medicine.io

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. Jason and Josh then get into a snarky blog post Josh wrote about a recent study evaluating the value of infectious diseases doctors. Links for this episode: American Board of Pediatrics | ABP Pass Rates 2010 - 2012 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) ACGME Accreditation Status database ID W...

Dec 28, 2013•28 min

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). Links for this episode: IDWeek 2013 SXSW Eco | Fighting Superbugs on the Farm NY Times | Antibiotic-Resistant Infections Lead to 23,000 Deaths a Year, C.D.C. Finds CDC | Threat Report 2013 - Antimicrobial Resistance KQED | A...

Nov 06, 2013•33 min

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. Links for this episode: Digital Doctor Podcast | Episode #19 - Guideline Apps iTunes | iGuidelines Guideline Central iTunes | Guideline Central Pediatrics | Impact of a guideline on management of children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia IDSA | 52-page clinical practice guideline for community-acquired pneumonia in c...

Oct 08, 2013•35 min

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. Links for this episode: USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills USMLE "Irregular Behavior" USMLE Step 2 CS scoring Wikipedia | Internal Validity Wkipedia | External Validity USMLE | FAQ "How do I interp...

Sep 01, 2013•37 min

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. Links for this episode: Josh's Blog | Worst things to do in surgery as a med student iTunes App Store | iGuidelines The Verge | Apple announces iOS 7, 'biggest change' since the introduction of the iPhone, coming this fall iMedicalApps | How a medical student partnered...

Jun 24, 2013•39 min

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. Links for this episode: house.gov | Rep Waxman to introduce legislation to monitor antibiotic use in animals Food Safety News | Slaughter and Waxman introduce bills to gather more antibiotics in ag White Oak Pastures Twitter | Rock Harper Washington Post | Fat Shorty’s to open Thursday with rattlesnake and elk sausages on the menu house.gov | Sla...

Apr 22, 2013•31 min

010: Resident Work Hours and Generational Spite

Josh and Jason continue to debate solutions for efficient intrahospital communication and dive head-long into the resident work hour restriction controversy. Links for this episode: CNET | Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance qliq MediGram Pebble The Wirecutter | The best smartwatch right now is the Pebble, but honestly, they’re all kind of crummy JAMA Internal Medicine | Effects of the 2011 Duty Hour Reforms on Interns and Their Patients Robert Centor MD | Do shorter work hou...

Apr 08, 2013•47 min

009: The Trans-Atlantic Episode

This week, Josh and Jason join Ed Wallit, Stevan Wing, and Wai Keong Wong from the Digital Doctors podcast to discuss digital literacy among physicians and the growing importance of technology in the practice of medicine. Links for this episode: The Digital Doctors podcast Twitter | @DoctorNatasha NBC Nightly News | Checking in with patients via text KCUR | A Text A Day Keeps The Doctor....In Touch? Cerner Wikipedia | EMIS Escape Fire - The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare Commonwealth Fund |...

Mar 25, 2013•1 hr 25 min

008: Then You Get to Be a Doctor

Josh and Jason delve into the difficulties with work-life balance seemingly inherent in medicine, the moral obligation of a physician to primarily practice medicine, and they briefly touch on the state of healthcare in the United States. Links for this episode: Children's Mercy Hospitals Employee Discovery Series podcast Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare Time | Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us CNN | Nightmare Bacteria Wikipedia | Don Berwick YouTube | 1999 IHI Nat...

Mar 11, 2013•46 min

007: A Patient Is Not a Jeopardy Question

This week, Josh and Jason respond to criticisms that doctors should not learn how to code and discuss IBM's Watson and it's potential impact on medicine. Links for this episode: Code.org Code.org | What most schools don't teach [video] Scratch Code School Treehouse TheraDoc YouTube | IBM Watson Demo - Oncology Diagnosis and Treatment (2 min) CBS News | IBM supercomputer Watson now being offered to doctors to diagnose patients The Economist | Doctor Watson Forbes | IBM's Watson Gets Its First Pie...

Mar 04, 2013•43 min

006: Those Three Guys

Josh and Jason briefly discuss the big events in Kansas City this past week, another IRB issue, even more on secure messaging, and whether or not doctors should learn how to code (as a response to the Digital Doctor podcast this past week ). Links for this episode: NY Times | Gas explosion ignites Kansas City restaurant Kansas City Star | Surveillance video shows JJ's explosion Kansas City Star | JJ’s fundraiser planned for Saturday Doctor Natasha | The Good: a rough week in KC Wikipedia | Meta-...

Feb 25, 2013•40 min

005: Length Is Not The Most Important Thing

Josh and Jason debate the optimal episode length for medicine.io and then dig deep into the juicy issue of Institutional Review Board approval for quality improvement projects. Links for this episode: Wikipedia | Institutional Review Board Wikipedia | Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment US Holocaust Museum | Nazi Medical Experiments Dept of Health and Human Services | Belmont Report Wikipedia | Retrospective Cohort Study Pediatrics | Impact of a Guideline on Management of Children Hospitalized With Com...

Feb 18, 2013•46 min

004: Living The Dream and Bleeping

Jason talks about living the dream in his medical career. Josh goes into too much detail further discussing the security of text messaging but uncovers an interesting aspect of HIPAA and Jason gives an excellent explanation of professionalism and social media. Links for this episode: JAHIMA | HIPAA Compliance for Clinician Texting Apple | Mountain Lion Available in July From Mac App Store Matthew Green | Dear Apple: Please set iMessage free The Digital Doctors | Episode 3 - Bleeps | iTunes link ...

Feb 11, 2013•47 min

003: Secure Messaging and Antibiotic Use

In the third episode of medicine.io, Josh and Jason discuss some feedback from Episode 002, why Josh thinks secure messaging will be a big deal for medicine and the difficulties with written communication. Jason talks about using a podcast to communicate with hospital staff and about the nuts and bolts of antimicrobial stewardship. Links for this episode: Ted Eytan MD app.net The Verge | Ad-free social network App.net moves from Twitter clone to cloud platform Wikipedia | SMS vulnerabilities (te...

Feb 04, 2013•56 min

002: Digital Divides and Paul Levy

This week, Josh and Jason suppress the urge to talk more about themselves and as a follow-up to their appearance with Doctor Natasha on KCUR's "Up to Date" discuss the digital divide in terms of social media and medicine. They also talk about Paul Levy's visit to Children's Mercy and the role empathy and humility play in leadership. Links for this episode: KCUR | A Text A Day Keeps The Doctor....In Touch? Wikipedia | Digital divide Ars Technica | Rural US Internet: not great, but truly poor in t...

Jan 27, 2013•1 hr 8 min

001: The Big Intro

In the inaugural episode, Josh and Jason talk too long about their respective backgrounds, what they are trying to accomplish with this new podcast, and a few ideas about future topics. Please provide feedback via our website and rate us in iTunes ! Download MP3

Jan 21, 2013•42 min

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