About this Podcast:
PDs @ SEA is a conversation series created for anesthesiology residency leaders, faculty, and trainees who want an honest look into the evolving world of anesthesia education. The show features Residency Program Directors from across the country discussing the decisions, challenges, and real-world considerations behind recruiting, training, and supporting residents. Hosts Bryan and Marianne draw from their own experiences while inviting colleagues to reflect on practical issues such as changes to the interview and application process, transitions in leadership, and shifting expectations in graduate medical education. Each episode offers candid dialogue, shared lessons, and the sense of community that many program directors look for but often find difficult to access in day-to-day work. The series includes in-depth conversations with current and former residency leaders, members of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Medical Student Component,
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What is PDs @ SEA about?
PDs @ SEA is a conversation series created for anesthesiology residency leaders, faculty, and trainees who want an honest look into the evolving world of anesthesia education. The show features Residency Program Directors from across the country discussing the decisions, challenges, and real-world considerations behind recruiting, training, and supporting residents.
What has PDs @ SEA covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Bryan Mahoney with Carol Diachun MD Season 2 Episode 7" (15 October 2026, 42 minutes), "Match Day Reflections: What This Year Taught Program Directors" (19 April 2026, 38 minutes), and "Global health Opportunities in Anesthesia" (27 March 2026, 30 minutes).
How often does PDs @ SEA publish?
PDs @ SEA publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 42 minutes across 17 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on PDs @ SEA?
Booking probability for PDs @ SEA is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. PDs @ SEA requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. PDs @ SEA's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch PDs @ SEA?
The strongest fits for PDs @ SEA are Universities & Colleges and Doctors & Physicians. PDs @ SEA has an education audience.
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PDs @ SEA is an education podcast with 17 episodes published.
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PDs @ SEA
Match Day Reflections: What This Year Taught Program Directors
Apr 19, 202638 minS0<p><b>Episode Summary</b></p><p>Residency recruitment is often discussed in terms of outcomes, match rates, fill rates, and competitiveness. Less often is it examined as a continuous, year-round process shaped by...
Episode #13
Global health Opportunities in Anesthesia
Mar 27, 202630 minS1<p>Jo Davies, MBBS, FRCA,</p><p>Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington,</p><p>Director of the Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA) and Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO) Traveling...
Episode #3
Early Exposure, Better Advice: Medical Student Education and the Future of Anesthesiology
Feb 3, 202638 minS2<p>Medical student education in anesthesiology is often treated as peripheral to residency leadership. Less often is it examined as a strategic lever for recruitment, advising quality, and the long-term health of the...
Episode #2
Everything You Wanted to Know About Being a Program Director
Dec 20, 202540 minS2<p>Program directorship is often framed as an administrative role or temporary leadership assignment. Less often is it examined as a structurally vulnerable position, balancing the needs of residents, faculty...
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Episode #1
A New Co-Host and a New Era in Residency Recruitment
Nov 7, 202532 minS2<p>This episode marks a major milestone for PDs @ SEA. We celebrate our tenth episode and welcome our new co-host, <b>Dr. Marianne Chen</b>, Residency Program Director at Stanford. Marianne joins host<b> Dr. Bryan...
Episode #10
Passing the Torch: How a Residency Survives (and Grows) Through Leadership Change
Nov 7, 202524 minS1<p>In this episode of PDs at SEA, Dr. David Stahl reconnects with two former colleagues from The Ohio State University to reflect on what happens when leadership changes hands in a residency program. Dr. Amy Bauman, now...
Episode #8
The Questions Students Are Asking Us: A Conversation With the ASA Medical Student Community
Nov 7, 202528 minS1<p>In this episode of PDs @ SEA, we sit down with student doctor and ASA Medical Student Component Senior Advisor, Tiffy Kung, to review the most commonly asked questions from medical students preparing to apply into...
Episode #9
The Truth About Signaling, Letters of Intent, and The Match: A PD’s Unfiltered Guide
Nov 7, 202528 minS1<p>In this conversation, Dr. Brian Mahoney sits down to speak directly to the concerns and confusion many applicants experience during the residency match process. The discussion focuses on how the signaling system is...
Episode #5
Why Residency Leadership is Burning Out (And Why It Still Matters)
Nov 7, 20252h 23mS1<p>In this conversation, Dr. Bryan Mahoney speaks with Dr. Stacy Fairbanks about her journey through anesthesiology training, medical education leadership, and her recent transition out of the residency program director...
Episode #6
How to Build a Program Residents Want to Stay In
Nov 7, 202543 minS1<p>In this episode of PDs @ SEA, newly appointed residency program director Dr. Erik Romanelli sits down with his mentor’s mentor, Dr. Adam Levine of Mount Sinai, who has led his residency program for nearly three...
Episode #7
The Signal Reality Check: What Actually Determined Interview Invites This Year
Nov 7, 202528 minS1<p>In this episode of PDs @ SEA, we sit down at the end of the interview season to compare what program directors actually experienced under the expanded signaling system. With both programs having wrapped interviews...
Episode #4
So the Applications Just Dropped: How Program Directors Actually Read Them
Nov 7, 202513 minS1<p>On application release day, Drs. Bryan Mahoney and David Stahl sit down for an unscripted conversation about what they are seeing in the first hours of the cycle. With residency applications now open and program...
Episode #3
The Interview Dark Web: What Program Directors Learned from Discord
Nov 7, 202525 minS1<p>In this debrief conversation, Drs. Bryan Mahoney and David Stahl reflect on their interview with Dr. Reid Geisler, former moderator of the national anesthesiology applicant Discord server. They explore how online...
Episode #2
Inside the Anesthesiology Discord: What Applicants Are Saying When We’re Not in the Room
Nov 7, 202529 minS1<p>In this episode, we speak with Dr. Reid Geisler, surgery intern and incoming anesthesiology resident, who served as moderator of the national anesthesiology applicant Discord server. Over two recent application...
Episode #1
Signals, Step 1, and the Search for Fit: A Candid Conversation
Nov 7, 20251h 33mS1<p>In this inaugural episode of the Program Directors at SEA podcast, hosts Dr. Brian Mahoney and Dr. David Stahl open a candid conversation about the current landscape of anesthesiology residency recruitment. They...
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Dr. Adam Levine
SVP of Corporate Development & Partnerships / CEO of Fireblocks Trust Company, New York Metropolitan Transportation Council
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Brian Mahoney
Senior Director of Government Solutions, Associated Press
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Elizabeth T. Drum
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
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Jo Davies
University of Washington
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