UnsCripted Medicine

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Medical school, from inside the training room.

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UnsCripted Medicine brings medical students and educators into candid conversations about training at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Episodes move between practical block review, anatomy teaching, mental wellness, and the emotional pressure of developing physician identities.

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About UnsCripted Medicine

UnsCripted Medicine follows medical education from the hallway level. The show centers University of Cincinnati College of Medicine students as they talk with classmates and educators about training, coursework, rotations, and identity formation. Its episodes are practical without becoming sterile. A reproductive systems review with Dr. Gundler covers anatomy, standardized patients, pelvic exam practice, exam preparation, and the shift toward more integrated teaching. The tone is conversational, but the concerns are real. Students ask how a course is built, how learners should study, and what happens when a curriculum tries something new. Other episodes move away from course logistics and toward the emotional life of training. In the M3 mental health discussion, students describe a year that can feel sharply divided between meaningful patient care and draining clinical demands. They talk about coping, perspective, consult calls, specialty rotations, and the experience of realizing that every rotation forms a different part of a physician. The show gives space to difficulty without making hardship the whole story. It also keeps returning to teaching as a craft. In the anatomy teaching elective conversation, Nick Weissman describes being a fourth-year medical student interested in general surgery, medical education, and dissection. That episode frames anatomy not only as content to learn, but as a place where future physicians practice explaining, guiding, and handling responsibility. Across its episodes, UnsCripted Medicine feels like a record of students learning medicine from the inside out. It pays attention to details that course summaries rarely capture. Exams matter. So do standardized patients, student feedback, mental wellness, clinical perspective, and the strange emotional pace of becoming useful in a hospital. The show is strongest when it lets uncertainty remain visible. Its value comes from hearing students and educators think in public about how training actually works.

Made for: For medical students, pre-med listeners, medical educators, and anyone curious about the daily realities of medical training. It especially suits listeners interested in curriculum, rotations, wellness, and physician identity.

What sets it apart: The show stands apart by pairing student candor with specific curricular detail from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. It treats medical school as a human process, not just a sequence of exams and milestones.

In their own words

Insights and perspectives from UC medical students on life at UCCOM.

Why you'd press play

A chickpea recipe sparks a show-notes detour; your third-year dread gets a hearing too.

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  • to hear classmates admit that the good and awful parts of third year can coexist
  • to hear a doctor push back on the idea that bipolar disorder makes them unfit to practice
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Mental Health in M3Mar 7, 2026

A candid M3 conversation about mental wellness, difficult rotations, and the pressure of becoming a physician.

M3 comes through as a year of pressure and adjustment: hard rotations, tense consult calls, and the uneasy work of becoming a physician while trying to stay well.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Mental Health in M3

    Mira and four classmates at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine talk through mental wellness in M3, from 4 a.m.

    Mar 7, 2026·58m·4 clips
  2. 2

    Direct Primary Care with Dr. Eleanor Glass

    Feb 18, 2026·43m
  3. 3

    Learning From Mistakes: Building a Culture of Psychological Safety

    Feb 8, 2026·33m
  4. 4

    Competency Based Medicine: Rethinking How We Train Doctors

    Jan 21, 2026·28m
  5. 5

    New Year, New Courses & Step 1 Prep Tips

    Jan 7, 2026·23m
  6. 6

    Dissecting Brain, Mind & Behavior (and the Cranial Nerves)

    Jan 3, 2026·16m
  7. 7

    One Last Push: Repro Block Review

    Jan 3, 2026·12m
  8. 8

    You've made it to MSK: Learning Tips to Succeed!

    Oct 21, 2025·25m
  9. 9

    How to Master UCCOM's Renal-Endo Block (& Step 1)

    Oct 14, 2025·31m
  10. 10

    Spikes to Scrubs: A Runner's Journey to Medical School

    Oct 1, 2025·37m
  11. 11

    Cleats to Clinic: A Football Player's Journey to Medical School

    Hidden gem

    Matthew Worden describes leaving Loveland for the University of Chicago, where football practices began around 5 a.m.

    Sep 11, 2025·25m·1 clip
  12. 12

    You're an M2! Cardio-Pulm, Learning tips & Step 1 studying!

    Aug 20, 2025·26m
  13. 13

    Curricular updates for M1, SFOM and Learning Tips!

