A Recruitment Tool?
The September podcast will discuss the concept of value-based care, how it relates to updates to the Medicare and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MaCRA) program, and any issues that may affect rheumatology practice, notes Dr. Bhana. “This podcast will help you keep your thumb on the pulse of rheumatology.”
ACR on Air may even help address the core concern of the Workforce Study by attracting students to choose rheumatology as their specialty, says Dr. Hausmann.
“I hope the podcast will encourage people to enter the rheumatology profession and that our conversations will make more people excited about rheumatology as a career,” he says. “It’s the most exciting field in medicine today. Many medical students don’t know much about rheumatology, because they are not exposed to it during their training. This podcast is yet another avenue to show more people what rheumatology is all about and what we are accomplishing for our patients.”
Susan Bernstein is a freelance journalist based in Atlanta.
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- Ringold S, Angeles-Han ST, Beukelman T, et al. 2019 American College of Rheumatology/Arthritis Foundation Guideline for the treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis: Therapeutic approaches for non-systemic polyarthritis, sacroiliitis and enthesitis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2019 Jun;71(6):717–734.
- Battafarano DF, Ditmyer M, Bolster MB, et al. 2015 American College of Rheumatology workforce study: Supply and demand projections of adult rheumatology workforce, 2015–2030. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2018 Apr;70(4):617–626.
Plenty of Rheum to Talk
ACR on Air is just the latest rheumatology podcast to hit the streaming scene. Other podcasts include:
- RheumNow, published and hosted by John J. Cush, MD, director of clinical rheumatology at the Baylor Research Institute, Fort Worth, Texas;
- Rheuminations, published by Healio Rheumatology and hosted by Adam J. Brown, MD; and
- Rheumatology, a podcast hosted by James Galloway, MD, and published by the British Society for Rheumatology.
A few years ago, Michael S. Putman, MD, a second-year rheumatology fellow at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, launched the Evidence-Based Rheumatology podcast, which has aired 42 episodes. His new podcast is Rheum4Debate, which offers a point/counterpoint-style clinical conversation co-hosted by rheumatologist Anisha B. Dua, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine at Northwestern University. In their latest debate, they argued whether or not systemic lupus erythematosus patients on cyclophosphamide should take the antibiotic sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim.
