Online medical education has changed significantly during the last 2-3 years. When I first started lecturing about using Web 2.0 in Medicine in 2005, few members of the audience had ever heard of podcasts and even fewer shared my enthusiasm for them as a medium for continuous medical education. Fast forward 3 years later, and now some doctors wonder if they should even go to a conference if they can just download the podcasts… More and more institutions make their grand rounds and conferences available for free via downloadable audio and video files.
A few examples of useful podcasts for medical education are listed below:
University of Tennessee Internal Medicine Residency Program
Three years of grand rounds and noon conferences of the internal medicine residency program of the University of Tennessee have been recorded and posted as podcasts on this website. You can listen to the podcasts directly or subscribe vai iTunes. The podcasts are searchable by topic. This is probably the most useful and comprehensive podcast resource for residents and medical students. Highly recommended.
The Texas Tech Medcast is a podcast for medical residents, medical students and practicing physicians. It has several series:
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