Zack Shinar is an Emergency Medicine physician, an international expert on resuscitation and highly sought-after speaker who is launching a new conference called Emerge. This conference is designed to introduce high school students interested in medicine to some of the most amazing things that doctors get to do on a daily basis. We dive into the incredible opportunity this conference provides to help light a fire under the next generation of physicians.

Show Notes

* What is Emerge all about?

* Seizing the narrative around what it’s like to be doctor

* Anticipation about the conference and the clinical content

* Introducing the cerebral, tactile, and psychosocial aspects of being a doctor

* The close-knit nature of medicine and getting to enter this community

* The diversity of medicine and physicians

* The future for Emerge and #beadocinadecade

* Shaking off sense of malaise around being a doctor

* How Mark and Zack made the decision to become a doctor

* Establishing a marketplace of ideas

* Helping to access and launch the next generation of doctors

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