Podcasting as a source of medical education is 18 years old and has proven to be a convenient, popular, mainstream tool for providers of all training levels. We can no longer write and think about it as a novel pedagogy in medical education but instead as a widely used source of medical information today. Pediatric educators should work to use this tool in a meaningful way, and institutions should actively work to support podcast development.
According to Edison Research, 89 million Americans listen to podcasts on a weekly basis.1 Worldwide, nearly 500 million people listen to podcasts.2 This vast audience makes podcasting an efficient platform for reaching the public and colleagues with research findings, educational content, and advocacy work. Podcasts were born in 2004 as a daily radio-like program called The Daily Source Code. In 2005, Apple incorporated support for these programs in iTunes and they became...
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