    Aug 20, 2025·29m
  14. 14

    Season 6 - Crying While Walking: Med School Moments and New Voices

    Hidden gem

    Mira says an hour on the treadmill at 2:30 p.m.

    Aug 4, 2025·46m·2 clips
  15. 15

    Demystifying Addiction: Caring for Patients with Substance Use Disorders

    Jul 14, 2025·40m
  16. 16

    Illness Anxiety in Medical School

    Jun 30, 2025·55m
  17. 17

    Pearls with an M4: Dr. Molly Carroll

    Jun 9, 2025·52m
  18. 18

    Can I Cut This? — Teaching with Tissue

    Medical students discuss the anatomy teaching elective and dissection experience at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

    May 14, 2025·36m
  19. 19

    Navigating Identity and Mental Health in Medicine

    Hidden gem

    Justin Bollock disclosed his suicide attempt to a dialysis patient and told her that things eventually got better.

    Mar 12, 2025·55m·2 clips
  20. 20

    Premedical Series | Nailing your Medical School Interviews

    Feb 6, 2025·50m
  21. 21

    Breastfeeding Medicine Unplugged: From the Experts!

    Jan 2, 2025·1h 5m
  22. 22

    Tackling Ableism in Healthcare

    Oct 14, 2024·38m
  23. 23

    Navigating Long-Distance Relationships in Medical School

    Claire Naviera, Alex Kells, and Luke Buck, medical students at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, describe relationships spanning Illinois, Southeast Georgia, and northern Illinois.

    Sep 19, 2024·32m·2 clips
  24. 24

    Street Medicine Part 2: Cincinnati Initiatives

    Jul 29, 2024·29m
  25. 25

    The Future of Medical Education

    Jul 8, 2024·1h 4m
  26. 26

    Pearls with an M4: Dr. Matt Orischak

    Jun 14, 2024·52m
  27. 27

    Street Medicine Part 1: Origins

    May 13, 2024·41m
  28. 28

    In Shock with Dr. Rana Awdish | Practicing Patient-Centered Medicine

    Apr 22, 2024·43m
  29. 29

    Hands, Hobbies, and Hypotheticals

    Apr 1, 2024·54m
  30. 30

    Normalized Deviance in Medicine

    Mar 11, 2024·47m
  31. 31

    Specialty Spotlight: Nephrology

    Jan 29, 2024·47m
  32. 32

    AI and Medicine with NovaCards

    Jan 16, 2024·1h 16m
  33. 33

    Clinical Communication Pearls | Words Matter

    Dec 18, 2023·29m
  34. 34

    Service in Cincy | Cradle Cincinnati

    Dec 5, 2023·38m
  35. 35

    Specialty Spotlight: Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics

    Nov 20, 2023·36m
  36. 36

    Making Time for Your Passions: Rocky Mountain Rescue Group

    Nov 6, 2023·46m
  37. 37

    Goal Setting and Intentionality in Medicine

    Oct 23, 2023·49m
  38. 38

    Urban Health Project (UHP)

    Oct 9, 2023·38m
  39. 39

    UCCOM's Medical Spanish Latino Health Elective (MSLHE)

    Sep 25, 2023·47m
  40. 40

    Season 5 Kickoff — Apple Salad

    Sep 11, 2023·32m
  41. 41

    Premedical Series | The Medical School Application

    Aug 21, 2023·1h 4m
  42. 42

    Transgender Healthcare and Policy

    Jul 31, 2023·50m
  43. 43

    Misinformation in Medicine: Threats to Medical Expertise

    Jun 19, 2023·53m
  44. 44

    Let thy food be thy medicine: Interview with Dr. María Paz Moreno, PhD

    Jun 5, 2023·32m
  45. 45

    Pearls with an M4: Dr. Alex Gillotte

    May 23, 2023·49m
  46. 46

    Pearls with an M4: Dr. Rachel Holloway

    May 8, 2023·52m
  47. 47

    Where are They Now? | Dr. Sarah Gartner

    May 1, 2023·43m
  48. 48

    7 Things We Do As Clinician Educators That Are Actually Harmful To Learners

    Apr 25, 2023·52m
  49. 49

    Health Professions Scholarship Program & The Military Match

    Apr 10, 2023·1h 2m
  50. 50

    Past, Present, and Future | Cadaver Labs

    Mar 13, 2023·34m