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Dr Tisdall Unfiltered is a candid podcast about how doctors actually learn, think, and reason. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, Dr. Philip Tisdall breaks down medicine through applied reasoning and pathophysiology—not memorization.
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Stop Memorizing Everything: How Medical Students Should Actually Learn (opens the original)
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Medical students are asked to learn an extraordinary amount of information—but how much of it actually matters when you are standing in front of a patient? In this episode of Dr. Tisdall Unfiltered, I take on one of the biggest problems in medical education: the “data dump.” Too often, students are handed enormous volumes of basic science information and expected to memorize it without ever being shown why it matters clinically. The result is predictable: anxiety, information overload, short-ter
How to Study Medicine Without Memorizing Everything: Clinical Reasoning, Exams & Anki (opens the original)
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In this episode of Dr Tisdall Unfiltered , I’m sharing a crossover conversation with the Do It Right Podcast , where I sit down with Joshua Leake, co-president of the podcast, along with his classmates Elena and Patricia from William Carey College of Osteopathic Medicine. They bring me the questions medical students are actually wrestling with: how to manage the sheer volume of information in medical school, how to know what matters, and how to move beyond studying for the next exam toward learn
She Went Blind During the MCAT | Shrena Punj on Vasculitis, Medical School & Learning Medicine (opens the original)
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In this episode of Dr. Tisdall Unfiltered , I sit down with first-year MD student Shrena Punj to talk about medical school, clinical reasoning, and what it means to study medicine while living with serious chronic illness. Shrena has been diagnosed with both GPA vasculitis and Takayasu arteritis , giving her an unusual perspective as both a patient and a future physician. We discuss the overwhelming volume of first-year medical education, Anki, learning by drawing, why understanding pathophysiol
Testing Teaches Pathophysiology: Why Medical Tests Matter (opens the original)
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If you understand why a medical test works, you understand something fundamental about the disease you’re testing for. In this episode of Dr. Tisdall Unfiltered , I explore one of the most useful ways I know to learn medicine: using diagnostic testing to teach pathophysiology. Rather than memorizing that a particular test “goes with” a particular disease, I want you to ask: What is this test actually measuring, and why does the disease make it change? I start with myocardial ischemia and troponi
Why Learning Medicine Feels So Hard and How to Study the Right Way (opens the original)
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Why does learning medicine feel so hard, even when you are intelligent, motivated, and putting in hours of work? In this episode of Dr Tisdall Unfiltered, I explain why there are no tricks, shortcuts, or “high-yield” gimmicks that can replace a strong foundation in the basic medical sciences—and why the discomfort of learning is often evidence that real learning is taking place. I break down my formula that performance equals talent × effort × directed effort² and explore the difference between
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