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M.ED POD — CME for the Practicing Clinician

M.ED POD — CME for the Practicing Clinician

By University of Utah Health

The M.ED POD offers free continuing medical education (CME) in 30 minutes or less from University of Utah Health and the Rural & Underserved Utah Training Experience (RUUTE). Conversations are hosted by Tyson Schwab, MD, to offer insight, information, and tools that support clinical care providers, their patients, and their practice. M.ED POD guests share their perspectives and experiences in research, digital health, specialty care, wellness, and more. Follow the pod for compelling conversations with clinical experts for CME on the go.
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A Conversation with Medical Director Dr. Julie Day.

M.ED POD — CME for the Practicing ClinicianDec 22, 2021

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Beyond Eye Care Outreach — Building Capacity & Care Pathways

Beyond Eye Care Outreach — Building Capacity & Care Pathways

Tyson Schwab, MD, (RUUTE) hosts with guests Jeff Petty, MD, MBA, and Sean Collon, MD. They discuss their roles in supporting global and local outreach with the Moran Eye Center and Dr. Collon's Stanford Ophthalmology Global Fellowship under Dr. Geoff Tabin, formerly of the University of Utah. Learn more about Moran Eye Center Outreach and education program resources at morancore.utah.edu.

Dr. Collon's research presentation is also available here, alongside other ophthalmology clinical education.


Oct 31, 202332:60
Project ECHO — CME to Expand Access

Project ECHO — CME to Expand Access

Tyson Schwab, MD, MS, hosts Terry Box, MD, for a discussion on Project ECHO training and expanding access to specialized care. Their conversation references U of U Health CME for providers as well as the Project ECHO technology-enabled collaborative learning program.

Learn more about Med Pod and how to claim CME credit at physicians.utah.edu/medpod. Follow for new episodes in your feed.

Sep 25, 202322:44
Psychiatry and Mental Health Resources for Providers and Patients
Aug 30, 202323:18
Telemedicine: Past, Present, and Here for the Future

Telemedicine: Past, Present, and Here for the Future

Learning Objectives: 

  • Apply appropriate medical decision-making in the context of providing care at a distance using telehealth (e.g. how limited vital signs, physical exam, and point-of-care testing may impact decision-making)
  • How can/is Telehealth being used in emergent care? Describe the various types of telehealth modalities and potential clinical implications.
  • How can you incorporate better web-side manners into your practice?


Mar 08, 202326:46
A Conversation with Medical Director Dr. Julie Day.

A Conversation with Medical Director Dr. Julie Day.

Welcome to M.Ed.: Medical Education for the Practicing Clinician. With us today, we have Dr. Julie Day. Dr. Day is the medical director for the University of Utah Redwood Health Center. She is going to discuss with us being a woman leader in medicine and all the challenges that come along with being a medical director at a large clinic. Enjoy.

Dec 22, 202126:52
Abigail Luman and Naveen Rathi on Medical Student Leadership

Abigail Luman and Naveen Rathi on Medical Student Leadership

Welcome to another episode of M.ED: Medical education for the practicing clinician.  With us today are two fourth year medical students, Naveen Rathi and Abigail Luman. Abigail and Naveen are co-presidents of the student body of the University of Utah SOM. They will be discussing with me medical student leadership and lessons they have learned from their time as leaders at the medical school. Thanks for listening and Happy Thanksgiving!

Nov 24, 202130:17
CMO of University of Utah Health

CMO of University of Utah Health

Welcome back to M.ED: Medical Education for the Practicing Clinician. I'm your host, Dr. Kerry Whittemore.  In this episode, I will be speaking with Dr. Tom Miller, the Chief Medical Officer of University of Utah Health about the challenges and opportunities involved in leading the medical operations of a large academic healthcare system.

Dr. Miller is board certified in internal medicine. His clinical expertise in adult medicine includes evaluation and treatment of hypertension, cholesterol abnormalities, adult onset diabetes, and heart and vascular disease.

Dr. Miller received his undergraduate degree from Colorado College, his MD from George Washington University and completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Utah. He has been a member of the Division of General Medicine since 1992.

