JAMAevidence The Rational Clinical Examination

Interviews with authors of Rational Clinical Examination systematic reviews in JAMA about the accuracy of the medical history, physical examination, and laboratory testing for the diagnosis of common medical conditions. JAMAevidence is an evidence-based medicine (EBM) resource created and maintained by JAMA Network to promote the use of EBM to improve patient care.

Rank #1: Does This Patient Have Infectious Mononucleosis? Interview With Dr Christina Minami.
Dr Ed Livingston discusses Does This Patient Have Infectious Mononucleosis? with Dr Christina Minami.

Rank #2: Do Findings on Routine Examination Identify Patients at Risk for Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma? Interview With Dr Delan Jinapriya.
Dr David Simel discusses Do Findings on Routine Examination Identify Patients at Risk for Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma? with Dr Delan Jinapriya.

JAMA Professionalism: Best Practice

From the JAMA Network, this is JAMA Professionalism: Best Practice, the podcast about medical professionalism that examines difficult situations and prepares clinicians for the unexpected challenges of medical practice, with host Edward Livingston, MD.

Rank #1: What to Do When You Suspect a Colleague Is Performing Inappropriate Procedures.
A young clinician notices that every patient she refers to one cardiologist gets cardiac catheterizations--whether they need them or not. How should she deal with this? The podcast features Shiphra Ginsburg, MD, MEd, PhD, from Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto Medicine. Article discussed in this episode: Is There a Conflict of Interest?

Rank #2: Is It Time to Retire?.
Making the decision about when to retire is never easy. Cognitive and technical skills may decline with age, but judgment and the ability to interact with patients improve as physicians gain experience. Physicians also tend to pay little attention to financial concerns and also find themselves unprepared for retirement when the get older. This article addresses concerns regarding self-assessment of clinical skills as well as facilitating action when a clinician observes a colleague whose clinical skills are faltering. The podcast features Barbara Schneidman, MD, MPH, from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology; Bob Hyland, MD, from St Michael's Hospital in Toronto, and Christopher Muth, MD, Fishbein Fellow at JAMA. Learning Objectives: To understand the appropriate longevity of a physician’s career and how they should approach assessing their clinical skills as they age. Article discussed in this episode: Is It Time to Retire?

JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm

From the JAMA Network, this is JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm, the podcast about performance improvement and medicine that aims to elevate the quality of care, one patient at a time, with host Ed Livingston, MD.

Rank #1: Avoiding Wrong-Site Surgery.
There are about 500 wrong-site surgeries performed in the United States every year. Simple maneuvers can minimize the risk for these occurring. This JAMA Performance Improvement podcast reviews a case of wrong-site surgery and discusses potential ways to avoid it. Interviewees include Armando Giuliano, MD, Harry Sax, MD, Kathryn Englehart, MD, and David Baker, MD, from The Joint Commission. Read the article: Wrong-Site Surgery Author Affiliations: Armando Giuliano, MD, Executive Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles Harry C. Sax, MD, Executive Vice Chair, Administration Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles Kathryn Englehart, MD, Research Fellow, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University David Baker, MD, Executive Vice President, Division of Health Care Quality Evaluation, The Joint Commission

Rank #2: Medication Errors in Hospitals–-It’s Everyone’s Fault.
A patient was admitted to the hospital and got three times their normal dose of phenytoin resulting in phenytoin toxicity and a long hospital stay. Analysis of the error revealed problems with hospital organization, supervision issues and having an environment that facilitates errors. Errors don’t occur simply because one clinician makes a mistake—rather they occur because the hospital system fails to prevent them. Related article: Phenytoin Toxicity—A Significant Adverse Drug Event

JAMA Network

Audio Interviews with Authors of articles in the JAMA Network Specialty Journals

Rank #1: JAMA Psychiatry : Recreational Marijuana Legalization and Changes in Marijuana Use and Cannabis Use Disorder, 2008-2016.
Interview with Magdalena Cerda, DrPH, author of Association Between Recreational Marijuana Legalization in the United States and Changes in Marijuana Use and Cannabis Use Disorder From 2008 to 2016

Rank #2: JAMA Internal Medicine : Association of Weight Loss Interventions With Changes in NAFLD Biomarkers.
Interview with Dimitrios A. Koutoukidis, PhD, author of Association of Weight Loss Interventions With Changes in Biomarkers of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

JAMAevidence: Using Evidence to Improve Care

A monthly series of discussions of core issues in evidence-based medicine by leading practitioners in the field. Discussions of core issues in evidenced-based medicine by leading practitioners in the field. Created for JAMAevidence (www.jamaevidence.com), an innovative online resource for using evidence to improve care.

