IVMS Top 10 Medical Education Podcast

1. Marc Imhotep Cray, M.D.
IVMS TOP 10 MEDICAL EDUCATION PODCAST 2011
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Examination's Cognitive Learning Objectives (Steps 1, 2 or 3). Including authoritative reusable
learning object (RLO) integration and scholarly Web Interactive PowerPoint-driven multimedia
shows/PDFs. Comprehensive hypermedia BMS learning outcomes and detailed, content enriched
learning objectives.
Podcasting Comes to Med School Curriculum
http://focus.hms.harvard.edu/2006/012706/med_ed.shtml
Starting on Dec. 1, HMS course lectures became
available for download onto the iPods of students,
faculty, and staff. The lectures are translated into MP3
audio files, which community members can download
after subscribing to the class’s podcast feed. “This is
the first time any medical school, to my knowledge,
has used an iPod as an educational tool to distribute
the entire curriculum,” said John Halamka, HMS
associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center and chief information
officer at HMS.
Student David Stark uses his iPod to review a Human Systems lecture.
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Sixty-eight percent of students have iPods, explained Halamka. “It’s the education device of the
future.” Podcasts are being used by media outlets such as NPR, The New England Journal of
Medicine, and The Boston Globe. Using them for educational purposes, said Halamka, is the obvious
next step.
The podcasts are just one way in which new technologies are being integrated into medical
education. Videos of every course’s lectures are added to MyCourses daily, and word-recognition
software allows users to search every archived lecture for a given word or phrase. This allows
individuals to search across disciplines and courses for segments of lectures that deal specifically
with their area of interest. Results show users exactly what portion of the lecture contains a
discussion of their search term, allowing them to link directly to the relevant section of the video on
their computer or fast-forward to it on their iPod.
To view lecture videos and subscribe to the audio podcast of a course, users can visit MyCourses
and click on “events” under a course in their sidebar (if no course is listed, some can be added
through a search in the “Course list” option). Directions on subscribing to the course’s podcast are
available by clicking on the “RSS podcast” button.
—Rebecca Tinkelman
IMHOTEP VIRTUAL MEDICAL SCHOOL
TOP 10 MEDICAL EDUCATION PODCAST 2011
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Stay up to date on the latest developments in medicine
via medical podcasts. Here are ten sites that have great
medical podcasts and yes they are Free. Use Google
reader or (best of all) play them from IVMS Toolbar to
subscribe to the podcasts. Show your attending you
know little something…
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1. NEJM
2. JAMA
3. AAMC
Tomorrow's Doctors, Tomorrow's Cures series & AspiringDocs.org: Meet
the Experts series By AAMC
iTunes Podcast Description
This series lets you hear from a variety of experts on many of the issues that
matter most to future and current medical students.
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4. Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts
5. American Academy of Family Physicians
6. Nature
7. Scientific American
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8. CDC
9. Medical Education (Audio) By UCTV
To listen to an audio podcast, mouse over the title and click Play. Open iTunes to download and
subscribe to podcasts.
10. Drexel University School of Medicine Podcast
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