No 13 - The Best Medical Podcasts of 2021

TLDR Summary

Listed below are 151 of the world’s most listened to medical podcasts of 2021. The top 50 are ranked according to what I like and would recommend. The remaining 101 are a bit random and based of a skim of their latest episodes.

If you would like to vote for your favourite medical podcast of 2021 then please vote here: Vote for your favourite medical podcast of 2021

If you think my lists is totally wrong or that I have missed out some absolutely essential podcasts then please let me know and I will update the list!

The whole point of this site is to produce short articles that are useful for people who want to learn more medicine. I originally thought it would be really easy to rank all of the medical podcasts out there … turns out it really isn’t easy.

This list also highlights that there is just too much medicine for one person to learn it all. There is no way that one clinician could listen to every podcast on this list. But if you want to use podcasts to help you keep up to date then you have plenty of choice.

The prize for the speciality with the most verbal diarrhoea and the most competition for listerners has got to go to “Emergency Medicine” and “PHEM”. Well done to all of the authors in this competitive field. They really are leading the way in bringing medical education into the 21st century.

No matter what speciality you are working in or are studying for, I hope you find something useful or interesting in this list. Good luck with your studies. If you do find this article useful then please share it with your colleagues and sign up for more updates.

The Top Medical Podcasts of 2021

1. The St. Emlyn’s Podcast

2. The Zero to Finals Medical Revision Podcast – Dr Thomas Watchman

3. The Resus Room

4. PHEMcast

5. REBEL Cast

6. RCEM Learning (and EMJ)

7. This Podcast Will Kill You

8. Freakanomics MD

9. Sawbones Podcast

10. FOAMCast - An Emergency Medicine Podcast

11. The RAGE Podcast - The Resuscitationist's Awesome Guide to Everything

12. Medgeeks Clinical Review Podcast

13. The Emergency Medical Minute

14. The BBC More or Less Podcast

15. Primary Care Knowledge Boost

16. Surgery 101

17. The Jolly GP Trainee Podcast

18. Real Life Pharmacology - Pharmacology Education for Health Care Professionals

19. Harrison's PodClass: Internal Medicine Cases and Board Prep

20. BJGP Interviews

21. The EMJ Podcast

22. The Military Medicine Podcast  

23. Cram The Pance

24. Emergency Medicine Cases Dr Anton Helman

25. Coda Change

26. RCGP CIRC (Clinical Innovation and Research Centre)

27. NEJM Interviews

28. FOAMfrat Podcast Tyler Christifulli & Sam Ireland

29. CanadiEM Podcasts

30. WEMCast

31. BBC Inside Health

32. RCGP eLearning  

33. GPnotebook Podcast

34. NICE Talks

35. The Fat Emperor Podcast  

36. The Orthobullets Podcast

37. The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine Dr. Ken Milne

38. The BMJ Podcast

39. The BMJ Best Practice

40. MedConversations

41. The BBC Life Scientific

42. BBC Analysis

43. The Guardian Science Weekly Podcast

44. NEJM This Week

45. JAMA Editors’ Summary

46. PedsCases  

47. The Curious Clinicians

48. emDOCs.net Emergency Medicine (EM) Podcast

49. EMCrit Podcast - Scott D Weingart MD

50. The Prehospital Podcast

51. TOTAL EM Tools of the trade and academic learning in emergency medicine – Chip Lange  

52. Run the List - W. Redd, E. Gutowski, N. Kumar

53. Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast

54. Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

55. Trauma ICU Rounds

56. The Internet Book of Critical Care Podcast Adam Thomas & Josh Farkas

57. EM Basic Steve Carroll  

58. Bedside Rounds

59. DDx

60. Stimulus Rob Orman MD

61. Academic Life in Emergency Medicine

62. eGPLearning Podblast

63. Your AKT Podcast - Pass the AKT!

64. The General Practice Podcast

65. The BMJ Deep Breath In

66. GeriPal

67. CorConsult Rx: Evidence-Based Medicine and Pharmacy

68. EMGuidewire's Podcast

69. CardioNerds a cardiology podcast

70. Paediatric Emergencies Dr Christopher Flannigan

71. Pediatric Emergency Playbook

72. The Cribsiders

73. The Mayo Clinic Talks

74. JAMA Clinical Reviews

75. BASICS Scotland Podcast

76. Two Paeds in a Pod Dr Ian Lewins

77. You’re Kidding RIght? Freya Bleathman & Anne Atkins

78. CREOGs Over Coffee

79. The FlightBridgeED Podcast

80. Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast

81. Heavy Lies the Helmet Mike & Bryan Boone

82. Core EM - Emergency Medicine Podcast

83. The Intern At Work: Internal Medicine

84. EMS 20/20  

85. Emergency Medicine Board Bombs

86. BJA Education Podcasts

87. The EMS Lighthouse Project

88. Annals of Internal Medicine Podcast

89. The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

90. CORE IM Podcast

91. Neurology Exam Prep Podcast Jeremy Moeller

92. Critical Care Scenarios

93. Divine Intervention Podcast for USLME

94. Medic Mindset Ginger Locke

95. Frankly Speaking About Family Medicine

96. AFP: American Family Physician Podcast

97. The Pharm So Hard Podcast: An Emergency Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy Podcast

98. LSHTM Viral

99. EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder

100. GEMCAST

101. Medic Class Citizen

102. EM Clerkship

103. Best Science Medicine Podcast - BS without the BS

104. Infectious Diseases Society of America

105. Critical Care Reviews Podcast Rob Mac Sweeney

106. Nature Podcast

107. White Coat Investor Podcast

108. BBC All in the Mind

109. BBC Health Check

110. Annals On Call Podcast

111. RCP Medicine Podcast

112. Plenary Session - Vinary Prasad MD MPH

113. Health Report

114. After the Call

115. The RSI Podcast

116. Mind Body Medic

117. Critical Care Scenarios

118. Morning Report

119. MCHD Paramedic Podcast

120. Pragmatic Paramedics Aaron and Jason

121. Free Radicals Paramedic Podcast

122. The Emergency Mind Podcast

123. Pre-Hospital Care Podcast

124. ER-Rx: An ER + ICU Podcast

125. EMplify by EB Medicine

126. Air Methods Prehospital Education Podcast

127. DUSTOFF Medic Podcast

128. General BroadCAST

129. Standard of Care Podcast

130. Medic In The Middle

131. EMRA*Cast

132. Prehospital Emergency Care Podcast - the NAEMSP Podcast

133. EMS World Podcasts

134. 2 View: Emergency Medicine PAs & NPs

135. The Medical Humanities Podcast

136. Dragon Bytes Paediatric Podcast Dr Assim Javaid and Dr Stacey Harris

137. The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast Dr Rupy Aujla

138. Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

139. My Menopause Doctor Dr Louise Newson

140. RCGP Somewhere in between podcast

141. WarDocs - The Military Medicine Podcast

142. SAMOPS Specialty Spotlights

143. The Dr Axe Show

144. NB Hot Topics Podcast

145. You are not a frog – Dr Rachel Morris

146. The Food Medic Dr Hazel Wallace

147. Tradeoffs

148. Money Meets Medicine with Ryan Inman and Dr. Jimmy Turner

149. The Passive Income MD

150. DTB Podcast

151. The Breach EM Research Bulletin - (only this low because it has stopped producing episodes)