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Feb. 22, 2023

Balancing Body Maintenance for Medical Writers

Sedentary lifestyles pose significant well-being challenges to western cultures. For example, prolonged periods at a desk affect posture, mental and physical health, and stress levels. Those of us working in continuing medica...

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Feb. 15, 2023

Nurture Connection: Tell Them a Story

Storytelling cultivates authentic connections and inspires curiosity in our audiences. At the same time, arousing emotions can enhance the learning experience in professional development and continuing education scenarios, li...

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Feb. 15, 2023

Find Your Writing Voice: BONUS Episode

In this bonus episode of Write Medicine I talk with Ben Riggs about writing voice. Ben is Senior Communication Specialist for Kettering Health and author of Tell Them A Story. He shares insights on three components that contr...

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Feb. 8, 2023

Multifaceted Dynamic Patient Cases in CME/CE

The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) encourages the inclusion of the patient perspective within CME activities. And patient cases are a great way to meet this recommendation. Allison Armagan, Pha...

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Feb. 1, 2023

Evolving CME/CE with Outcomes Reports

Providers of accredited education for health professionals need to demonstrate that education activities have changed learner behavior and healthcare quality for the better. One of the best ways to show positive change is via...

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Jan. 25, 2023

Fearless Freelance Marketing in CME Writing and Beyond

Are you fearless in your marketing? If not, I got good news for you. Lori De Milto, author of The fearless Freelancer is talking with me on this episode of Write Medicine. We explore effective marketing for freelance writers ...

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Jan. 13, 2023

Digging Deeper with Root Cause Analysis

Continuing medical education planning usually includes a needs assessment. But sometimes it’s pretty challenging to get to the root cause of clinical or professional practice gaps, because they are often multifactorial. That’...

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Jan. 9, 2023

Conscious Communication in CME Content Creation

Crystal Herron, PhD, ELS founder of Redwood Ink, is an editor, educator and coach. In this episode, she shares her insights into building relationships through supportive, mindful collaboration. Crystal explains how cultivati...

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Dec. 12, 2022

Improving Community Health at the Confluence of QI and CME

Community health improvement and improving healthcare quality are both Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Accreditation with Commendation criteria. In this episode of Write Medicine, Heather Clemon...

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Nov. 28, 2022

The Future of Learning is Sound: Podcasts in Continuing Healthcare Ed…

We're getting a little meta here on Write Medicine—this is a podcast episode on the value of podcasts 😉 Did you know that podcasts are increasing in popularity in continuing healthcare education? As I was researching this epi...

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Nov. 14, 2022

Cultivating a Visual Mindset: Infographics in Continuing Healthcare E…

Infographics offer a powerful tool in our education armamentarium. We process images much faster than we do text, so visual communication saves time and allows more effective data retention. On this episode of Write Medicine,...

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Oct. 31, 2022

Enhance Your CME/CE Provider Portfolio with Podcasts

Podcasts continue to grow in popularity, and educational podcasts have multiplied in recent years. In addition, the trend towards mobile education and shorter, more focused activities will likely continue as millennials becom...

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Oct. 17, 2022

Between the Cracks: Designing Multidisciplinary Provider Education to…

Multi-disciplinary education has expanded in the last decade or so as a way to ensure that healthcare teams cooperate, coordinate care and communicate to make care more patient-centered, continuous and reliable. On this episo...

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Oct. 3, 2022

Meeting the Need for Trustworthy CME/CE Needs Assessments

Ruwaida Vakil, MSc is a consultant, speaker and a medical writer with expertise in medical communications and continuing medical education (CME). Ruwaida earned her MSc in Immunology at the University of Toronto and the Ontar...

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Sept. 19, 2022

Defining Competencies for CME/CE Writers

In this episode of Write Medicine, I'm joined by Don Harting to talk about CME writing competencies. What are the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that those writing CME/CPD content need to develop in order to create content ...

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Sept. 2, 2022

Straight Talk: CME/CE as an Ally for LGBTQIA+ Health

According to a 2022 Gallup poll , the percentage of adults in the US who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or something other than heterosexual has doubled in the last decade, and stands at 7.1%. 1 in 5 Gen...

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June 17, 2022

Recipes for Animating CME/CPD

Jayzona Alberto EdD, MS began her continuing healthcare education career by working on curricula for dentists and other clinicians before transitioning to the Stanford University School of Medicine, where she currently serves...

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May 17, 2022

Corralling Content for Multimodal Continuing Healthcare Education

On this episode of Write Medicine, my guest is Dr. Eve Wilson CHCP, FACEHP (she/her), a medical writer with deep expertise who helped me get started in the field. While Eve is primarily a creator of continuing medical educati...

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April 5, 2022

Scaffolding Behavioral Change

Brian McGowan PhD, FACEP planned to be the team orthopedic surgeon for Notre Dame football. After a month of working in an orthopedic rehab hospital when he was in college, he realized that he didn't know what he wanted to …

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Jan. 7, 2022

Ghostwriter: Who? What? How?

Today we're talking about ghostwriting. Not the ghostwriting that has been loaded with negative associations within medical writing circles for many years but a different kind of ghostwriting. The kind that gets your business...

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Dec. 27, 2021

Making the Match: Building Professional Identity after Residency

Brenda Thompson is my guest on this episode of the podcast. Brenda has a background in counseling and education and is a longtime professional in the graduate medical education space. For the last year or so, Brenda has been ...

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Dec. 13, 2021

The Utility of Social Media in Continuing Healthcare Education

Allison Kickel is Founder & President of Bonum CE. I kept coming across Allison at meetings and via LinkedIn posts and knew I wanted to have a conversation with her. She's smart—that goes without saying—as well as funny and w...

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Nov. 29, 2021

Punchline! Humor and Facilitated Learning in Continuing Healthcare Ed…

This episode's guest is no stranger to many of you in the world of continuing healthcare education. Lawrence Sherman FACEHP, CHCP is president of Meducate Global, LLC and describes himself as a learning facilitator, a global ...

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Nov. 15, 2021

Story Intelligence: Enabling Learning through the Powers of Story

We tell ourselves stories in order to live, as Joan Didion wrote in The White Album . We talk a lot about the importance of story on this podcast, and about storytelling as a portal to learning. In today's episode, …

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