A nurse preceptor has just watched a trainee commit a serious error despite hours of lecture, reading, and hands on training. In spite of herself, she starts to heat up, much like the more severe clinical educators who trained her years ago. “Why can’t you just get this right?” An ICU attending asks her resident to call her if a patient’s hematocrit drops under a certain value. Despite this agreement, and despite the patient deteriorating, the resident never calls. “Are you an idiot? Why did ...

Season 2 - Dr. Wendell Glick, a hapless medical school graduate, is abducted by a flying saucer to complete his medical residency at the intergalactic teaching hospital, St. Tetanus Medical Center. Season 1 - Weekly stand-alone humorous short stories for grown-ups, with engaging plots, rich character development, and intelligent dialogue carefully edited out. Enjoy!

This is a monthly podcast designed for healthcare workers looking to sharpen their minds and clinical skills. In each episode, we'll sit down and talk with an active healthcare professional as they reflect on some of their experience and expertise. We'll look to apply what we learn in a way that not only benefits you, but those around you. All specialties and topics are fair game, so come join your host and Simulation Coordinator, Jonathan Marsh, to hear more High-Fidelity Conversations!

Brought to you by ATS Scholar and the ATS Section on Medical Education, the Scholarly podcast features conversations on medical education, discussions with authors published in ATS Scholar, and priceless insight from some of the brightest minds in the field.