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Sept. 6, 2023

Breakthrough CME/CE: Transform Online Learning with the Art of Facili…

If you are an education provider tasked with designing virtual education, or you work with providers involved in online group learning and experiences, today's episode is a must-listen. Gwyn Wansbrough is a facilitator who de...

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July 24, 2023

Season 5 Finale: 3 Steps to Boost Your Foundational CME Knowledge

Welcome to the season finale of the Write Medicine podcast! Today's episode was supposed to be live on LinkedIn, but we encountered some tech hiccups linking Riverside.fm to LinkedIn Live. Fret not! We recorded the episode fo...

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June 7, 2023

Why Connection Is Key In CME

Whether you are an education provider working with a distributed team or a freelance writer working with multiple clients, connecting with your colleagues, peers, and clients is key. Today I’m taking a deeper dive into connec...

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May 31, 2023

Embracing Uncertainty: Connecting Creativity and Care in Medicine

Recently I read Tornado of Life: A Doctor’s Journey Through Constraints and Creativity in the ER by Jay Baruch, MD. It's a collection of linked essays, so you can dip into the book in small, snatched moments without losing mo...

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May 10, 2023

Crafting Rich Learning Experiences to Optimize Education

Instructional designers are the architects of learning experiences. In this episode, Parker Grant PhD, the co-founder of IDLance, an instructional design freelance agency, discusses the learning process, how to use learners’ ...

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April 5, 2023

Power Up Your CME/CE Writing Strategy with the Art of Negotiation

Christine Welniak is an independent medical writer who specializes in cardiology and diabetes. She values opportunities to develop content that helps healthcare providers learn about new treatments that could improve patient ...

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March 29, 2023

Should You Go Down the Rabbit Hole?

The medical and CME writers I teach often worry about how to rein in a tendency to burrow into the rabbit hole. If you're a medical writer, I'm sure you know what I mean. That tendency to get led into or follow the delicious ...

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March 1, 2023

Rapid Publishing in a Era of Transparency

Medical research has the potential for far-reaching implications for individuals and society. Peer review remains the gold standard to ensure high-quality information. However, traditional journal submission involves an exten...

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Feb. 15, 2023

Nurture Connection: Tell Them a Story

Storytelling cultivates authentic connections and inspires curiosity in our audiences. At the same time, arousing emotions can enhance the learning experience in professional development and continuing education scenarios, li...

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Feb. 15, 2023

Find Your Writing Voice: BONUS Episode

In this bonus episode of Write Medicine I talk with Ben Riggs about writing voice. Ben is Senior Communication Specialist for Kettering Health and author of Tell Them A Story. He shares insights on three components that contr...

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Feb. 8, 2023

Multifaceted Dynamic Patient Cases in CME/CE

The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) encourages the inclusion of the patient perspective within CME activities. And patient cases are a great way to meet this recommendation. Allison Armagan, Pha...

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Jan. 13, 2023

Digging Deeper with Root Cause Analysis

Continuing medical education planning usually includes a needs assessment. But sometimes it’s pretty challenging to get to the root cause of clinical or professional practice gaps, because they are often multifactorial. That’...

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Jan. 9, 2023

Conscious Communication in CME Content Creation

Crystal Herron, PhD, ELS founder of Redwood Ink, is an editor, educator and coach. In this episode, she shares her insights into building relationships through supportive, mindful collaboration. Crystal explains how cultivati...

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Nov. 28, 2022

The Future of Learning is Sound: Podcasts in Continuing Healthcare Ed…

We're getting a little meta here on Write Medicine—this is a podcast episode on the value of podcasts 😉 Did you know that podcasts are increasing in popularity in continuing healthcare education? As I was researching this epi...

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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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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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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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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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