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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 be...

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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, we get to ...

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Nov. 1, 2021

Adult Learning in a Virtual World: Instructional Design and E-Learning

One of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the massive shift from live meetings and education to virtual formats and the longer term implications of this shift is an ongoing conversation in the continuing healt...

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Oct. 15, 2021

Mentoring You, Mentoring Me: Reciprocity and Relationship

My guest on episode 16 of Write Medicine is Greselda Butler, a health education professional who works at Otsuka. Greselda lives her passion for educating and leading others toward their passion. IN this episode, we talk abou...

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Oct. 4, 2021

Cultivating a Craftsman Mindset in Continuing Healthcare Education

Anne Jacobson MSPharm, CHCP is an independent writer who has been specializing in healthcare professional education since 1999. We recorded our conversation in May 2021. For Anne and many colleagues in continuing healthcare e...

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Sept. 21, 2021

Humanizing Learning—Getting into the Skin of Your Learners

My guest is Dr. Elizabeth Franklin, Associate Professor in the School of Health Related Professions at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Elizabeth teaches research, communications, and health policy for the docto...

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Sept. 6, 2021

Getting Comfortable with Uncertainty

Karen Overstreet EdD, RPh, FACEHP, CHCP, Vice President, Scientific and Educational Affairs for Medical Learning Institute, Inc. is here to talk about her journey into educating health professionals and some of the things she...

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Aug. 31, 2021

Season 2 Trailer

Hello and welcome to Write Medicine. I’m your host Alex Howson and I use She/her pronouns. I wanted to jump in and introduce myself to those of you who may be new to the podcast and also share a summary of topics that you mig...

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July 5, 2021

Addressing Clinician Burnout Through Mindfully Designed Education

As a yoga teacher who loves to share tools like mindful movement, breath awareness, and stillness to help people cultivate rest and resilience in their lives, I’m beyond delighted to share episode 12 of Write Medicine with yo...

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June 22, 2021

The Power of Multimodality Simulation in Continuing Healthcare Educat…

Martin Warters MA Ed. Tech, CHSE is Head of Education Development Management at Pfizer. Today he shares his expertise on how we can leverage simulation technology in clinical learning and continuing healthcare education. He t...

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June 7, 2021

Every Word Must Count

Adrienne Stevens, EdD, MBA, Vice President and Head of Scientific Strategy at Healio Strategic Solutions shares how her passion for dance, and her interest in the mechanics of movement, physical therapy, anatomy, and physiolo...

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May 24, 2021

Zoom Fatigue, Instructional Design, and Relatable Content

Introduction Amanda Kaczerski, ATC, MS, CHCP is Vice Principal of Educational Strategy at the Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning. We first met at the beginning of 2020, feels like 100 years ago now, when we both co-pre...

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