
Residency and fellowship are supposed to be about growth and learning—but too often, they’re environments of exploitation.
⏱ 80+ hour weeks with little support
🚩 Harassment, bullying, and silence
💀 Emotional exhaustion and moral injury
💬 Why are we still normalizing trauma as a “rite of passage” in training?
In this episode, we dive deep into the toxic realities of medical training—and how many never make it out the other side.
💡 Training should shape doctors, not break them.
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🎵 Intro Music: Lift Off – Wolf Samuels
🎵 Outro Music: Summer – Twin Signals