Why we are doing this again
doc.social was built in 2020, when clinical education stopped happening in rooms. The need was real and immediate: clinicians had things to teach and nowhere to teach them. Fifty-two of you answered that, and the result is still here — lectures, courses and a podcast archive built by practising clinicians for practising clinicians.
Then it got hard. Not because the mission stopped mattering, but because contributing cost too much: a recording had to be edited, described, titled, tagged and chased. The friction did what friction does, and the platform slowed down.
That friction is what has just changed. The work that used to sit between a clinician and a published lecture — transcribing it, captioning it, writing the summary, choosing the topics, getting it in front of the people who need it — is work that can now be done for you. Same mission, a fraction of the effort. That is the entire reason to try again.
So we are rebuilding around what doc.social has always been — lectures, podcasts, courses and events — and taking the overhead off the people who make them. Most of the list below moved from the right-hand column to the left in the last two weeks.
What is already here
- 72
- lectures
- 15
- courses
- 52
- clinicians
- 32
- shows
- 5,666
- episodes
- 5,394
- members
Working now
We will go and find your work
You have already given the talks. They are sitting on YouTube, on a conference feed, on a drive somewhere. We collect them, build a proper page for each one — transcript, captions, summary, topics, your name and credentials — and send the finished thing to you. You approve what you want published and ignore the rest; nothing goes live until you say so.
Or send us a link and watch it happen
One URL is enough. The recording comes back transcribed, captioned, summarised and tagged, on a page that reads like something you made deliberately. No editing, no describing, no filling in a form about your own lecture.
Record it here in the first place
Studio is open. Upload the file you already have, or build a talk in the browser and record it there, and it goes into the same pipeline the rest of the catalog came through.
Events, and most of the coordination taken off you
Put a session on the calendar and the chasing is handled — invitations, nudges, tech checks and reminders worked from the event itself, with every message it sends shown to you. Anyone can propose a session; the schedule is at /events.
Somewhere to actually talk
Rooms: specialty rooms that stay open, or a room built around one person dropping in. Not a forum with files and settings pages — one scrolling window where people are talking, on the web and in the app.
Work with the assistant you already use
An open interface, so ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or whatever you have open can publish to doc.social and pull from it on your behalf. The platform stops competing for your attention and starts accepting work from wherever your attention already is.
A daily brief, in five minutes
The Morning Brief reads the day's device approvals, reimbursement rules and trial results for people who already know the field. Faculty contribute to it in text or in their own voice.
The archive is intact
Every lecture, course and episode contributed since 2020 is here, migrated and searchable, with transcripts landing across the podcast catalog.
Being built
Credit for the hour, not just the recording
Every lecture and course already carries an assessment written from what the speaker actually said — which is most of what accredited education is required to have. The remaining distance is a partnership and two pieces of plumbing, and it is worth being precise about which is which.
Read the case for CME on doc.socialGet paid for what you make
A published share of platform revenue goes to the people who make the content, before anyone else is paid, by engagement and nothing else. Sponsors buy reach, not people; the formula does not know or care who sponsored what. The rate, the formula and a simulator are on one page.
See the Creator PoolThe session becomes the lecture
Run an event here and the recording transcribes, captions, summarises and publishes itself into the catalog — one production, a live audience and a permanent page, without anyone shepherding it between the two.
Publish onward, not just here
One recording becomes a page on doc.social and a post on the channels you already use, without you assembling either.
Be found through those same tools
Increasingly the first place a question gets asked is an assistant, not a search box. Our pages are built to be read by both — structured data, clean markup, full transcripts — so that when someone asks about your subject, your work is what the answer is built from.
doc.social on your phone
The catalog, the podcast player and your rooms in an iOS app. Built, and on its way through App Store review.
Where this is going
Make the hour count for something
A talk you give is worth an hour of somebody’s attention. In this profession it should also be worth credit toward the requirement they have to meet anyway — and the odd thing is how close doc.social already is to that. Every lecture and course on here carries a five-question assessment written from what the speaker actually said, with the line of transcript that justifies each answer. Seventy-nine of them exist. That is the expensive half of accredited education, running already, because we built it for a different reason.
What is missing is real and worth naming: doc.social is not an accredited provider, we do not measure how long anyone actually attended, and our quizzes are self-checks rather than graded post-tests. We have written all of it down — what is running, what is a database change, and what needs a partner who has done this before.
Tell us what to build
The people who built this platform should decide what it becomes
The rebuild made choices about what to carry forward and what to leave behind. Some of those choices were made from what looked unused in an eight-year-old database, which is a poor substitute for asking. So this is the asking. It takes a minute, nothing is required, and the answers go straight to the people who decide what gets built — reviewed one by one, then taken to the doc.social leadership team.