Enjoy!

Nov 09, 202127:07
CFO of University of Utah Health Charlton Park

CFO of University of Utah Health Charlton Park

In this episode on leadership, we are taking a bit of a different turn and will be discussing the financial side of healthcare leadership. I was able to interview Charlton Park, who is the chief financial officer and chief analytics officer of the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics.

He oversees the financial planning, budgeting, general accounting, operational and capital financial planning, analytics, and revenue cycle functions of the multi-billion dollar University of Utah Health system.

Charlton received his bachelor of science degree in information systems from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, and his MBA and master of health sector management degrees at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

I hope you enjoy this episode with financial leadership lessons that can be applied to both small medical practices and large healthcare institutions.

Oct 26, 202138:59
CEO of University of Utah Health - The Leader of our Leaders

CEO of University of Utah Health - The Leader of our Leaders

Welcome back to M.Ed. Medical Education for the Practicing Clinician. In this episode, I had the great opportunity to interview the leader of all the leaders at University of Utah Health, Dr. Michael Good. Dr. Good is trained as an anesthesiologist and completed his undergraduate and medical school training at The University of Michigan. Followed by fellowship and residency training at The University of Florida. Dr. Good is the CEO of University of Utah Health, The Dean of the medical school at the University of Utah, and the Senior Vice President of Health Sciences: Positions he has held since 2018. In these positions, Dr. Good works to ensure the professional and educational success of more than 20,000 faculty, staff and students who make University of Utah Health one of the nations premier centers of academic health sciences. He does this with an annual budget of over 3.6 billion dollars. In this episode, we will discuss Dr. Good's leadership style as well as advice he has for those in positions of leadership and those aspiring to hold leadership roles in healthcare. 

Oct 12, 202126:30
Dr. Ty Dickerson on Global Health Leadership

Dr. Ty Dickerson on Global Health Leadership

Welcome to M.ED: Medical Education for the practicing clinician. In this episode I had the opportunity to have an interesting conversation with Dr. Ty Dickerson.

Dr. Dickerson is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Health for the University of Utah School of Medicine where he also serves as the Assistant Dean of Global Health Education. He practices as a pediatric hospitalist at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, where he combines the clinical care of hospitalized children with the education of medical students and resident physicians. Dr Dickerson’s interests include community based maternal and child health in resource poor settings. In addition to teaching clinical medicine, Dr. Dickerson directs the graduate certificate in global medicine, co-directs the Ghana global health learning abroad program and lectures frequently on clinical pediatrics in global health in a variety of settings. In this episode, we discuss Dr. Dickerson’s role in global health leadership at the University of Utah, his thoughts on leadership in the global health sphere and ways students can have a role in global health education as part of an equitable partnership with institutions in resource poor settings. Enjoy!

Sep 28, 202128:41
A Conversation about the Vision of the Future of Medical Education at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah with Dean Dr. Wayne Samuelson
Sep 14, 202150:31
Transgender Medicine Part 2
Jun 23, 202125:33
Transgender Medicine: Part 1

Transgender Medicine: Part 1

Welcome to M.ED: Medical Education for the practicing clinician. This is the first in a two-part episode series on transgender health. I was fortunate to have a really interesting conversation with Dr. Adam Dell, a pediatrician who works in adolescent medicine at the University of Utah Adolescent Medicine Clinic with GeMS (Gender Management and Support). This is a comprehensive clinic for transgender, non-binary, intersex, and gender diverse youth, as well as for youth questioning their gender. The clinic provides care for their patient's physical, mental, and emotional health. Dr. Dell gives a great overview of the state of current transgender medicine, including various treatment options as well as information that every clinician should know when caring for transgender patients. Dr. Dell completed his medical school training at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine and his pediatric residency training at the University of Utah.

Also taking part in this conversation is Dr. Lucy. She has a child who identifies as transgender and she discusses her personal experience of being a parent of a transgender child while also being a pediatrician. We are not using her last name today because her child is a minor and is thus unable to give consent to the use of her name in a public sphere. Please enjoy these episodes that provide timely and important information regarding transgender health that are applicable to clinicians across specialties.

