UBC Medicine Learning Network
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Inspired by the American Undifferentiated Medical Student Podcast with a Canadian context, UBC Faculty of Medicine learners sit down with various physicians to learn more about their specialties and help learners across the country navigate their medical careers. Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast platforms. New episodes the last Monday of each month.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
MEDamorphosis makes medical training decisions clearer through candid career interviews and practical instruction shaped around the realities of medical school.
MEDamorphosis Podcast turns medical career planning into practical conversation. Physician interviews trace routes into medicine, specialty decisions, clerkship, residency, and the realities of particular training environments.
A nephrologist makes you weigh your residency application against 40 years of work.
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A grounded look at AI in healthcare that stays close to emergency decisions and routine practice.
Dr. Kendall Ho treats AI in healthcare as a practical tool, not a slogan. The strongest parts are the examples that stay close to real emergency decisions, like chest pain at 3 a.m. and a four-month-old with fever and vomiting on a Friday night.
A clear look at intensive care as coordinated, human medicine.
The episode makes intensive care feel concrete: Dr. Mitzi Khan walks through what an intensivist does, how ICU care depends on coordination, and why families matter when patients cannot speak for themselves.
A grounded look at rural anesthesia, pain work, and the weight of long call shifts.
The episode follows Dr. Darren Jakovec from a biology degree at Simon Fraser University into GP anesthesia in Smithers, BC, with work that also touches emergency medicine, surgical care, and complex pain management.
A grounded radiology career review that balances lifestyle, training, and the realities of the work.
This review gives a clear, grounded look at radiology as it is actually practiced: image reading, procedures, training, and how the specialty sits inside the rest of medicine.
Practical career advice from a physician who emphasizes fit and long-term enjoyment.
Dr. Gerald DeRosa's conversation stays grounded in career judgment: how a long medical path begins, how specialty choices settle in, and how residency interviews look from the other side.
A plainspoken guide to budgeting, debt, and the TFSA for medical students.
The episode makes a topic medical students often have to sort out alone feel workable, especially around borrowing-heavy incomes, budgeting, and how a TFSA can support debt reduction and a first step toward investing.
A grounded look at rural family medicine training that keeps the path into practice clear.
Residency matching is the hook, but the piece really stays with a new resident describing the move into UBC South Okanagan Family Medicine and the shape of the training itself.
A calm look at choosing pediatrics that stays practical instead of polished.
This piece keeps its focus on Jill Lin's route into pediatrics, and that is where it works best. The move from medical laboratory science and biotechnology into a first-year residency at BC Children's Hospital gives the story a grounded shape, while the advice about shadowing,…
Campus radio from the wrong side of reality.
Campus decisions, Northeast news, and Northeast priorities.
How research culture changes in practice.
Conversations from inside the IT channel.
The conversation begins with a straightforward question: what is an intensivist?
Metamorphosis interviews intensive-care physician and MIT Critical Data leader Leo Anthony-Sely about using artificial intelligence and routinely collected healthcare data to improve medical knowledge and equity.
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This episode from the MEDamorphosis Podcast covers budgeting and tax-free savings accounts (TFSAs) for medical students, emphasizing financial literacy to manage debt and plan for future goals.
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The episode follows a Vancouver radiologist as she explains what radiologists do and how the specialty fits into modern medicine.