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The Texas Tech Medcast is a podcast for medical residents, medical students, practicing physicians, and others involved in medical education and high quality, patient-centered primary care. The Texas Tech MedCast Series are available as a subscription or as individual episodes at no charge from the Apple iTunes Music Store (search Texas Tech or MedCast). The Reynolds Geriatrics Series is supported in part by an Aging and Quality of Life grant from the D.W. Reynolds Foundation. Instructions for Texas Tech HSC third-year medical students on how to use the podcasts during their Internal Medicine and Family Medicine clerkship rotations are available HERE.
Click here for the USMLE Step Exam Test Prep Geriatric Podcasts:
Step2CK Test Prep Series, prepared for MS3 students by MS4 students
Step 1 Test Prep Series, prepared for MS2 students by MS2 students
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MS3 Spring 2010Posted: 9/14/2006 | This episode outlines 5 strategies for effective prescribing in the elderly
Podcast Pearl: Considerations for dose regimen in the elderly (Dr. Kitty McMahon) |
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| Posted: 9/14/2006 | This episode provides an overview of the prevalence and types of urinary incontinence, as well as techniques for effective history-taking and treatment recommendations.
Podcast Pearl: Kegel Exercises for Urinary Incontinence (Dr. Prabhu) |
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| Assessing the Older Adult: Approach to the Patient MS3 Fall 2009Posted: 9/26/2006 | This episode addresses techniques for obtaining a health history from an older adult, focusing on the physician’s demeanor, communication style, and approach to the patient.
Podcast Pearl: Seven tips for effectively communicating with an older patient during an office visit | Lynn Bickley, MD |
| Nursing Home Visits: A How-To Guide MS3 Fall 2009Posted: 9/26/2006 | This episode includes a how-to guide for effective nursing home visits, focusing on the admission H &P, routine nursing home visits, annual exams, and acute/ urgent care visits.
Podcast Pearl: Readmission to the Nursing Home after Hospitalization: Avoiding Problems (Dr. Baker) |
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| Health Literacy and the Older Adult Fact Sheet Posted: 10/13/2006 | This episode includes an overview of health literacy with special emphasis on health literacy issues that affect the older adult and includes strategies for helping older patients overcome problems with health literacy.
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| Evaluation of Falls in the Elderly MS3 Spring 2010Posted: 11/14/2006 | This episode outlines the clinical significance of falls in the elderly, the consequences of falls, risk factors for falls, and clinical approaches to the elderly patient who falls.
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| Posted: 12/08/2006 | This episode provides an overview of narrative medicine and outlines benefits of engaging in the narrative medicine process to both patient and physician.
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| Geriatric Functional Assessment MS3 Fall 2009Posted: 1/19/2007 | This episode gives an overview of the purposes of functional assessment of the elderly as well as tools for easy assessment in the office setting.
Useful Links for this episode:
| Mike Ragain, MD |
| BPH: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Fact Sheet Posted: 1/29/2007 | This episode discusses issues related to BPH, benign prostatic hyperplasia (or hypertrophy).
This episode was recorded and edited during a seminar at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Predoctoral Education Conference at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Friday, January 26, 2007. |
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| Fact Sheet Posted: 2/19/2007 | This episode outlines issues related to Plantar Fasciitis, a common condition in older adults.
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MS3 Spring 2010Posted: 4/24/2007 | This episode illustrates the use of the Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE), a brief instrument useful for assessing mental status in the elderly.
This episode was recorded and edited during a seminar at the Southern Group on Educational Affairs (SGEA) Conference at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, on Thursday, April 19, 2007. | Tommie Farrell, MD |
| Nutritional Issues and Concerns in the Elderly Posted: 5/15/2007 | This episode outlines nutrition issues and concerns in elderly patients.
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| Preventive Screening for the Elderly MS3 Fall 2009Posted: 7/2/2007 | This episode outlines preventive screening recommendations for elderly patients.
| Tommie Farrell, MD Anthony Carter, |
| Alzheimer's Disease and Other Forms of Dementia, Part 1 Posted: 1/9/2008 | This episode provides an introduction to Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
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| Alzheimer's Disease and Other Forms of Dementia, Part 2 Posted: 9/5/2008 | This episode gives an overview of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias
| Mohammed Sammiuddin, MD |
MS3 Spring 2010Posted: 1/6/2009 | This episode gives an overview of delirium, which is not uncommon in the elderly, but can be very subtle.
Podcast Pearl: Apathetic Delirium (Dr. Dentino) |
Andrew Dentino, MD |
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"Using Podcasting to Deliver Resident Cardiovascular Training in a Practice-Based Primary Care Research Network,"
contact Betsy Goebel Jones, EdD, Podcast Producer and Project PI.
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