Key Initiatives
Rising Star - The Rising Star Program empowers healthcare professionals to grow as influential voices in advocacy and change. Through three dynamic tracks — Podcasting, Authorship, and Speaking — you'll create powerful content that amplifies your mission. Participants gain access to dedicated intern support, professional exposure, and a growing network of like-minded changemakers. Advance through achievement levels from Apprentice to Master as you complete each track.
Newsletter - Our monthly newsletter is Medicine Forward’s flagship publication — a curated briefing on the ideas, stories, and voices driving change in healthcare. Each edition explores topics like rebuilding trust in medicine, advancing equity, and restoring the humanity of care. Stay informed with thoughtful analysis, community updates, and powerful narratives from across the field. Subscribe now to stay connected and engaged with the work of meaningful healthcare transformation.
Documentary - Suck It Up, Buttercup is a solution-driven documentary exposing the systemic failures of American healthcare — from corporate greed to clinical burnout. Featuring physicians, patients, and leaders, it examines what’s broken, what’s working, and why change is urgent. The film calls for a return to purpose over profit, advocating for safer, more humane care. It’s a powerful tool to raise awareness and drive reform across the system. Executive producers include Medicine Forward board members Todd Otten and MaryAnn Wilbur.
Coaching and Wellbeing Support - In recognition of the significant increase in physician burnout, moral injury, mental health decay, and suicide, resources to support doctors at the individual and collective levels are needed. The Medicine Forward community includes some of the leading physician coaches and wellbeing experts in the country. Meet our coaches.