Radiology Podcasts and Interviews

Podcasting is a way to share information through MP3 audio files. Podcasts are downloaded, shared, and subscribed to using an MP3 player.

It takes more time to read articles than to listen to the best blogposts or articles while sitting in a traffic jam or exercising.

This is an extended, constantly updated list of medical podcasts.



UBC Health Library Wiki has an outstanding resource of medical podcasts.

Free Medical Podcasts

Medical podcasts provide up-to-date information, introduce into scientific reasoning and are extraordinary tools for second-language acquisition as described by Free Medical Podcasts.

MedSqod: Podcasting for Medical Professionals

Peter Beck created MedSqod, a unique blog about medical podcasting: "to fill an open niche in podcasting: helping individual or small group medical professionals wanting to podcast, as opposed to the large institutions that are already educating doctors and the general public. This emphasizes the true strength of the medium - providing directed, pertinent info to particular listeners and practices, delivered convincingly in a familiar, intimate voice."

Johns Hopkins Radiology Teaching Conferences

• Creator: The Johns Hopkins Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program
• Description: "Johns Hopkins Radiology Teaching Conferences are now available free on the iTunes Music Store for residents who miss conference due to night call, AFIP, or vacation. You can listen to lectures on an iPod, or you can listen with any computer after you download iTunes."

Radiology Health

• Creator: "Brought to you by the Medical University of South Carolina, these podcasts are MUSC doctors discussing issues in the field of radiology. The podcasts include such topics as coronary stents and radiological treatment for liver cancer."
• Description: Accredited by HONcode

Radiology Video Podcasts

• Creator: "LearningRadiology.com was conceived, designed, developed, is published, managed and maintained and its content is produced in its entirety by William Herring, MD, FACR. Dr. Herring is the Vice-Chairman and Radiology Residency Program Director at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he has been the Radiology Residency Program Director for over 25 years."
• Description: "In the summer of 2008, LearningRadiology.com began to publish video podcasts made available from the iTunes Store which, within weeks, became the most popular video radiology podcast downloaded from that site and is consistently the most popular medical video podcast on iTunes. Video podcasts are kept short, contain material not found in the textbook and are designed specifically for the small screen."

RadRounds Podcasts

• Creator: The team of http://www.radrounds.com
• Description: "radRounds has created a radiology podcast directory in response to member request. We aim to grow this radiology-focused directory with both your recommendations and also with more medical imaging related podcasts or vodcasts being developed by various radiology publications and radiology societies. Please let us know if you want to add or make a suggestion to the directory."

The Learn Radiology Podcast

• Creator: Click here to see the organizers of the podcast.
• Description: "Learn radiology on the go with free case-based podcasts!"