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Soul Harvest said:
I am going to be doing a lot of driving these next few months and am looking for some good review materials on CD. Any suggestions?
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If your school library has them, Audio-Digest CDs are good. These are lectures from conferences, and are intended to be used for continuing education by practicing physicians. They have these for internal med, OB-Gyn, family practice, general surgery, peds, and other fields. They've been essential to using down time in the car or on the treadmill. Check out http://audiodigest.org/.
 
From someone who has logged >60K on the road in the past 3 years...

Language CDs are good--big selection, and you can always brush up on your Espanol, right?

Plenty of good fiction and non-fiction for entertainment out there.

But I have yet to find good audio review for boards, other than Goljan for Step I (though these are pretty old now and are all pirated).

Let us all know if you find something great!
 
I'm a student representative for Lippincotts. Recently, I was an attendee/speaker at their annual training conference in this really fancy resort in Virginia. Anyways, besides all the other awesome books that they're coming out with (Anatomy Atlas that will top Netter!), they're tapping into the whole MP3/Ipod market and coming out with Audio Review Books for rotations. So expect popular books like Surgical Recall, etc to be available in audio format.

When? I'm not sure. I can find out and get back to you guys...
 
Please check, and let us know if they need anyone to test market on 😉

DOCTORSAIB said:
I'm a student representative for Lippincotts. Recently, I was an attendee/speaker at their annual training conference in this really fancy resort in Virginia. Anyways, besides all the other awesome books that they're coming out with (Anatomy Atlas that will top Netter!), they're tapping into the whole MP3/Ipod market and coming out with Audio Review Books for rotations. So expect popular books like Surgical Recall, etc to be available in audio format.

When? I'm not sure. I can find out and get back to you guys...
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yeah this is a big issue since so many of us on clinical rotations have commutes either in the car or on the train or bus each day and are listening to our Ipods anyway. One site I found gives pediatrics podcasts

http://www.peds.arizona.edu/residency/podcast.asp

it seems *way* too obvious that no one has come out with good products like mp3 format lectures/reviews of topics for the rotations.. if anyone finds any other good free links please post them!
 
Some schools have started posting medical lectures on Podcast on itunes ex. Harvard Med and University of Utah. I am not sure if med students from there would be willing to share how the rest of us can take advantage of their lectures also. It would be nice of them though (user/pass) 🙂 Currently there is some free stuff on itunes's medical/science section of podcast section. JAMA's audio commentary, NEJM This Week, NYTimes Science Times, and Instant Anatomy are one of the good ones !!
 
ditto what everyone says

espanol on tap is my favorite!
 
Ipods, podcasts, guess I need one of those. Sounds like there aren't too many audio cd's out there. Thank you for the input.
 
Distance relationship... I travel a lot...
Through itunes do a podcast search for "surgery" or "medicine"
in addition to the above...
University of Tenn IM has some good ones.
McGraw-Hill has a series of reviews that are pretty good.
NEJM basicly reads their abstracts for the week.
The congress of Neurosurgeons has a good series as does the the American college of cardiology.
And.. for old times sake... put on some black market Goljan from Step 1... good review of some forgoton path.
 
Aren't there some Goljan medicine lectures out there? I think those are supposed to be helpful for Step 2.
 
Does anyone have the Golian lecs for Step 2 ? I only have for Step 1.
Thanks
 
any good recs for spanish cd's????
that i know i could really use. 👍
 
flipflopsnsnow said:
any good recs for spanish cd's????
that i know i could really use. 👍
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you should check out your local library. They often have language courses on tape or CD, and are great for brushing up. 👍
 
library is a good idea. my local libraries actually have audiobooks available for download off their site.
 
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I've been checking out the AudioDigest CD reviews from our school's library. These are up-to-date reviews of current topics for practicing docs. Free, excellent review, plus the newest practice guidelines. Useful and immediately applicable for clinical rotations.

I have not found a great Podcast source; I listen to NPR Science Friday on relevant topics, the NEJM podcast, etc., but haven't found a good-quality review.

If you have intermediate-level Spanish comprehension, an interesting podcast is Vivir Mejor, with titles like, "Una lesión en el pene puede provocar su curvatura" (a lesion of the penis can increase its curvature). The audio quality isn't great, unfortunately. Nuevos Horizontes is another consumer-oriented health program with more ordinary topics, but it's great for picking up vocab etc. and has better audio quality.
 
That is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks
 
Very nice link. Is there any way to save the podcast in order to convert it onto a CD for driving?
 
convert to WAV and burn to CD, listen in any cd player - or just buy one of the things for your ipod so you can play it through your car radio - or any radio for that matter (like iTrip or something similar).
 
Medkast is awesome. Audio-digest is good if you can get them from your library otherwise they are pretty expensive ($18 per lecture). There are MANY medical podcasts that you can subscribe to for free and get lectures on any number of subjects. In regards to the cd thing, if you have a cd player in your car that is mp3 compatible just burn all the tracks to a cd-r. Burning normal audio cd's will lead to a BIG stack of cd's. If you have a tape player get the adapter to plug in your mp3 player/ipod. I actually found a clarion cd player that I could plug my USB flash drive into and play them like that which is way easier.😀
 
I am in the same boat with hours of driving -- I've found podcasts from Harrison's the other Access Medicine books at http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/podcast/acm/ - it's free to subscribe. mostly three minute "updates" but occasionally there's a whole lecture. THe other site I know of for free downloads is the website for the journal critical care, they do half hour podcasts that are specific to SICU/MICU issues. nerdy, yes, but if you're in your car two hours a day, it's a better use of time.
 
Seems like it would be difficult to exercise and listen to medical lectures/topics at the same time. Is this something that can be done effectively while exercising?
 
does anyone have any thoughts????? i see the new surgery recall is out on audio from lippincott

thanks!
 
If you have the kaplan lectures, you can extract the audio and throw it onto your ipod. I think that this is the best way to go since you are actually being lectured.
 
This is a way underserved area of the market. I makes no sense to me at all that there is not a well recorded and comprehensive product on the market (available in red-book cd or some other compressed format) for studying for the boards. If I actually knew any medicine, I would do one of these myself and make a killing.

Judd
 
how to does one extract the audio from a .wmv?
 
If I actually knew any medicine, I would do one of these myself and make a killing.
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lol...😛 ...too funny and too true!!! i cna't believe what this thread reveals, lol...we should add this to the list of "what to do in medicine wihtout having done residency", lol...
 
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