Becker Medical Library BeckerGuides - Medical Podcasts

About Podcasts

Most podcasts are distributed as RSS feeds, though many web sites also offer direct download or streaming of their audio content. In order to subscribe to a podcast, you must install an aggregator or pod receiving software that allows you to receive and download files. Most aggregators are free. Popular aggregators include:

The aggregator is usually an always-on program that starts when your computer is started and runs in the background. It checks for feeds at specified intervals (such as every 6 or 12 hours) and downloads new or substantially changed feed data. The downloaded audio files can be played, replayed, or saved like any other computer file. Some applications (such as mypodder) automatically download episodes to your portable MP3 player.

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Medical Podcasts

Sites that offer podcasts for health professionals:

ACC Conversations with Experts
Twenty-minute discussions between leading experts in cardiology. Produced by the American College of Cardiology.
Annals of Internal Medicine
Issue highlights and interviews from the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Audio Medica - Medical Audio News Interviews and Podcasts
Audio Medica collects breaking news in clinical science and medicine for doctors and medical professionals and presents interviews with leading specialists presenting new findings from clinical trials at the top conferences all over the world.
BioMed Radio Weekly Podcast
BioMed Radio is the weekly radio service from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. All episodes are available for free download as podcasts in the iTunes Store.
Cancer Connection
Produced by the Siteman Cancer Center (at Barnes Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine), Cancer Connection allows listeners to keep up with the latest information about cancer prevention, treatment and research.
Cochrane Collaboration
Podcasts from the Cochrane Library - audio summaries of selected reviews from the Cochrane Library
CTisus - Computed Tomography Vodcast/Podcast
"CI is us" is a web site created and maintained by the Advanced Medical Imaging Laboratory (AMIL), a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to research, education and the advancement of patient care using medical imaging.
FDA Patient Safety News
FDA Patient Safety News is a televised series for health care personnel, carried on satellite broadcast networks aimed at hospitals and other medical facilities across the country.
Healthcare 411
Weekly audio and video podcasts featuring news and information on current health care topics with synopses of AHRQ's latest research findings.
Johns Hopkins University Podcasts
Johns Hopkins Medicine weekly health podcast features a discussion of the week's medical news.
Journal of the American Medical Association Audio Commentary
Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief of JAMA, summarizes and comments on the week's issue.
McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine Weekly Podcasts
Weekly podcast from McGraw-Hill's online medical resource, AccessMedicine.
MedicineNet
Medical podcasts that include commentary from MedicineNet doctors on current health news related to medicine, doctors views, tips and suggestions, and current medical research.
Nature
Nature publishes a free audio show each week featuring highlighted content from the week's edition of Nature.
New England Journal of Medicine
New England Journal of Medicine presents 2 podcasts: NEJM This Week and Audio Interviews.
New York University School of Medicine
"As Seen From Here," an ophthalmology podcast featuring interviews with recent authors of articles in ophthalmology journals.
OR-Live Video Podcasts
OR-Live is an internet broadcasting company that provides surgical videos. Live and on-demand webcasts are available.
Science Podcast
A weekly podcast from the journal Science takes you on a tour of some interesting stories in the journal and on its sister sites.
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) iCritical Care
Features interviews with authors from Critical Care Medicine, Critical Connections, and Pediatric Critical Care, as well as members of the SCCM leadership and critical care community.
SoundPractice.Net
Podcasts include articles extracted from The Journal of Medical Practice Management on a variety of topics important to the medical practice manager and interviews with health leaders and others involved in the American health care system.
STAT! The Podcast of Clinical Neurology News
Weekly medical podcasts produced by Elsevier's International Medical News Group (IMNG), with sole advertising sponsorship provided by Ortho-McNeil Neurologics.