Rank #1: Generalized Anxiety or Panic Disorder: Audio Interview With Sophiya Benjamin.
JAMAevidence Podcast

Rank #2: Dementia: Interview With Dr Tracey Holsinger.
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JAMA Author Interviews

Engaging and topical conversations with authors of research, clinical reviews, and opinion pieces published in JAMA. Subscribe for the latest information, ideas, and innovations in clinical medicine and health policy.

Rank #1: Antibiotic Therapy for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults.
Community acquired pneumonia accounts for 600,000 hospital admissions a year. Many patients with this disease are quite ill and have a very high mortality. To save lives, the appropriate antibiotics should be given in a timely basis, but it is not clear what the best antibiotics are and how long they should be given. In this podcast we interview the author of a JAMA review on community acquired pneumonia, Dr Jonathan Lee, author of Antibiotic Therapy for Adults Hospitalized With Community-Acquired Pneumonia, who performed a systematic review of the literature to determine the best way to treat community acquired pneumonia.

Rank #2: Graves Disease.
Edward H. Livingston, MD discusses Graves disease with David Cooper, MD, author of Management of Graves Disease: A Review

JAMA Cardiology Author Interviews

Interviews with authors of articles from JAMA Cardiology. JAMA Cardiology publishes exceptional original research, state-of-the-art reviews, and informative opinions that advance the science and practice of cardiology, enhance cardiovascular health, and inform health care policy. JAMA Cardiology is the definitive journal for clinical investigators, clinicians, and trainees in cardiovascular medicine worldwide.JAMA Cardiology focuses on all aspects of cardiovascular medicine, including epidemiology and prevention, diagnostic testing, interventional and pharmacologic therapeutics, translational research, health care policy and outcomes, and global health.

Rank #1: Efficacy and Safety of Spironolactone in Acute Heart Failure.
Interview with Javed Butler, MD, MPH, author of Efficacy and Safety of Spironolactone in Acute Heart Failure: The ATHENA-HF Randomized Clinical Trial

Rank #2: Evolution of Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy for Advanced Heart Failure.
Interview with Leslie W. Miller, MD, and Joseph G Rogers, MD, authors of Evolution of Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy for Advanced Heart Failure: A Review

NEJM Resident 360 - The House Podcast

The House reflects medicine’s most pressing issues through the eyes of residents, providing a forum to share their stories from the bedside, where they are learning far more than the lessons of clinical medicine.

Rank #1: Diversity in Residency.
African-American physicians-in-training may be isolated within the walls of their institutions, alienated by their patients, and disconnected from their training programs. Listen to the challenges and aspirations of some inspiring African-American residents in the latest episode of this podcast series.

Rank #2: Resident Burnout.
“The House” is a podcast that reflects medicine’s most pressing issues through the eyes of residents, providing a forum for physicians-in-training to share their stories from the bedside, where they are learning far more than the lessons of clinical medicine.

JAMA Neurology Author Interviews

Interviews with authors of articles from JAMA Neurology. JAMA Neurology is an international peer-reviewed journal for physicians caring for people with neurologic disorders and those interested in the structure and function of the normal and diseased nervous system.

Rank #1: Autoimmune Epilepsy: Clinical Characteristics and Response to Immunotherapy and Autoantibodies in the Patient With Drug-Resistant Epilepsy: Are We Missing a Treatable Etiology?.
Interview with Sean J. Pittock, MD, author of Autoimmune Epilepsy: Clinical Characteristics and Response to Immunotherapy and Gregory K. Bergey, MD author of Autoantibodies in the Patient With Drug-Resistant Epilepsy: Are We Missing a Treatable Etiology?

Rank #2: Diabetes, Glucose Control, and 9-Year Cognitive Decline Among Older Adults Without Dementia.
Interview with Kristine Yaffe, MD, author of Diabetes, Glucose Control, and 9-Year Cognitive Decline Among Older Adults Without Dementia

JAMA Author Readings

Readings by authors of selected articles published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Rank #1: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.
Reading by Joseph Wu, MD, and Kitchener Wilson, MD, author of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Rank #2: US Dietary Guidelines and Lifting the Total Dietary Fat Ban.
Reading by Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPh, author of The 2015 US Dietary Guidelines: Lifting the Ban on Total Dietary Fat

JAMA Cardiology Editors' Summary

Editors' Audio Summary for JAMA Cardiology. Research in medicine, science, & the clinical practice of cardiology. For physicians, researchers, & clinicians.

