Origin Story & how this works
We finally have it up! Our new website!! Yeah.
MedMechanix is intended for MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS ONLY and should not be used as medical advice or the right answer on your test. This includes Physicians, NPs, PAs, med students of all kinds, basically whoever finds this information useful for their professional lives.
General Goal:
- 1-2 episodes per month
- extra content provided: handouts, reference photos, slides/videos
- help you understand the reasons behind the clinical decisions we make
- give u easy to understand, clinically relevant info to help you in real life medicine
I have divvied up these episodes into categories to make topics easier to find. I did this with students in mind. Below are the categories and their general descriptions.
- Unzipped = the info on BIG topic and understanding the basics of it
- Rant = info that I think is new or cool
- Pharma = specifics on understanding drugs we use
- Next Step = advanced topics w/ cases
- Supratentorial = topics about the mindset, habits, or otherwise in providers
Origin Story:
I have always wanted to teach medicine to those who want to learn it, probably because when I was learning medicine I had such a hard time. Every topic to me was such a struggle and everyone around me seemed to just know things I didn’t. When I see students struggling in the same places I did, it motivated me to seek out teaching opportunities.
However, due to my lack of academic research papers, I was unable to teach at our local medical school and instead was welcomed by the Physician Assistant school and the ER Nurse Practioner graduate program. The students were always so happy to learn and eventually it grew into me wanting to teach more topics than I had time for in the classroom. Hence, MedMechanix was born.
Why (and when) should you use MedMechanix?
I know there are a million other people/programs out there teaching the mechanics of medicine who are smarter, better funded, more entertaining and have more production value than I can provide. However, there are very few that I could find that teach practical day-to-day medicine. Students and school curriculums now focus more and more on passing the national tests, ignoring the practical information that allows us to be good clinicians. I get it, our brain only has so much space. But what happens after the test? What you’ll discover is a vast difference in the right answer to the test and what you need to do in clinical medicine. Real medicine is messy, the commodities and complexity of patients is skyrocketing and none of them come with multiple choice options. Often there are multiple answers, none of which are best and nobody around to tell you if you got it right. It’s a harsh reality to hit with a very high learning curve, and just when we thought we were finally done! Instead of becoming disheartened or feeling lost, I urge you to join a professional society and consider MedMechanix. I want to help fill some of the gap between what is on the test and what you actually need to know.
Who Am I?
I am your local neighborhood emergency room physician with a passion for teaching.
CREDITS
Website, Content, Infographics and Founder: Dr. W Faulconer, DO
Podcast Music by: Juan M Hernandez, RN
Photos by: Katie Campbell