Even if you treat hives all the time, chances are you'll learn something totally new and helpful from this month's conversation. Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a discussion from our Urgent Care RAP podcast about the expert treatment of urticaria, with a little pop quiz to get the ball rolling. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.

There is a lot for frontline clinicians to navigate these days when it comes to vaccines. For many of us, old-school diseases that existed only in our medical textbooks or on our Boards are starting to show up in our practices. No matter our work setting, healthcare providers are under more pressure than ever to educate patients about vaccine-preventable illnesses, and to recognize and manage these diseases should they come through our doors.

Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a conversation from a recent 5-part series on vaccine-preventable illnesses that aired on our Peds Reviews and Perspectives and PC Reviews and Perspectives podcasts. Drs. Sol Behar and Micaela Bowers cover polio, Hib, and rotavirus. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.

Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a favorite conversation from our new audio course, In Their Prime: A Geriatrics Audio Course.

In this conversation, renowned geriatrician and bestselling author Dr. Louise Aronson discusses helpful tips and tools for successful visits with older adults, from language we should (and shouldn't) use to the most important questions we can ask to how to honor our patients' agency and life experiences. For more conversations like this one, visit us at hippoed.com/geriatrics-audio.

Medical professionals are being targeted by scam artists in increasingly creative ways. Whether the phone call comes from a local government agency, court system, or medical licensing board, scammers are finding new, convincing ways to stoke panic in clinicians and then access their money. Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a conversation from our Primary Care Reviews and Perspectives podcast with a physician who was targeted in an elaborate scam involving her local medical licensing board. She shares exactly what happened, along with specific tips for all clinicians on how to spot and stop medical scams.

For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.

Gunnar Esiason was two years old when he was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. He spent lots of time in hospitals, and by the time he was in his 20s, he was really sick. His medical team was running out of options.

But then, when Gunnar was 27, he participated in a clinical trial that would change his life. The drug he received as a research participant made all of his cystic fibrosis symptoms disappear in a matter of days. And today, Gunnar is doing great. His Instagram bio actually reads, "Saved by science."

How did this happen? What forces came together to allow this particular clinical trial to happen when it did, and to allow Gunnar to be a part of it?

Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds—an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a live conversation that was held at the 2025 annual Gold Humanism Summit. We'll hear from both Gunnar Esiason as well as Dr. Kathy Reeves, a pediatric hospitalist and the CEO and President of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, about Gunnar's experiences with CF before and after treatment; the story behind the medicine that saved his life; what it's like to be a human research participant; and how clinicians can support and advocate for our patients to access medical breakthroughs. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.

Alpha-gal syndrome has been all over the news as cases are on the rise. Have you ever diagnosed alpha-gal allergy? Would you know what to look for?

Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a conversation from our Primary Care Reviews and Perspectives (RAP) and Urgent Care Reviews and Perspectives (RAP) podcasts on everything front-line clinicians need to know about alpha-gal syndrome – presentation, timing, workup, management, and even lifestyle counseling (think: no more steaks). For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.

Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a short and sweet conversation about the benefit of short and sweet antibiotic courses from our new product, The Right Script: An Antibiotic Stewardship Audio Course. With nearly a third of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in the U.S. considered inappropriate and antibiotic resistance on the rise, it's more important than ever for front-line clinicians to be excellent antibiotic stewards. In this conversation, Dr. Matt DeLaney and Dr. Greg Moran break down why shorter is better in the world of antibiotic prescribing and why this is such a welcome change. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/abx-audio.

Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a very special conversation with the current President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Susan Kressly. With so much mistrust in medicine right now, and so many questions about the new composition of the ACIP and its impact on future availability and affordability of routine vaccines, Hippo Education podcast hosts Dr. Sol Behar and Dr. Neda Frayha interview Dr. Kressly about how to navigate various threats to the public trust in science-based health care. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.

One of the most stressful things a clinician can go through is a medical malpractice lawsuit. And all too often, no one talks about these cases.

Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a conversation from our Urgent Care RAP podcast about a real-life medical malpractice case, so that we can all learn from these tough experiences. We'll peel back the curtain to figure out what happened, what went wrong, and what we could do differently. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.

Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. This month, we're digging into some life-changing strategies to manage pain and anxiety with IUD placement. Dr. Matt Zeitler, a full-spectrum Family Medicine physician and educator at UNC sits down with host Dr. Neda Frayha to explore new recommendations from the CDC, evidence based options for pain and anxiety management, and a toolkit of strategies to make our patients as comfortable as possible. The video demonstrating the tampon + lidocaine hack can be found here. Our blog post with helpful resources and a great table can be found here. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.