I am taking a class on Multimedia as part of my Master of Educational Technology degree program. This week our assignment was to develop a podcast and I decided to make it EBM related (always make your work count twice). I used Audacity, a free audio editor and recorder, to create the podcast. There was a learning curve but I have it mostly figured out. In the past when I created all my YouTube videos I “lectured” off the top of my head. For this assignment I had to write a script first and read from it. This is much better than ad-libbing. I don’t have an verbal tics (like “uhs”) and my cadence is better.  I suggest if you do any recordings, even about things you know a lot about, make a script and read it.

Medicine Review in a Few will be a podcast series in which I review what I consider important studies in Internal Medicine.  Each episode will review one study and will last less than 10 minutes; hence the “in a few” portion of the title. I think its important to keep information that isn’t interactive and is only processed through one channel fairly short. I personally lose interest and focus with long podcasts. According to data from Stitcher.com the average listener abandons a podcast within 22 minutes.

In Episode 1 I review the ADJUST-PE study. I chose to begin my podcast series with this study because I recently used the information in this study to care for a patient. I wasn’t aware of the findings of this study until one of my residents brought it to my attention.  I plan to only review clinically useful studies and will comment on any methodological limitations of the studies that I think the average clinician wouldn’t recognize or know how that limitation impacts the study findings. I think podcasts are a good medium to review studies.

For now, the podcasts will only be posted here but if I keep up with this endeaver I’ll ultimately try to get them on iTunes.

The image I used above is from splitshire.com and requires no attribution. The music used in my podcast is royalty free from Looperman.com.