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. 2020 Jul;35(7):2176-2178.
doi: 10.1007/s11606-019-05606-2. Epub 2020 Jan 2.

Medical Education Podcasts: Where We Are and Questions Unanswered

Justin Berk  1 , Shreya P Trivedi  2 , Matthew Watto  3 , Paul Williams  4 , Robert Centor  5
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Medical Education Podcasts: Where We Are and Questions Unanswered

Justin Berk et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Jul.

Abstract

Social media, particularly podcasts, has become an influential modality within informal medical education. As podcasts continue to become more prevalent among learners of all types, clinical educators of the future must be able to help navigate this new pedagogy. Preliminary data demonstrates that medical students, residents, post-training physicians, and advanced practitioners all utilize podcasts for their own benefit. New data is discussed in the setting of the current literature on podcasting and important questions remain to determine how this new form of learning can and will be integrated into formal and informal medical curriculum.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors acknowledge their intellectual property COI: JB, MW, and PW as producers of The Curbsiders podcast; ST as producer of the CoreIM podcast; and RC as producer of the American College of Physician’s Annals on Call podcast.

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Demographics of The Curbsiders mailing list subscribers (n = 10,089).
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