Hi! I’m Simon Liebling, MD.
I am a physician in Philadelphia. As someone who has always been interested in education, I was drawn to medicine by the knowledge that becoming a doctor would allow me to be deeply involved in educational work. Since starting my career, I have been closely involved in medical education research, design, and implementation.
What I’ve noticed, though, is that most online medical education content falls into one of two categories. The first is full of the (invaluable) resources that teach biomedical content directly—the Pathomas and Sketchys and Boards&Beyonds that dragged us through medical school, the LITFLs and Radiopaedias that saved us on overnight residency shifts, and the sprawling array of podcasts on which I am perpetually behind.
The second category is the foundation of medical education as a professional movement—the journals that publish scholarly-grade research and novel curricula in the vernacular of academia, where the stock in trade consists of needs assessments, IRB applications, pilot projects, and Likert scales.
The Medical Education Resource Gap
What is missing from these two categories is a resource that offers digestible, accessible—and above all actionable—approaches to the daily practice of medical education. Just as sites like the IBCC have spared many a bleary-eyed doctor from the burden of repeating a primary literature search when minutes are in scant supply, my goal is to create a repository of posts that synthesize existing research and frontline experience into a just-in-time toolkit for teachers. Need ideas about how to work with your intern on tighten up their notewriting or how to help your medical students become more efficient prerounders? My hope is to use this space to share answers to those questions and more.
Along the way, we’ll allow for some digressions into medical history and the culture of academic medicine. Thanks in advance for indulging me.
You can find me on Instagram, Bluesky, Threads, and X. You can also find my research work at ORCID and Google Scholar.
