16 episodes
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Weekly podcast hosted by Josh Herigon and Jason Newland about the role of technology and social media in medicine, medical education, medical research, patient safety, and other related topics.
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016: Agree to Disagree
In this episode, Josh follows up on his approach to evaluating residencies. He talks about looking at board pass rates and the tricky proposition of asking about accreditation status. Then, Jason and Josh then get into a snarky blog post Josh wrote about a recent study evaluating the value of infectious diseases doctors.
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015: Agricultural Use of Antibiotics and Evaluating Residencies
In this episode, Josh and Jason do a remote episode and discuss the CDC's recent report on antimicrobial resistance. Josh then picks Jason's brain about how best to evaluate a residency. Jason is not very helpful (only because it's difficult to evaluate a residency program).
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014: I'm on a Guideline Committee and It's a Disaster
Josh and Jason talk about clinical practice guidelines. They discuss the role of guidelines, difficulties developing them, their length, standards, and design factors.
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013: Board Exams and Becoming Better Physicians
Josh and Jason discuss taking the second part of board exams for medical students (USMLE Step 2), the new maintenance of certification program from the American Board of Pediatrics, the complex payment system based on RVUs (relative value units), and how we measure and improve our performance as clinicians.
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012: You Can't Wear That In Here
After a short hiatus, Josh and Jason return this week to discuss the surgical rotation for medical students, the release of their iPhone app for clinical practice guidelines, and aseptic hand techniques in surgery and the clinics.
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011: Permission to Change Your Mind
In this week's brief episode, Josh and Jason tackle antibiotic use in agriculture, TEDMED and the smartphone physical, and touch on physical diagnosis.