“5 Minute Clinic”
American consumer health advocate produces interesting common ailments in simple language. A focus on things our patients can do to prevent illness and disease.
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“American College of American Physicians (ACEP)”
Great updates for those involved in delivery of emergency services in 10-15 minute chunks. Some latest examples would be guidelines for AF, Paracetamol OD, community acquired pneumonia, etc…
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“Australian Family Physician Audio”
An immensely valuable addition to the RACGP’s official journal – Australian Family Physician. Listen to Steve Trumble (editor-in-chief) as he interviews the authors of selected articles in each month’s edition.
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“Discovery Health Channel”
American based but very informative and valuable in understanding the “illnesses” that our patients experience. Well produced.
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“Discovery Health CME”
American based. A panel of experts discussing important health issues on a vodcast.
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“Dr Weil’s Town Hall Meetings”
A practitioner from USA discussing about the new craze – “integrative medicine” and “the healing power of nature”. An interesting alternative view to common conditions we face everyday.
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“Dynamed Weekly update podcasts”
Dynamed is the new system the RACGP is trialing to provide a point-of-care search engine for GPs. This podcast summarises 1 to 5 articles that is most likely to change clinical practice. A very practical podcast.
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“Family Health Radio”
Practical, easy to understand health information in 2.5 minutes. From the osteopaths in the US though. But still quite a nice summary.
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“FDA Patient Safety News”
Vodcast that is aimed primarily at US physicians. The latest in therapeutics and side effects of medical products. Most of the information shared is also relevant to GPs in Australia.
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“General Practice Essentials”
CD magazine produced by RACGP in the form of a radio program. You should normally get this with your AFP issue. Range of interviews on topics that is relevant to GPs.
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"The health report"
Stay up to date with the latest hot topics in health facing Australians produced by the well loved Dr Norman Swan. (Yes, he is the one with the Scottish accent heard on ABC radio). This podcast is a great source of information on not only the medical aspects of disease and illness, but blends in social, scientific and political flavours.
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“Health Care Secrets”
American doctor with public health interests. This is a podcast directed towards the American consumer of healthcare. Some topics may not be relevant but I found this podcast useful for reframing some of the information I give to my patients.
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“Health Minutes”
Dr Norman Swan keeps you up to date with the latest in medical research within 2 minutes.
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“Health Politics”
Discussion about health policy (US), public health issues, research and health care reform. Well produced, very informative podcast.
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“Health update”
New York Times Personal health columnist discusses the latest in health news in 1 minute.
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“Healthbeat Newshour with Jim Lehrer Podcast PBS”
Interviews, background reports, updates on the latest health news. American based.
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“HealthXplorer”
Quality patient education program designed to improve awareness and treatment options for various disease states. 30-40 minutes vodcast. Easy to understand.
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“JAMA: this week’s audio commentary”
Editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association provides a weekly summary of each week’s journal. A useful summary to stay abreast of the latest research in medical research.
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“Johns Hopkins medicine weekly health news”
Entertaining discussion of current medical issues by a professor of medicine at the world famous Johns Hopkins. Directed at health consumers but highly relevant to health providers too.
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“KCRW’s second opinion”
Professor of medicine at UC Davis provides an insightful weekly podcast on medical ethics and medical decision making processes. Worth listening too.
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“Mayo Clinic Medical Edge radio”
Daily one minute health news updates giving bite size information on topical health issues.
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“Mayo Clinic Medical Edge video”
Weekly patient focussed vodcast on the latest medical breakthroughs.
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“Medical minutes”
Another daily one minute health news update on health related news and information by an American physician.
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“Medlineplus: NLM Director’s comments”
Weekly highlights from the National library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and part of US national institute of health. Directed towards health consumers but highly relevant information that doctors need to know too.
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“National Institutes of Health (NIH) Podcast”
The latest research news from the American National Institute of Health. Directed at doctors.
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“NEJM interviews with PDF”
A podcast supplementing the high impact New England Journal of Medicine. If you can’t be bothered reading the NEJM, this is a good podcast to keep you up to date with the latest breakthroughs in medical research.
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“NEJM this week”
Weekly summary of the articles in the New England Journal of Medicine. We don’t have time to read all the major journals. This is a good way to pick up the main ideas from this important journal.
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“NPR your health”
Award winning radio program with a weekly round up of stories about personal health and fitness. Directed towards general public.
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“Sound Medicine”
Interviews of world experts on wide range of current issues in medicine. Forum for discussion on issues affecting local communities. US based but also very relevant to us in Australia.
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“UTHSC Internal Medicine Residency Podcast”
Directed towards internal medicine physicians. Collection of conferences, grand rounds, etc… As GPs are the “new general physicians”, this is worthwhile keeping up to date with the latest in this field.
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“UWTV Health and Medicine”
Vodcast from the University of Washington directed to the health consumer. Very well produced. Worth watching.
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“Vital signs”
Medical “mysteries” written by doctors involved. Not really hard to “work out” the mystery actually. Try to guess the diagnosis before they tell you.
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