The Best Medical Podcasts for Healthcare Providers

No matter if you’re a medical student or practicing physician, continuing your education and staying up to date with the current advances and news in the medical industry is important. Podcasts are a great way to get this information in an easy listening and convenient format. Perfect for the commute, at the gym or home, we’ve compiled a list of the top 15 medical podcasts for healthcare professionals. Offering tips, advice, general health news and inspiring medical stories, there really is something for everyone. 

• The Short Coat Podcast

By Dave Etler and the students of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

Perfect for those who have just started on their medical path and are beginning their medical school journey. The medical students at the University of Iowa Medical School and their co-host Dave Etler give you a better picture of what really happens at the margins of medicine.

• The Undifferentiated Medical Student

By Ian Drummond

The Undifferentiated Medical Student is all about helping medical students choose a specialty and plan their career in the medical industry. The list of career options for medical students is quite long and the time you get to explore them all is short, so this podcast by a 4th year medical student is great for a bit of insight when choosing your specialisation.

• Docs Outside The Box – A Podcast Where Ordinary Doctors Are Doing Extraordinary Things

By Nii Darko

A podcast that takes a look into the minds of some of the most cutting edge and innovative doctors, with stories that you won’t find in any medical textbooks. Listen to live insight from doctors who are doing extraordinary things in medicine, but don’t follow the “traditional route”. Dr. Nii Darko gives insight into doctors who do medical humanitarian work, run their own businesses, write books, go on TV shows and even create podcasts, just like himself. Created to inspire doctors to think outside the box and break free from the classic clinical exam room, you’ll learn to create habits to become a successful doctor, doing locum work, healthcare in general and so much more.

• Everyday Emergency

By Doctors Without Borders

The famous not for profit organisation Doctors Without Borders runs the Everyday Emergency podcast, speaking to medical and logistical experts working where medical care is needed most around the world, including places like Syria, Yemen, South Asia and across Europe. The podcast tells the stories of women’s struggle for healthcare, refugees fleeing disaster, doctors saving innocent lives amid chaos, and people dealing with a war-torn country and poor health.

• Bedside Rounds

By Adam Rodman

Bedside Rounds podcast tells interesting, insightful and quick segments of information and stories in clinical medicine. Rodman is an academic global health hospitalist, who started this podcast back when he was an Internal Medicine Resident.

• EMCrit Podcast – Critical Care & Resuscitation

By Scott D. Weingart, MD

 

An engaging and motivational podcast that discusses all things Emergency Department. Devoted to curative and palliative care with some of the best evidence-based information from a range of critical care fields, resuscitation and trauma translated for your use in the ED or ICU fields. Topics covered include administering thrombolytics during cardiac arrest, attempting midline incisions, dealing with upper airway obstruction or cardiogenic shock, treating asthma, and saving people’s lives in war-torn countries.

• Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

By Kevin Kniery, Jason Bingham, John McClellan & Scott Steele 

Behind the Knife is a great podcast for anyone interested in gaining not only an in-depth knowledge of the broad range of surgical topics, but also a behind the scenes look at situations of the interesting, controversial and intrinsically human side of surgery from some of the biggest names in the field.

• Legends of Surgery

By  Tyler Rouse

This podcast has an entertaining and informative manner, presenting some of the stories of pioneers and events that shaped the history of modern surgery. These short 20 minute podcasts cover topics such as “how the first cochlear implant was created.” Perfect for commuting!

• FOAMcast – Emergency Medicine Core Content

By FOAMcast

This podcast breaks down essential information on critical topics including concussion, vaping associated lung injury, psychogenic non-epileptic attacks, sickle cell disease and administering Vitamin C, thiamine and hydrocortisone in patients with septic shock. 

 

The FOAMcast is about tying cutting-edge Free Open Access Medical education (FOAM) to core content. Clinical trials, literature and policies related to the topics discussed are reviewed, referenced and provided for listeners to go and read. The podcast is serious yet entertaining and educational at the same time, a perfect listen for medical students.

 

• Radiolab

By WNYC Studios

Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, centred around one big idea – where information, science and culture collide. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show is designed for science lovers of all disciplines.

• The Medical Journal of Australia

By the MJA

Australia’s premier general medical journal podcast features interviews with researchers and other industry members about medical breakthroughs, potential avenues of future research, and issues affecting the medical industry.

• Broomedocs Podcast

By Dr. Casey Parker

Perfect for the country doctors. We all know Australia’s territory is huge, but this becomes more evident with Broomedocs podcast. This podcast gives a glimpse into the life of remote-area doctors and how they deal with whatever comes to their doors.

• Health Report – Full Program Podcast

By ABC Radio National

The Health Report offers a broad definition of health, discussing this topic within a range of social, scientific and political contexts. This podcast by ABC Radio National gives insight into misunderstood illnesses, information on better treatments and current research from industry experts on a wide variety of health topics. The perfect podcast for both specialist and mainstream healthcare audiences.

• This Podcast Will Kill You

By Erin Welsh & Erin Allmann Updyke

This podcast talks humorously about infectious diseases that could kill you. Each episode covers a different disease, including its history, biology and how scared you should be of it. This podcast won’t actually kill you, but It’s independently produced and edited by co-hosts Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke, graduate students in disease ecology – experts in disease that could. 

• Second Opinion

By KCRW

Hosted by Michael Wilkes, a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, this podcast examines medical ethics and the practitioners who define them. This podcast offers a great way to learn about a company creating an expensive drug that prevents HIV, the impact of bias on health, and other topics like these. If you need a second opinion on other health-related issues like whether you should take aspirin or supplements daily, or increase your consumption of red meat, then this podcast is for you.