{"podcast":{"title":"Dr. Gallagher's Podcast","slug":"dr-gallagher-s-podcast-3360363","podcast_index_feed_id":3360363,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/3b14a948/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://linktr.ee/doctorgallagher","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/9812098/9812098-1670027322034-882e2d3ddbe13.jpg","author":"Brendan Gallagher, DDS","episode_count":2222,"summary":"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome! I’d like to introduce you to my podcast on discussions of dentistry, oral surgery, marketing/branding, mentoring, quotes on positivity and more. It’s a compilation of all the audio of my content and some exclusive, podcast-only stuff for my podcast family :) thank you for joining me here as it means more to me than you know 🙏 👉 Let’s connect on YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok at @doctorgallagher too, just send me a DM on Insta Let’s get this party started 🤙","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T04:17:33.700310+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-gallagher-s-podcast-3360363"},"episode":{"title":"D3 Ruben Mikaelyan @ruben_m_90 - Dose of Dental Podcast #228 x Dr. Gallagher's Podcast","slug":"d3-ruben-mikaelyan-ruben-m-90-dose-of-dental-podcast-228-x-dr-gallagher-s-podcast","published_at":"2026-05-08T17:56:30+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-gallagher-s-podcast-3360363/d3-ruben-mikaelyan-ruben-m-90-dose-of-dental-podcast-228-x-dr-gallagher-s-podcast","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-gallagher-s-podcast-3360363","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/doctorgallagher/episodes/D3-Ruben-Mikaelyan-ruben_m_90---Dose-of-Dental-Podcast-228-x-Dr--Gallaghers-Podcast-e3j3hro","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/3b14a948/podcast/play/119702840/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-8%2F423769532-44100-2-07dc21318234c.mp3","summary":"Top 5 Topics: - Crushing the CBSE: The Ultimate High-Score Study Strategy - How to Dominate Oral Surgery Residency Applications - Anki vs Question Banks: The Brutal Truth About Scoring 260+ on Step 1 / CBSE - Waking Up at 3:30AM & Still Crush Dental School + Full-Time Work - Oral Surgery Mentorship Culture In Dental School That Creates Legends Quotes & Wisdom: “If I had to delete everything and boil it down to just the bare minimum, I would say yes, doing questions in a question bank. Nothing’s going to beat that.” — Ruben (highest-yield CBSE advice) “Doing Anki increases your chances of [an insane score]. Not necessary, but I think increases your chances.” — Ruben (on going for top scores) “It really is an arms race right now of resources … whoever’s utilizing the most diverse set of resources is going to essentially eventually find the resources that work best for them.” — Ruben (on modern studying) “I would just encourage everyone to be open to mentoring the underclassmen and be genuine about it … check in on them every month and a half.” — Ruben (building mentorship culture) “I would extern at the reach programs … There is a little strategy game to the externships.” — Brendan (smart externship strategy) “You want to rank in terms of your interests, every time … Go with your gut feeling, your intuition overall.” — Brendan (match ranking wisdom) “If you know that you wanna go into oral surgery, in my opinion, you can start studying for the CBSE whenever you want … Get excited. It’s going to be a long journey in front of you.” — Ruben (advice to pre-dents) “Just start with some cookie cutter thing for your personal statement. Get some “word vomit” onto the pages early - It’s going to be a marathon to write your PS, not a sprint.” — Brendan (personal statement…","meta_description":"Top 5 Topics: - Crushing the CBSE: The Ultimate High-Score Study Strategy - How to Dominate Oral Surgery Residency Applications - Anki vs Question Banks:…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3394,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dr-gallagher-s-podcast-3360363/episodes/d3-ruben-mikaelyan-ruben-m-90-dose-of-dental-podcast-228-x-dr-gallagher-s-podcast/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-gallagher-s-podcast-3360363/d3-ruben-mikaelyan-ruben-m-90-dose-of-dental-podcast-228-x-dr-gallagher-s-podcast.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}