As always, you will find links to articles related to Transgender Medicine on the RUUTE website. Free CME credit is available on the website as well. Please enjoy!

You can visit the RUUTE website at: https://medicine.utah.edu/students/programs/md/curriculum/ruute/preceptor/cme-podcast.php

Jun 08, 202138:16
Art and the Humanities in Medicine: Part 2
May 22, 202131:00
Art and the Humanities in Medicine

Art and the Humanities in Medicine

In this episode of M.ED: Medical Education for the Practicing Clinician, I had the pleasure to interview Gretchen Case, Ph.D., and Susan Sample, Ph.D., MFA.

Gretchen A. Case is Chief of the Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics. She received a BA in Speech Communication and History and an MA in Communication Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill and a PhD in Performance Studies from UC, Berkeley. Dr. Case's research and teaching interests are in the medical humanities (aka healthcare humanities): the many ways in which the arts and humanities intersect with the medical arts and sciences. 

Susan J. Sample is an assistant professor in the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Department of Internal Medicine; Writer-in-Residence at the Huntsman Cancer Institute; and associate instructor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies in the College of Humanities at the University of Utah. She received her BA in philosophy from Whitman College and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Arizona. She completed her Ph.D. in communication, focusing on rhetoric and medicine, from the U of U. Her research explores the rhetorical ways physicians and patients use narrative when writing about experiences with patients at the end of life. 

In this episode, we discuss the intersection of humanities and medicine. What it means to practice medicine centered around the human condition, questions to ask around our biases, and to experience clinical practice as an opportunity to understand suffering, joy, and grief as much as it is an opportunity to learn about the science of modern medicine. Medical humanities remind practicing clinicians to look and discover their inner artist. 

On our website, you will find links to articles related to the Medical Humanities. As always, free CME credit is available on the website as well. Please enjoy!

You can visit the website at: https://medicine.utah.edu/students/programs/md/curriculum/ruute/preceptor/cme-podcast.php


May 12, 202133:25
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
Apr 27, 202132:16
Patient-Centered Care

Patient-Centered Care

In this episode of M.ED, I had the opportunity to talk to Dr. Terry Box. Dr. Box is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Utah Health. Dr. Box completed his medical degree at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, followed by residency and fellowship at the University of Utah. He is also one of only two hepatologists (liver specialists) who has received his own liver transplant.

He will be speaking to us today about his work with Project ECHO as well as his own experience as a liver transplant recipient.

In 2011, he started Project ECHO at the University of Utah Health. Project ECHO connects community providers with specialists to eliminate barriers to access to specialty care.

Project ECHO addresses these issues by training community providers through HIPPA-compliant, technology-enabled collaborative learning to address specialty care-level health concerns in the primary care setting. Multi-disciplinary specialist teams use videoconferencing technology to conduct weekly or bi-weekly sessions with community providers to discuss specialized health care topics. During these clinics, community providers present patient cases to determine the best treatment options. This case-based learning has shown to improve patient health outcomes and provider confidence in treating both common and complex conditions in their communities.

There is no cost associated with participating, and the only requirements to join an ECHO session are access to a computer or mobile device with connection to the internet. Additionally, there are free Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits available for those who participate.

Please go to https://physicians.utah.edu/echo/ to learn more.

Apr 13, 202139:09
Provider Wellness: Part 2

Provider Wellness: Part 2

Mar 30, 202137:15
Provider Wellness: Part 1

Provider Wellness: Part 1

Mar 16, 202133:04
Learning Experiences of a Senior Medical Student
Mar 02, 202142:23
Diversity & Inclusion: Part 2
Feb 16, 202126:37
Diversity & Inclusion: Part 1
Feb 02, 202126:47
Adult Learning Theory
Jan 26, 202125:52
Medical Student Wellness
Jan 19, 202131:06
Overcoming the Challenges of Telemedicine: Part 2
Jan 09, 202127:26
The Future of Telemedicine: Part 1
Jan 07, 202128:33