The CMDA Student Pulse Podcast

by Christian Medical & Dental Associations® Join John Bayon, Detroit Area Director, Mitzi Roberts, San Antonio Area Director and Corey Whittaker, Triangle NC Area Director join Mike Chupp, CMDA CEO, for an encouraging conversation about the encouraging and challenging ministry to healthcare trainees and professionals in their local areas.

by Christian Medical & Dental Associations® How hard is it, really, to follow Christ in medicine today? In this episode, Corey Whittaker — who walks alongside students, residents, and physicians across Raleigh-Durham — gives an unusually honest answer. He names the pressures bearing down on Christian trainees, from moral injury to conscience protections, and tells the truth about the consequences he’s seeing play out. But this isn’t a conversation about despair; it’s about what’s actually working to keep faithful clinicians standing. Tune in for an encouraging, clear-eyed look at faith on the front lines of healthcare.

by Christian Medical & Dental Associations® If God is good and God is provident, why do children die? It’s the question every parent in a pediatric ICU eventually asks — and the one Dr. Dan Falco has spent twenty-five years sitting with rather than answering. In this conversation he makes an unusual claim: that even when a situation seems to argue against God’s goodness, He is still good, still present, still at work. We talk about the stories that nearly broke that conviction, what it means to seek God’s presence in real time, and how students can prepare before their own storm arrives.

by Christian Medical & Dental Associations® What happens to your soul when the systems that train you run on efficiency, measurement, and output? Artist and author Bette Dickinson joins host Bill Reichart for a rich and unhurried conversation about spiritual flourishing in a productivity-driven culture — and why the vineyard, not the factory floor, is a far truer image of how God forms us. Bette unpacks the vital difference between bearing fruit and truly flourishing, examines how medical training quietly reshapes our image of God, and offers a life-giving alternative for the student, resident, or healthcare professional who feels like their formation has been hijacked by metrics. Whether you’re running on empty or just sensing that something deeper is missing, this conversation is an invitation to receive the long, patient work of the Vinedresser.

by Christian Medical & Dental Associations® In this CMDA Student Pulse Podcast conversation, Davis Melin sits down with host Bill Reichart to talk about what leadership looks like when you are still in training and don’t yet have the title, experience, or authority you wish you had. Davis shares how trainees can lead from the middle of the team by first learning to lead themselves well, by honoring authority without becoming passive, and by speaking truth with grace when something needs to be said. The discussion also gets practical about the pressures of medical training, the challenge of leading up in real time, and why leadership in a clinical setting matters not only for teamwork and patient care, but also for witness and character. It’s a thoughtful, honest conversation for anyone who wants to become the kind of physician-leader others can trust, follow, and genuinely enjoy working with.