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Corralling Content for Multimodal Continuing Healthcare Education
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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Scaffolding Behavioral Change
April 4, 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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Ghostwriter: Who? What? How?
Jan. 7, 2022

Ghostwriter: Who? What? How?

Today we're talking about ghostwriting. Not the ghostwriting that has been loaded with negative associations within medical writing circles for many years but a different kind of ghostwriting. The kind that gets your business...

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Making the Match: Building Professional Identity after Residency
Dec. 27, 2021

Making the Match: Building Professional Identity after Residency

Brenda Thompson is my guest on this episode of the podcast. Brenda has a background in counseling and education and is a longtime professional in the graduate medical education space. For the last year or so, Brenda has been ...

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The Utility of Social Media in Continuing Healthcare Education
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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Punchline! Humor and Facilitated Learning in Continuing Healthcare Education
Nov. 28, 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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Story Intelligence: Enabling Learning through the Powers of Story
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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Adult Learning in a Virtual World: Instructional Design and E-Learning
Nov. 1, 2021

Adult Learning in a Virtual World: Instructional Design and E-Learning

One of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the massive shift from live meetings and education to virtual formats and the longer term implications of this shift is an ongoing conversation in the continuing healt...

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Mentoring You, Mentoring Me: Reciprocity and Relationship
Oct. 14, 2021

Mentoring You, Mentoring Me: Reciprocity and Relationship

My guest on episode 16 of Write Medicine is Greselda Butler, a health education professional who works at Otsuka. Greselda lives her passion for educating and leading others toward their passion. IN this episode, we talk abou...

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Cultivating a Craftsman Mindset in Continuing Healthcare Education
Oct. 4, 2021

Cultivating a Craftsman Mindset in Continuing Healthcare Education

Anne Jacobson MSPharm, CHCP is an independent writer who has been specializing in healthcare professional education since 1999. We recorded our conversation in May 2021. For Anne and many colleagues in continuing healthcare e...

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Humanizing Learning—Getting into the Skin of Your Learners
Sept. 20, 2021

Humanizing Learning—Getting into the Skin of Your Learners

My guest is Dr. Elizabeth Franklin, Associate Professor in the School of Health Related Professions at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Elizabeth teaches research, communications, and health policy for the docto...

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Getting Comfortable with Uncertainty
Sept. 6, 2021

Getting Comfortable with Uncertainty

Karen Overstreet EdD, RPh, FACEHP, CHCP, Vice President, Scientific and Educational Affairs for Medical Learning Institute, Inc. is here to talk about her journey into educating health professionals and some of the things she...

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Season 2 Trailer
Aug. 30, 2021

Season 2 Trailer

Hello and welcome to Write Medicine. I’m your host Alex Howson and I use She/her pronouns. I wanted to jump in and introduce myself to those of you who may be new to the podcast and also share a summary of topics that you mig...

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Addressing Clinician Burnout Through Mindfully Designed Education
July 5, 2021

Addressing Clinician Burnout Through Mindfully Designed Education

As a yoga teacher who loves to share tools like mindful movement, breath awareness, and stillness to help people cultivate rest and resilience in their lives, I’m beyond delighted to share episode 12 of Write Medicine with yo...

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The Power of Multimodality Simulation in Continuing Healthcare Education
June 22, 2021

The Power of Multimodality Simulation in Continuing Healthcare Educat…

Martin Warters MA Ed. Tech, CHSE is Head of Education Development Management at Pfizer. Today he shares his expertise on how we can leverage simulation technology in clinical learning and continuing healthcare education. He t...

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Every Word Must Count
June 7, 2021

Every Word Must Count

Adrienne Stevens, EdD, MBA, Vice President and Head of Scientific Strategy at Healio Strategic Solutions shares how her passion for dance, and her interest in the mechanics of movement, physical therapy, anatomy, and physiolo...

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Zoom Fatigue, Instructional Design, and Relatable Content
May 24, 2021

Zoom Fatigue, Instructional Design, and Relatable Content

Introduction Amanda Kaczerski, ATC, MS, CHCP is Vice Principal of Educational Strategy at the Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning. We first met at the beginning of 2020, feels like 100 years ago now, when we both co-pre...

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Entertainment and Edge in Education for Health Professionals
May 7, 2021

Entertainment and Edge in Education for Health Professionals

Introduction Monique Johnson MD is the Medical Director at Physicians' Education Resource and has more than 20 years in the CME field. Monique shares some of the challenges clinicians face when they're in the healthcare indus...

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We’re Going to Make Mistakes. What’s Your Contingency Plan?
April 27, 2021

We’re Going to Make Mistakes. What’s Your Contingency Plan?

Summary Steve Powell DHA is the CEO and Founder of Synensys Global and is a recognized leader in performance improvement. He has led programs in the US Navy, commercial airline industry, and the healthcare industry for more t...

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Leading from the Middle
April 12, 2021

Leading from the Middle

Introduction Today my guest is Nina Taylor, Vice President of Learning and Education at American Society for Radiation Oncology. I first met Nina Taylor in 2018 at an Alliance Quality and Innovation Summit in Park City, Utah....

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Transformational Learning in Medicine and Beyond
March 24, 2021

Transformational Learning in Medicine and Beyond

Regina Sih-Meynier is an authentic leader with expertise in developing and executing strategic plans for Medical Affairs. She is passionate about ensuring patients receive the best available healthcare and she leverages her i...

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Writing Medical Case Studies: The Details Matter
March 14, 2021

Writing Medical Case Studies: The Details Matter

Scott Kober MBA is the Managing Partner of Excalibur Medical Education, which launched in January 2021. He has more than two decades of experience designing and developing content for CME activities and provides high-quality ...

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Plain Language Patient Education
March 1, 2021

Plain Language Patient Education

Dr. Genevieve Long is a medical writer and editor specializing in patient education, plain language, health literacy and marketing communications. She began her medical writing career as a manuscript editor at Oregon Health &...

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Design Thinking in Clinician Education
Feb. 14, 2021

Design Thinking in Clinician Education

My conversation today is with Dr. Andrew Chacko, a psychiatrist and leader in healthcare innovation. Andrew uses his medical experience to teach others how to become design thinkers using cognitive, strategic and practical pr...

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