Trainees on Social Media (Scrubs Reboot S1E4)

What happens when a medical resident has 550,000 followers? In this episode of The Scrubs Life Podcast — a companion podcast to the medical show Scrubs and its recent Hulu reboot — host Dr. Maheetha Bharadwaj sits down with two doctors on opposite sides of the social-media-in-medicine conversation.This week's guests:Dr. Preston Roche (@PressRowOnline) is a psychiatry resident at UT Health San Antonio, an active-duty Air Force officer, and one of the largest medical creators on social media with over half a million followers. He shares medicine through humor, satire, and storytelling — making medical training relatable to a generation that learns through their phones.Dr. Susan MacDonald, MD is an Associate Professor of Urology and Program Director at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. As someone responsible for evaluating and shaping the next generation of urologists, she brings the program director's perspective to a topic many in academic medicine still aren't sure how to approach.Together with Maheetha, they tackle the questions every modern trainee is asking: What can residents actually post online? Where's the line between professionalism and personality? How does rating culture in medicine — from program evaluations to public review sites — shape how doctors behave both in the hospital and online? And in a world where patients Google their doctors before they meet them, what role should social media play in the future of medical education and trust?🎧 LISTEN ON ALL PLATFORMS Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Amazon Music, and wherever you stream.📺 WATCH THE SCRUBS REBOOT Streaming now on Hulu.📱 FOLLOW US Instagram & TikTok: @thescrubslifepodcastAudio/Video Production by Paul Bogosian