#486 Infertility in Clinical Practice: A Primary Care Approach With Dr Brindha Bavan

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science, Higher Education, Education

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Get confident supporting your patients with infertility in primary care! We cover who needs a workup, how to evaluate both partners, and when to refer—plus tips on coding, counseling, and emotional support. Reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Brindha Bavan shares practical insights to empower PCPs on the front lines of fertility care.

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Show Segments

Intro
Case from Kashlak
Definitions of infertility
Male factor infertility evaluation
- History
- Semen analysis
- lifestyle
Female factor infertility evaluation
- Anatomical approach
- Basic testing
- More advanced testing
Unexplained infertility treatment
Success of infertility treatments
Financial impact/advocacy
Oocyte preservation
Outro

Credits

Producer, Writer, Show notes, Cover Art, Infographics: Molly Heublein MD
Hosts: Molly Heublein MD, Era Kryzhanovskaya MD
Reviewer: Emi Okamoto MD
Showrunners: Matthew Watto MD, FACP; Paul Williams MD, FACP
Technical Production: PodPaste
Guest: Brindha Bavan MD

Disclosures

Dr. Brindha Bavan reports no relevant financial disclosures. The Curbsiders report no relevant financial disclosures.

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0:44.4	Welcome back to the curbsiders.
0:48.2	I'm Dr. Molly Hoyblind, joined by my co-host, Dr. Ira Kirshnowskaya.
0:51.9	On today's show, we discuss infertility with our guest, Dr. Brenda Bavin.
0:54.6	Ira, will you remind the audience what we do on our show?
0:55.6	You got it, Molly.
0:57.3	We are at the Internal Medicine podcast.
1:00.9	We use expert interviews to bring you clinical pearls and practice-changing knowledge.
1:04.6	And we have a fantastic conversation with our guest, Dr. Brenda Bovind.
1:12.7	We're covering infertility workup, the definitions, the prevalence, how common is it, and also ways to treat it. And then we had a little bit nudge about fertility preservation and egg freezing. And just as background,
1:18.2	Dr. Brenda Boven went to medical school, residency, did her REI fellowship at Stanford. And she's a
1:24.9	board-certified clinical assistant professor at Stanford in the OB-Gyne
1:29.3	REI division. She does a lot of medical education. She contributes to research as part of studies
1:35.2	working on fertility. And also, she's a member of the Maternal and Child Health Research Institute.
1:40.8	So we are very lucky to have Dr. Bowman as our guest tonight.
1:49.0	And a reminder that this and most episodes are available for CME credit for all health professionals through VCUHealth at curbsiders.vacuhealth.org. So without further ado, let's get to it.
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