E77: The founding story of Geeky Medics - Dr Lewis Potter
The Scrubbed In Show by Peerr
English - March 07, 2021 17:29 - 1 hour - 82.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Business Entrepreneurship Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this week’s episode we are joined by Dr Potter, the founder of Geeky Medics who shares with us his journey from the very beginning. We delve into his passion for enhancing medical education through technology, how he stumbled into a career within medicine having initially wanted to work in the world of IT. We discover some of the challenges he has faced and overcome so far in his life. Lewis shares with us how Geeky Medics was founded, how the initial idea of sharing his medical notes on a blog went to a platform and channel with more than 100 million views supported by an amazing community of MedEd enthusiasts across the world.
Tune in as he gives an honest account of the sacrifices he has made for the platform to flourish and the importance of doing what you truly love and enjoy even if it means taking some years out of training in the grand scheme of things.
This is an amazing episode for everyone who is a big fan of Geeky medics like ourselves to finally hear the story behind it all and the founder himself.
Dr Lewis Potter is the Founder of Geeky Medics, an online medical education platform that enables medical students to learn clinical skills at their convenience through the use of an intuitive website and app. He is a GP trainee and Clinical Entrepreneur Fellow.
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https://geekymedics.com/
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