Medical education podcasts may provide quality clinical knowledge, mentorship
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Key takeaways:
- General trauma surgery podcast episodes provided excellent quality clinical education and mentorship content, according to a study.
- However, 60% of episodes lacked disclosures for conflicts of interest.
According to published results, trauma surgery podcast episodes provide quality clinical education and mentorship. However, conflicts of interest were not disclosed in many episodes.
Asma Altaf Hussain Merchant, MBBS, and colleagues performed a cross-sectional study of 55 podcast episodes that covered clinical knowledge or mentorship regarding general trauma surgery and were available globally on Google, Apple and Spotify platforms as of May 31, 2023. Merchant and colleagues used a 10-item Delphi consensus checklist to assess the credibility, design and quality of educational content for each episode.
Among all episodes, Merchant and colleagues noted 100% were published after 2014; 85% were hosted by men; 91% were published in the U.S. and 80% focused on clinical knowledge.
Overall, Merchant and colleagues deemed all 55 episodes had excellent quality of content and design. However, they noted 20% of episodes rated poorly on credibility and 60% of episodes lacked disclosures for conflicts of interest.
“We believe that digitized education in the form of podcasts has added immense value to medical learning,” Merchant and colleagues wrote in the study. “However, it is important to determine its legitimacy and quality to ascertain the dissemination of proper information. Standardization of podcast format is also important to ensure the credibility of future podcasts in medicine.”
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