On podcasting

FOAMed – Free Online Access Medical Education This includes blogs, tweets (especially tweet chats and tweetorials) and podcasts. Over the past 3 years I became fascinated with podcasts. Originally, I listened to non-medical podcasts – Freakonomics, Lexicon Valley, Revisionist History and the Knowledge Project. I listened to a few medical podcasts, but too many were boring. Over the past 2 years, medical podcasting has emerged as a viable way for me to do my personal continuing education. Until recently, I did not get any CME points, but really did not care. For me continuing education is a reward in itself. In October of 2016, an upstart podcast “The Curbsiders” asked me to be their guest. We recorded two podcasts and that started a wonderful relationship that continues today. The editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine, Christine Laine asked me to consider either doing a blog or a podcast based on the Journal. We discussed various possibilities and finally decided to develop a podcast. Our idea involved highlighting articles from the Annals of Internal Medicine. We settled on doing interviews with either authors or other experts to place the article into clinical context. As I write this post, we have published 10 podcasts and I have recorded another 5. We release 2 each month. The podcast – Annals on Call – has covered a variety of topics. We discuss the articles, but often go beyond the articles. In deciding on a forma...
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