Medical Podcasts
Guide Editor: Ellen Dubinsky
About Podcasts
Most podcasts are distributed as RSS feeds, though many web sites also offer direct download or streaming of their audio content. In order to subscribe to a podcast, you must install an aggregator or pod receiving software that allows you to receive and download files. Most aggregators are free. Popular aggregators include:
The aggregator is usually an always-on program which starts when your computer is started and runs in the background. It checks for feeds at specified intervals (such as every 6 or 12 hours) and downloads new or substantially changed feed data. The downloaded audio files can be played, replayed or saved like any other computer file. Some applications (such as mypodder) automatically download episodes to your portable MP3 player.
Below is a list of sites that offer medical podcasts for health professionals.
| ACC Conversations with Experts Twenty-minute discussions between leading experts in cardiology. Produced by the American College of Cardiology. |
| Annals of Internal Medicine Issue highlights and interviews from the Annals of Internal Medicine. |
| Audio Medica - Medical Audio News Interviews and Podcasts Audio Medica collects breaking news in clinical science and medicine for doctors and medical professionals and presents interviews with leading specialists presenting new findings from clinical trials at the top conferences all over the world. Categories include oncology, cardiovascular, general medicine, and global health issues. |
| CTisus - Computed Tomography Vodcast/Podcast "CI is us" is a web site created and maintained by the Advanced Medical Imaging Laboratory (AMIL), a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to research, education and the advancement of patient care using medical imaging. AMIL is part of the Department of Radiology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. CTisus offers lectures via vodcasts (video podcasts) that are available through a free subscription - http://www.ctisus.com/podcast/directions.html. |
| FDA Patient Safety News FDA Patient Safety News is a televised series for health care personnel, carried on satellite broadcast networks aimed at hospitals and other medical facilities across the country. It features information on new drugs, biologics and medical devices, on FDA safety notifications and product recalls, and on ways to protect patients when using medical products. The videos are also available as podcasts or viewable online. |
| Healthcare 411 From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services. Weekly audio and video podcasts featuring news and information on current health care topics with synopses of AHRQ's latest research findings. Podcasts range from 2 to 10 minutes in length. Transcripts are also available. |
| Johns Hopkins University PodMed Johns Hopkins Medicine weekly health podcast features a discussion of the week's medical news. This five to seven-minute free program features Rick Lange, M.D., chief of clinical cardiology, and Elizabeth Tracey, director of the Hopkins Health NewsFeed, a radio news service program. To subscribe to the Johns Hopkins Podcast, go to http://feeds.feedburner.com/jhmpodcast. |
| Journal of the American Medical Association Audio Commentary Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief of JAMA, summarizes and comments on the week's issue. |
| McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine Weekly Podcasts Includes feeds such as Harrison's Online Grand Rounds, Harrison's Online Updates, Hurst's the Heart Online Updates, Fitzpatrick's Case of the Month, Schwartz Surgery Online Updates, Williams Obstetrics Online Updates, and Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology Online. |
| MedicineNet Medical podcasts that include commentary from MedicineNet doctors on current health news related to medicine, doctors views, tips and suggestions, and current medical research. |
| Nature Nature publishes a free audio show each week, hosted by Adam Rutherford and Kerri Smith and featuring journalists Geoff Brumfiel and Mike Hopkin. Every show features highlighted content from the week's edition of Nature including interviews with the people behind the science, and in-depth commentary and analysis from journalists covering science around the world. English language transcripts of archived podcasts are also available. |
| New England Journal of Medicine New England Journal of Medicine presents 2 podcasts: NEJM This Week and Audio Interviews. |
| New York University School of Medicine As Seen From Here, an ophthalmology podcast featuring interviews with recent authors of articles in ophthalmology journals. |
| OR-Live Video Podcasts OR-Live is an internet broadcasting company that provides surgical videos. Live and on-demand webcasts are available. |
| Science Podcast A weekly podcast from the journal Science takes you on a tour of some interesting stories in the journal and on its sister sites. |
| Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) iCritical Care Features interviews with authors from Critical Care Medicine, Critical Connections, and Pediatric Critical Care, as well as members of the SCCM leadership and critical care community. |
| SoundPractice.Net Podcasts include articles extracted from The Journal of Medical Practice Management on a variety of topics important to the medical practice manager and interviews with health leaders and others involved in the American health care system. Topics include Financial Management, General Practice Management, Healthcare Policy, Law and Medicine, and Technology. |
| STAT! The Podcast of Clinical Neurology News Weekly medical podcasts produced by Elsevier's International Medical News Group (IMNG), with sole advertising sponsorship provided by Ortho-McNeil Neurologics. |
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