Rank #1: JAMA Cardiology Editors' Summary: 2016-2-24 Online First.
Editors' Summary by Robert Bonow, MD, Editor in Chief of JAMA Cardiology, for  February 24, 2016, with Deputy Editors Robert Harrington, MD, Marc Sabatine, MD, Clyde Yancy, MD, and Michael Pencina, PhD

JAMA Medical News: Interviews and Summaries

Timely and engaging discussions about advances in clinical research and practice, biomedical science, public health, and health policy.

Rank #1: October Medical News Summary.
Biomarker-Based PTSD Screening, Cardiovascular Corner, Stopping Cancer Screening in Older Adults, Subconcussive Football Hits, Easing Contraceptive Access, Prescription Drug Costs, and More in Medical News.

Rank #2: Researching Nondrug Approaches to Pain Management.
In this Medical News podcast, Jennifer Abbasi interviews Yale University professor Robert Kerns, PhD, about nondrug approaches to pain management and the National Institutes of Health-Department of Defense-Veterans Affairs pain management collaboration. Read the article: Robert Kerns, PhD: Researching Nondrug Approaches to Pain Management

The Intern At Work: Internal Medicine

A pan-Canadian resident for resident Podcast. The Intern at Work is written by residents for residents, and is meant to serve you better on the wards and on call. Disclaimer: This podcast is intended for educational use only and is not intended as the sole resource for clinical management. All scripts are original scripts. Podcasts produced out of Canada and may contain Canadian specific guidelines.Series created by: Alison LaiDeveloped by: Laiya Carayannopoulos, Zahra MeraliOverseen by: Daniel Brandt Vegas

Rank #1: Approach to Anemia.
Anemia made easy! In this episode we talk about the classification of anemia and some of their leading etiologies. We focus on the assessment and treatment of iron deficiency anemia, and talk briefly about the choosing wisely guidelines for transfusion thresholds in anemic patients.

Rank #2: Cellulitis.
What's red, hot and requesting medical attention? In this episode we talk about cellulitis! From patient assessment to learning about it's most common pathogens and treatment, we give you all the basics to see and treat a patient with cellulitis. As a bonus, we've included five important facts about cellulitis to come in our medicine minute.

NEJM Journal Watch Podcasts: Clinical Conversations

Audio podcasts featuring the week’s top medical news plus pertinent interviews

Rank #1: Podcast 240: Overuse of statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular events.
Running time: 23 minutes Paula Byrne set out to understand what the available data tell us about how many people are taking statins for primary prevention — and how much good is it likely doing them? Also, how do you discuss their possible harms and benefits with patients? Links: Paula Byrne and colleagues’ analysis in The BMJ Kausik Ray meta analysis in JAMA Internal  Medicine Kausik Ray 2010 Clinical Conversations interview NEJM Journal Watch General Medicine comparison of statin guidelines

Rank #2: Podcast 239: Talking with veterans.
Running Time: 18 minutes Veterans Day will be here soon, and this episode introduces you to Patrick Tripp, a writer and radiation oncologist. He’s taken conversations with some of his patients and published thumbnail profiles of several in a remarkable essay in the London Review of Books (that’s right, it’s not a medical journal). The patients all happened to be veterans of the war in Vietnam. There are no biomedical insights here — or are there? At the very least, you are reminded that the people in the exam room all have stories to tell, and if you have the luxury of listening to them you may just learn more about their true chief complaint. Patrick Tripp’s London Review of Books essay

Annals of Internal Medicine Podcast

Issue highlights and interviews from Annals of Internal Medicine.

Rank #1: Heart failure.
Cardiac resynchronization therapy; interview with Mariell Jessup, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania; plus a summary of all the issue's articles.

Rank #2: Issue Summary July 17, 2012.
Summary of the July 17, 2012 issue, including articles on the effect of the trans fat ban in New York City, urinary incontinence in young nulligravid women, escitalopram for the prevention of interferon-a-induced depression, postmenopausal hormone therapy for the primary prevention of chronic condition, an Update in rheumatology, and the USPSTF recommendation on prostate cancer screening. The issue also includes commentaries on the Task Force recommendation, Qnexa, and science-based training in patient safety and quality.