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 …

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 F…

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 …

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 Clin…

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…

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 …

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 …

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 te…

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 R…

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 Ne…

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 | Surveillan…

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 Hum…

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 …

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 e…

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 …

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 MP3By medicine.io