Ep 001Karen StuderWe are a sick care system, not a health care system.
52 min · Nov 17, 2026
A podcast about the specialty most doctors have never heard of.
Preventive medicine, explained by the people who built it.
Conversations with the physicians who shaped the field, the jobs it actually leads to, and how to find it before you have committed somewhere else.
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Prev-what?
That is the reaction most of us get when we say what we do. Preventive medicine is a board-certified medical specialty. Its doctors run health departments, shape policy, design the systems that keep populations well, and lead prevention inside hospitals and companies. Almost nobody finds it in time. This show exists to fix that. Three goals, no fluff:
Define the specialty.
We ask the people who built the field to say what it is, in one sentence, on the record.
Show where it works.
Real job titles, real employers, what a week actually looks like.
Reach you in time.
Students and residents who would love this field but never hear about it until they have chosen something else.
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Ep 001 · Nov 17, 2026 · 52 min
Ep 001Karen StuderKaren Studer
We are a sick care system, not a health care system.
Preventive medicine is an umbrella term that encompasses a whole family of specialties.
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How every episode ends
The one-sentence definition
Every guest says what the field is, in one sentence, on the record.
The Denominator
One number that changed how they see their own work.
The handoff
A question left for the next guest, unheard.
Where Preventive Medicine Works
A standing segment and a public board. Every episode surfaces a real role somewhere in the field. The board keeps them all in one place, with the employer's own link.
Roles arrive with episode one.
Know one that belongs here? The board takes submissions.
The newsletter, every other week
The Denominator
Every guest gives us one number that changed how they see their work. Every other week we send you that number, the new episode, and the jobs. Nothing else.
Hosted by Jules Bakhos, MD. A preventive medicine resident who spent years explaining medicine to a large online audience, and then found a specialty nobody had explained to him.
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