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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Resident-led cases and evidence checks make the reasoning behind everyday internal medicine decisions clear, practical, and memorable.
Vanderbilt Internal Medicine Residency Podcast turns bedside questions into practical teaching conversations. Residents and guests work through patient histories, differential diagnoses, testing choices, and treatment evidence, showing how clinical reasoning changes when a…
A hot chicken taste test leads into heart-failure mnemonics, if that's your kind of study break.
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A practical reset on when bicarbonate helps, when it buys time, and when the underlying cause still has to do the heavy lifting.
It takes sodium bicarbonate through a careful bedside check, moving from physiology to the practical question of when it helps and when it only buys time. The discussion keeps the focus where it belongs: treat the underlying cause, while bicarbonate may briefly raise pH.
A practical ID session that turns antifungal choices into a bedside framework.
This second half of the Ask an ID Fellow discussion stays grounded in antifungal treatment and keeps coming back to the practical question of what each drug class actually covers.
A useful reset on when an infectious workup helps and when it just adds noise.
Casey Smiley leads an infectious-disease teaching session about a familiar cross-cover problem: what to do when sign-out says to do an infectious workup and treat to source. The guidance is practical and keeps coming back to clinical context.
A commuter-sized reminder that evidence, scope, and hand hygiene still matter more than habit.
This commuter-series episode frames a familiar hospital habit as a plain question of evidence over routine. It stays grounded and readable, pairing taste-test banter with a practical look at contact precautions, MRSA, VRE, and the simple discipline of asking whether a practice…
A resident-led case that makes exposure history feel decisive.
This revived Vanderbilt Internal Medicine podcast follows a resident-led case with a clear point: a careful exposure history can narrow the field before any test result lands.
A practical, case-led look at the clues that make cardiac amyloidosis easy to miss.
This episode walks cardiac amyloidosis through a real case and a clear line of reasoning. It starts with the usual heart failure frame, then picks up the quieter clues: carpal tunnel, spinal stenosis, hip and knee problems, and tendon rupture. The ECG point lands well too.
Medical mechanisms with banter and bite.
Current neurology, tested against clinical practice.
Morning medical evidence, compressed for practice.
Vanderbilt Internal Medicine Residency Podcast episode “S7: E2 Mnemonics in Medicine” centers on practical memory aids for inpatient and outpatient diagnosis, including vitamins for altered mental status, failures for heart failure decompensation, and the five I’s for DKA.
The episode starts with a commuter-series setup and some playful taste-test banter.
Vanderbilt Internal Medicine Residency Podcast’s "S6: E5 Cardiac Amyloidosis" centers on Leonard Chu, a second-year Vanderbilt internal medicine resident applying for cardiology fellowship with an interest in heart failure.
Three second-year Vanderbilt internal medicine residents bring the podcast back with a loose, friendly restart.
Jared and Tara drop the guest format for a bicarbonate session.
The episode picks up with part two of an Ask an ID Fellow conversation and stays centered on antifungal treatment.
Casey Smiley comes back for a brisk, useful infectious-disease teaching session.