Neurology Nuts and Bolts: Constructing Your Career

About Neurology Nuts and Bolts: Constructing Your Career

Learn about all the things that you wish you were taught about the practice of neurology. The podcast will cover types of careers (academics, private practice, locums, concierge neurology, etc.), contracts and worth, promotional development and CV building, continuing medical education and maintenance of certification, visas, billing, challenges on the job, work/life balance, and more. Creator and Executive Producer: Sara Schaefer; Associate editors: Katherine Fu, Sana Aslam, Sagari Bette, Parneet Grewal, Proleta Datta, Thu Vu, Kim Robeson, Aparna Prabhu Sandeep, Katie Moore; Music: Audrey Nath; Artwork: Shivani Ghoshal

Publisher

Sara Schaefer

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Feb 2022

Latest episode

10 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 75 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   10 Jul 2026

   Arts in Neurology: Dance

   Galina Gheihman interviews movement disorders neurologist Dr. Sushma Kola and neurohospitalist Dr. Alex Pfister about the therapeutic potential of dance in neurology.

2. 

   2 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   GME: Residency Funding

   Host Sara Schaefer interviews Dr. Bryan Carmody about the history, current landscape, and future of GME residency funding in the United States.

3. 

   3 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Types of Careers: Clerkship Director

   Drs. Sara Stern-Nezer and Terrance Lee explore the responsibilities of a clerkship director with Dr. Eshita Shah, illuminating the nuances of medical education leadership in this interview.

Inside a recent episode

GME: Residency Funding

Published 2 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And that subsidy persists to this day as what we call direct GME payments. So DGME, if you hear that term. So those are funds that flow through CMS or Medicare to hospitals that train residents, and they're intended to support The direct costs of training residents, residents' salaries, residents' benefits, the program director's time, whatever administrative supports they need, accreditation infrastructure these days, all those things, those are the direct costs of having residents. All right. And then there are some additional kind of legs of this that came back or came on in the subsequent decades, right? […]

Who has been a guest on Neurology Nuts and Bolts: Constructing Your Career

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Sushma Kola
• Alex Pfister
• Dr Eshita Shah
• Lyell Jones

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

22 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 31 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

28

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85