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2025 Physician Wellness Retreats | Physician “Burnout” Retreats

Pamela Wible MD

Whether you’re launching your dream clinic, writing your first book, or exploring shamanic healing or magic mushrooms, these retreats are handcrafted to help you heal, grow, and thrive. Sponsorships available for medical students and residents. All health professionals welcomed.

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It's My Eight-Year Blogiversary!

Aspiring Minority Doctor

There were many posts in premedical/medical forum websites written by anonymous individuals who stated that people like myself (single mother, low GPA/MCAT, osteopathic medical school matriculant, etc) could never make it through medical school, pass medical board licensing exams, or match into a competitive specialty like plastic surgery.

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A Decade of Blogging!

Aspiring Minority Doctor

This blog has connected me with so many incredible individuals over the years, and it let me know the importance of sharing our stories. I am grateful for the many people and classmates who helped babysit so that I could make it to the lab and thrive as a medical student. Looking back, it has literally taken a village though!

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

But wait, before you throw out that equianalgesic table, we also invited Dr. Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD extraordinaire who published this amazing book, Demystifying Opioid Conversions , 2nd Ed., Until the second edition of my book, that is. Drew: She updated an equianalgesic table and published that in the second edition of her book.

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

and it has been linked to rising rates of physician depression , doctor suicide , and medical errors. Despite increasing attention to physician wellness , the rates of burnout continue to rise—especially among frontline clinicians, medical students, and residents. The fact is most victims of moral injury struggle on their own.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

First we have Michael Kearney, who’s a palliative and hospice doctor at the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara and author of several books. His latest book is called Becoming Forest A Story of Deep Belonging, and he’s the founder of the Becoming Forest Project. You’re a disgruntled medical student.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

We can train medical students and residents about geriatrics without geriatricians. And our target population of learners is still fellows, but we have medical students and residents and pre-med students and faculty and folks from all over the world join us for these bi-monthly online virtual meetings.