OMT as a Resident

In this episode, Mercede Hess sits down with Dr. Samantha Lease, a third-year family medicine resident who has spent years refining OMT skills while balancing the relentless pace of residency. They discuss how Dr. Lease’s relationship with hands-on medicine has evolved—from early uncertainty to clinical intuition, and from memorizing techniques to truly understanding when and why to use them.

As residency winds down and independent practice approaches, they explore what it means to carry OMT forward into the “real world” of family medicine — what’s stuck, what’s changed, and how hands-on care continues to shape the way they practice, connect, and heal.