the RealMD Podcast we are joined by Sheherya Ali, a second year MD/MPH student at the University of Texas, Medical Branch at Galveston. In this episode, Sheherya shares…
- Be Curious - Sarah P Part 2 · 47 min · Season 6 Episode 14This is part II of my conversation with third year medical student, Sarah Petelinsek. Her journey into research was organic, based on her own interests and unique background…
- Believe in Yourself - TW Jones · 41 min · Season 6 Episode 13TW Jones is a Pediatric Infectious Diseases attending at the U of U. He was recommended to be guest on this episode so I really didn’t know what to expect. Which makes the…
- Meet Patients Where They Are - Dr David Sandweiss and Abel Chavez · 38 min · Season 6 Episode 12The Tribal Rural and Underserved or TRU program was created to help students see that value of being immersed in the tribal and rural space both from a standpoint of future…
- Curiosity Builds a Team · 44 min · Season 6 Episode 10In Healthcare, most of the time, you don’t get to choose your team, the patients do. This means the skillset to turn a group of people who have to work together into a high…
- Lean into the Dark - Jordan Broadway · 44 min · Season 6 Episode 10Jordan Broadway (Psychiatrist) helped build RealMD from the early days and we continue to collaborate. In this episode she talks about her career transitions from medical school…
- Bigger Than Yourself - Dr. Richard Ingebretsen & Emma Lester · 36 min · Season 6 Episode 9The daunting task of finding and doing meaningful work is understandably hard to navigate. Often, we impose our own limits about what is possible in a career and what doors are…
- Moving Through Failure - Ivan and Caroline · 57 min · Season 6 Episode 8Caroline and Ivan are second year medical students at Eastern Virginia Medical School and St. Louis University School of Medicine. On today's episode, guest hosts Elise and Poi…
