The First Cut

What’s This Podcast
About?

The First Cut is back — reimagined and reenergised. Originally launched as a passion project, this new version is hosted by a third-year medical student at the University of Manchester, now with a fresh focus: exploring the unexpected, unconventional, and sometimes overlooked career paths in medicine. From humanitarian fieldwork to forensic pathology, psychedelics research to health tech startups, The First Cut dives into the diverse and sometimes rogue directions a medical degree can take you. Through candid conversations and inspiring stories, it aims to show just how wide the scope of medicine truly is — and what it means to shape your own path in the profession.