The TEC Podcasts are co-hosted by Dr. James McCormack a Professor and Pharmacist from the University of British Columbia and Dr Michael Allan, an Associate Professor and Family Physician from the University of Alberta . They have been doing the Podcasts for the last 18 months and have been getting a very good response in Canada and beyond - #1 Medical Podcast at present and almost always in the top 3 Medical Podcasts - and in the top 15-20 in the States (and a number of other countries). Approximately 15,000 - 20,000 podcasts are downloaded a month. Each weekly Podcast runs between 20 and 40 minutes and they present important and interesting therapeutic issues with an approach that is practical, sometimes controversial and hopefully, most of the time, entertaining. On occasion, Mike and James often invite "experts" to join in to add to the content and overall mayhem.
The messages are very pertinent and relevant to family physicians, pharmacists and also medical/pharmacy students, residents, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants etc. In addition, a number of non-medical people are becoming regular listeners.
A LIST OF RECENT TOPICS INCLUDE
- Type 2 Diabetes: How sweet it isn't
- CRP – An important part of a Comprehensive Risk Profile or a Completely Ridiculous Practice
- Becoming less anxious about anxiety disorders
- A New Far-Out Trial: Welcome to Jupiter
- De-Bugging the Approach to Pneumonia
- Confusing Overwhelming Puffer Data leaving us Breathless
- Osteoporosis: The Initial Approach to Bone-Density
- Swiss Cheese and The Evidence Holes in the Lipid Hypothesis
You can find it by clicking here TEC podcast and as long as you have iTunes open on your computer you should be able to see them all. Or if you wish, if you are in the iTunes store part of iTunes, just search therapeutics education. In addition, if you go to therapeuticseducation.org, you can get all the references discussed via the show notes link. Finally you can get a brief idea about the overall philosophy of the podcast by going to this blog.
Here is a selection of some podcasts made by the Virtual Congress Organization, divided by topics of interest: