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In this episode, Josh follows up on his approach to evaluating residencies. He talks about looking at board pass rates and the tricky proposition of asking about accreditation status. Then, Jason and Josh then get into a snarky blog post Josh wrote about a recent study evaluating the value of infectious diseases doctors.

In this episode, Josh and Jason do a remote episode and discuss the CDC's recent report on antimicrobial resistance. Josh then picks Jason's brain about how best to evaluate a residency. Jason is not very helpful (only because it's difficult to evaluate a residency program).

Josh and Jason talk about clinical practice guidelines. They discuss the role of guidelines, difficulties developing them, their length, standards, and design factors.

Josh and Jason discuss taking the second part of board exams for medical students (USMLE Step 2), the new maintenance of certification program from the American Board of Pediatrics, the complex payment system based on RVUs (relative value units), and how we measure and improve our performance as clinicians.

After a short hiatus, Josh and Jason return this week to discuss the surgical rotation for medical students, the release of their iPhone app for clinical practice guidelines, and aseptic hand techniques in surgery and the clinics.

In this week's brief episode, Josh and Jason tackle antibiotic use in agriculture, TEDMED and the smartphone physical, and touch on physical diagnosis.​

Josh and Jason continue to debate solutions for efficient intrahospital communication and dive head-long into the resident work hour restriction controversy.​

This week, Josh and Jason join Ed Wallit, Stevan Wing, and Wai Keong Wong from the Digital Doctors podcast to discuss digital literacy among physicians and the growing importance of technology in the practice of medicine.

Josh and Jason delve into the difficulties with work-life balance seemingly inherent in medicine, the moral obligation of a physician to primarily practice medicine, and they briefly touch on the state of healthcare in the United States.

​This week, Josh and Jason respond to criticisms that doctors should not learn how to code and discuss IBM's Watson and it's potential impact on medicine.