Introduction to Full Scope

Lecture Summary

Full scope is a free medical podcast designed to educate those working or training to work in healthcare. The target audience includes physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, medical assistants, therapists of all types, students, administrators, and anyone else working in healthcare. However, anyone willing to listen is encouraged to. Education is something we carry with us wherever we go and it is immediately apparent to anyone we communicate with. 

The writer and voice of Full Scope is Dr. Bill Brandenburg, a Board Certified, Family Medicine physician.  

Bill Practices “full scope” medicine. This means he takes care of adults, children, and obstetric patients both in the acute and chronic care settings.  It also means he provides medical care with no or limited input from specialist providers.  A Full scope practice is often a necessity in rural areas. However many urban providers may also enjoy a broad scope of practice for a variety of different reasons.

As a full scope provider, one must be knowledgeable about all of medicine. As such, Full Scope will attempt to cover topics relating to every field of medicine.  Additionally full scope will cover various topics related to general health, the business of medicine, teamwork, philosophy, and science in general.  

This podcast is designed to make you more knowledgable in the applied science of medicine, improve your clinical judgment, and change the way you think about medicine, society, the environment, and the future of mankind. 

Key Points

1.     Bill Brandenburg is a Medical Doctor. He works as a rural hospitalist. He also owns and operates a outpatient medical clinic Wander Medicine.

2.     Full Scope is a free podcast, which will cover topics related to health and medicine.  It may also cover other topics related to science, business, and philosophy.

3.     The content will be thought provoking and often very controversial. Medicine is bankrupting and killing people. Hard to fix a mess without making things a bit dirtier at the start.

4.     A new episode will be released bi-weekly (approximately). Episodes will typically be 10 – 20 minutes long

5.     Free online medical education has been become a fundamental part of modern medical education.

6.     Thank you so much to the below podcasts. You have done so much for everyone in the medical industry! If you have not been following the below podcasts, strongly consider giving them a listen. Also, consider listening to medical podcasts, which cover content, outside of your scope of practice. Learning from other disciplines will make you much better at your own.

7.     Most medical podcasts currently come from providers working in academic settings. Full Scope comes from a rural community doctor’s point of view. This should provide a new prospective for listeners. 

8.     Every podcast episode will have an accompanying patient oriented blog post on our clinic website, wandermedicine.com, under the “blog” tab.  

9.     If the podcast or the blog are helpful to you or anyone you know, please share them. We want people to use our knowledge to better the world, just as we have been using knowledge from others to do the same for many years.