More Than A Medical School

Chronic pain and structural issues frequently get masked by reactive prescriptions rather than treated at the biological source. As patients increasingly demand proactive, whole-body wellness over temporary symptom management, understanding the true depth of your medical options has never been more critical. In this episode, Casey Pearce sits down with Dr. Kinsey Cornick, an osteopathic physician...

Residency isn’t the finish line after medical school. It’s the destination you’re training for from the moment you arrive, and the choices you make early can quietly shape what becomes possible later. Casey Pearce sits down with senior career advisor Rebekah Herring to unpack the residency Match process in plain terms, including what the NRMP Match really is, why it functions as a legally binding...

There are two key components to adequately addressing a physician shortage, and they both involve opportunity. First, you have to create medical schools in the geographic areas where you need more doctors to practice, and then you have to open new residency programs for those future doctors, where those new doctors receive their specialty training.  We sit down with Dr Amanda Deel, a family medici...

Med school is hard enough without feeling trapped in one building, one routine, or one social circle. We sit down with three current NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine, Arkansas students, Taylor, Lilly Figgins, and Zariyae Moore, to paint an honest picture of day-to-day life at a medical school located on the Arkansas State University campus in Jonesboro, Arkansas. If you’re comparing osteopathi...

A medical degree can teach you anatomy, pharmacology, and how to pass boards, but it cannot automatically teach you how to change the health of a whole region. That’s the gap we dig into with Dr. Shane Speights, Dean of NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, as we explain what we mean by “More Than A Medical School” and why fit matters as much as prestige for medical sc...

The residency Match can decide your specialty, your city, and the next several years of your life, yet most people only hear rumors about how it works. We sit down with Rebekah Herring, senior career advisor at NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine, to explain the NRMP Match in plain language, including how rank lists become a legally binding contract once the algorithm runs. We also get practical...

Arkansas doesn’t just need more doctors, it needs a stronger pipeline that trains physicians here and keeps them serving Arkansas communities. I sit down with Casey Pierce from NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State to explain why the physician shortage is so urgent, from low physicians-per-capita rankings to a workforce that’s rapidly nearing retirement. We talk about what it take...