UAB Medicine wants to hear your ideas for its medical education and clinical information podcast series, UAB Medcast. These podcasts – which are eligible for CME credit – are ideal for physicians, nurses, technicians and other medical professionals interested in staying abreast of clinical and research developments at UAB Medicine while helping satisfy their ongoing professional education requirements.
Several surgery faculty have already participated, including Adam Beck, M.D., Jayme Locke, M.D., Jamie Cannon, M.D., Helen Krontiras, M.D., Richard Stahl, M.D., Colin Martin, M.D., and Gregory Kennedy, M.D., Ph.D., as well as Department of Surgery Chair Herbert Chen, M.D in 2018 and 2020.
An extension of the MD Learning Channel, UAB MedCast is a collection of audio presentations that you can listen to on your computer, tablet or smartphone and seeks to highlight the latest medical and research innovations at UAB Medicine.
The institutional goal of the podcast is to bring peer-to-peer UAB-quality educational resources to the regional and national communities in hopes of ultimately affecting hospital reputation. Ideally, the episodes would fall under one of the follow three themes: Clinical Skill (clinical best practices, new guidelines, differential diagnosis), Medical Innovation (robotics/technologies, clinical studies/trials), and Quality & Outcomes (key data markers that differentiate UAB in clinical practice).
UAB Medicine works with a vendor, RadioMD, that produces all the content for each podcast. Based on a predetermined topic, the host, Melanie Cole, will ask questions and guide the conversation in a talk-radio style very similar to what you would expect from something like NPR. This is all done over the phone and should only take about 15 minutes.
Additionally, UAB Medicine works with the CME office to get 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM applied to each episode. After recording the episode, the physician guest will need to provide a signed disclosure form and three multiple choice post-test questions. Then, the UAB Medcast team will take care of the rest!
The episode production and CME application are completely paid for by UAB Medicine. The only requirements are that the topic has to be educational enough to merit CME credit and has to be strategic to the institution.
If you have an idea for UAB Medcast, email surgcomm@uabmc.edu