Podcasting for Medical Professionals

Podcasting as a source of medical education is over eighteen years old and has proven to be a convenient, popular and mainstream tool for providers of all training levels. Medical educators are now thinking of podcasting as a widely-used source of education for trainees today. There is no manual or text that exists today to provide step-by-step instruction on how to take a medical podcast from an idea to a finished audio product. This book is that practical guide to podcast creation for health care professionals in any field of medicine.

This text begins by reviewing medical podcasting and its impact on medicine, giving readers a history of the medium. Next, it outlines how to hone your idea for a podcast from something you envision, to something that will be a meaningful contribution to medical education. It then lets you know best practices for content creation and how to ensure your content is high-quality and evidenced-based. This leads to a review of the technical tools needed for recording, editing, hosting, and analytics. It explores common challenges in podcasting and their solutions, as well as novel approaches to podcasting including artificial intelligence. It ends with a description of how to incorporate medical podcasting into a teaching program or academic career.

Comprised of fifteen chapters, Podcasting for Medical Professionals provides learning objectives, definitions, keywords and key readings. The intended audience is the podcasting novice while the content is also a valuable resource to those with some podcasting experience, who are looking to grow their podcasting skills. It also helps readers that may have engaged with non-medical podcasts and are interested in transitioning to using podcasts for medical education. Written from a multidisciplinary group of authors, this first of its kind book ensures that readers can create a high-quality podcast, evaluate the quality of podcasts they use for their own medical education, curate podcasts into existing medical education curricula, and/or pitch their own academic expertise to medical education podcasts.