Specialty Scoop Episode 2: The World of Apps – Part 2
Dr. Jonathan White is a professor of surgery in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta and has been active in surgical education for over 15 years. Back in 2012, Dr. White co-created Surgery 101, a popular series of podcasts intended to serve as brief reviews of surgical topics for medical students. Surgery 101 has been downloaded more than 8 million times in over 200 countries and evolved into an app as well.
In this second episode of Specialty Scoop, host Dr. Guylaine Lefebvre, the executive director of Membership Engagement and Programs at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, speaks to Dr. Jonathan White to understand the lessons behind the success of Surgery 101 and how continuing needs assessment and engaging with your audience helps with its future content and improvement.
Specialty Scoop is a podcast series produced by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada to bring different experts together to talk about breakthrough ideas in specialty medicine.
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