Medical Podcasts List
Here is the list of medical podcasts I have compiled so far.
http://www.kraftylibrarian.com/podcasts.doc***Warning Old File from Feb. 2006***
******Link for Updated File as of 3/28/06 is below*******
http://www.kraftylibrarian.com/podcasts2.doc
As the list grew it became easier to manage it in a Word file. The list of 34 podcasts are in alphabetic order. Topics range from consumer health to professional medical specialties such as ophthalmology, cardiology, and dental.
The URLs provided usually go directly to the provider's web page, not the RSS feed that you would need to subscribe to that podcast. The reason I chose to list the URLs is that the web page gives you a little more information about the provider, types of programs, and it has the RSS feed. There are a few programs in which I could only find the RSS feed instead of the provider's URL.
I provided special notes about some programs that had unique characteristics, circumstances, offers video podcasts, offers CME, etc.
It is interesting to see that there are already four sites offering video podcasts. For example CVMD.org consumer videos is that they are on specific surgical procedures and would be used to educate the patient about an upcoming or potential surgical treatment.
One of the problems I had (which I have mentioned on this blog) is that there is no main resource listing medical podcasts. You have to do a lot of web searching and a lot of sifting through iTunes. This led to another problem, which was authority and who was producing the programs. In some instances it was very easy to find out who was responsible for the programming, but in other cases it took some investigating. The most difficult were the consumer health podcasts. I know I don't have a list that comes close to representing the amount of consumer health podcasts available. However, with scant information available at some sites it became difficult to determine if I was listing a legitimate consumer information podcast or a Kevin Trudeau look-a-like.
I hope this list of podcasts is helpful. I have sifted through a lot of web sites, lists, and iTunes programs. Please feel free to suggest any that I am missing. As this list grows it may be necessary to create two lists: those for consumers and those for medical professionals.
15 Comments:
This is EXCELLENT - I know I will use it heaps. Can I suggest you put a header and footer on the document, so you're identified as the author? You should get all the kudos you richly deserve!
Gillian
librarianlooseonthewebbutnotpostingrecently
Thanks, will do :)
Very nice work, indeed. Congratulations.
This was a lot of work. Thank you very much.
I have a suggested addition: my podcast, Cricoid Pressure which is associated with the GeekNurse blog.
Nice work!
Dentalcast is produced by
David Dodell, DMD
a dentist in practice in Scottsdale, AZ
This is an excellent list. I'm going to post it for my medical students. Many thanks.
This one might be a useful website one day: http://www.gastrofiles.com is another site with gastroenterology and hepatology audio and video podcasts. It looks like a brand new project with big ambitions.
Great work. The following site is an excellent anaesthetic resource with free podcasts and easy subscription for those with itunes.
http://www.anesthesiapodcast.com/Podcast%20Homepage/Welcome%20to%20the%20Anesthesia%20Podcast%20!.html
Both links to the Word documents seem to be broken this morning (12/20/2006). Thanks.
Is the document still there? My link does not work.
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1/5/07
Your link to your collection of podcasts is dead
Oh, no, this sounded wonderful but the links don't work!
I would really like this list. Anyway to get it?
deenpac at the hottest mail dot com
please reply soon.
This list is obviously both welcomed and needed by this community, as evidenced by the many well-deserved compliments.
Might I suggest that the content be made more accessible than the Word doc? While there are already several good repositories of podcasts (i.e. iTunes and Yahoo!Podcasts), I believe that the value of this list comes from the selectiveness and the comments provided each one. One way of retaining this feature is to use a Web-based sharing service, like del.icio.us.
Here is an example using the entries from the "A's" from your list: http://del.icio.us/kharke/podcasts . I used a standard set of tags based largely on your own metadata (format, topic, audience).
This method could make it easier not only to maintain, but also to share with others by using the del.icio.us tools and API (links to tag combinations [podcasts+cme], linkrolls, tag clouds, etc.).
Karen R. Harker, MLS
UT Southwestern Medical Center Library
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