How We Scaled a New Way to Teach Medicine To After Graduating Residency
How Distributed Mentorship is reshaping postgraduate medical education for the digital age—starting with menopause care, and scaling far beyond.
Honestly, when I started teaching menopause care, I didn’t think I was inventing anything. I was just trying to fix a very specific, very urgent problem: there weren’t enough clinicians who knew how to treat women in midlife.
It felt like every week in my clinic, I was hearing the same thing from my patients: Why didn’t anyone tell me this was perimenopause? Why did I go to three doctors before someone mentioned hormones? Why did I think I was going crazy?
And in the meantime, I was also getting flooded with messages from other providers: Can you teach me what you know?
So I started teaching. On Zoom. In group chats. On my podcast. On Instagram. On TikTok. I didn’t realize it at first, but there was a system forming in the way I was teaching. A new way to teach medicine was taking shape.
Distributed Mentorship: The Model We Didn't Know We Needed
The thing about traditional CME is...it doesn’t work - not really. You read a review article, take a quiz, check the box—and then what? It doesn’t mean you feel ready to treat a single patient differently. And let’s be honest: if CME worked the way it was supposed to, why would I have needed to create menopause courses that was in demand by so many people? Clearly, there’s something missing in how we train after residency.
So after I saw what was working about the way we were teaching at the Academy, I realized we’d created something different for professionals. It’s what I now call Distributed Mentorship.
It means:
Training happens in real time, in real life, not just in lectures or conference calls.
Mentorship happens everywhere: in our private community, in DMs, in comments, in live calls.
Clinicians learn through doing, with actual cases, shared dilemmas, and feedback loops that don’t end with a quiz.
Instead of one fellowship in one city, this is like creating a fellowship that’s everywhere. We’ve got seasoned clinicians mentoring newer ones. We’ve got AI tools helping surface evidence. We’ve got me, slightly over-caffeinated, walking through cases on monthly live sessions.
And the most amazing part? It works. We know, because not only do they share their wins in our community, they demonstrate it by going all-in on HRT management and start entire practices dedicated to this type of care.
What we’re building isn’t just menopause education. It’s a blueprint for how advanced clinical training should work in the digital age: high-touch, expert-led, and always proof-driven.
We’re Meeting a New Kind of Learner
Post-pandemic, clinicians don’t want to fly across the country for a conference just to sit in the back row of a ballroom. They want:
Community
Feedback
Convenience
Case-based learning
And yeah, a little psychological safety, too
This generation of clinicians is smart, skeptical, and not interested in being lectured at. They want immersion and mentorship that feels like a conversation. They want to learn from people actually seeing patients. They want tools they can use today.
And honestly? I do too. That’s why this feels so right.
Dr. Stephanie Faubion from NAMS once said there needs to be a standard curriculum in menopause care. I totally agree. But right now, the energy—the momentum—is here, in these decentralized spaces. We’re not waiting for the textbooks to catch up. We’re figuring it out together.
What This Means for the Future of Medical Education
This model—Distributed Mentorship—might have started with menopause, but it doesn’t have to end here.
We’ve proven you can scale advanced, nuanced, human-centered training across the country (and even internationally) using a blend of live teaching, asynchronous learning, social media, community platforms, and AI. And unlike traditional CME, we actually track what happens after people take the course.
They build menopause clinics.
They treat thousands of patients.
They teach their colleagues.
They tell us this training changed their careers.
It’s not perfect. I still get behind on comments. We’re still iterating on the tech. But the heart of it—mentorship, community, and real-world skill building—is working.
If you’re a clinician who’s felt let down by medical education, or if you’re just wondering if there’s a better way to learn hard things: welcome. This is the model I wish I had. So I made it.
And now, it’s yours too.