Rahul Damania, MD
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia
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Carrie Price
Health Professions librarian
Cook Library of Towson University, Maryland, United States
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Jocelyn Grunwell, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Emory University/Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Egleston
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Pradip Kamat, MBA, MD, FAAP,FCCM
Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia
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Title: Future of Pediatric Critical Care Remote Learning: Role and Reach of a Podcast Series
Introduction: Podcasts have become an integral part of Free Open Access Medical (FOAM) education. Our recent educational initiative, PICU Doc on Call, is a podcast dedicated to a myriad of core critical care topics focused on bedside clinical care. In this study, we created a two-part series of episodes focused on non-clinical topics – “Value of a Librarian in Pediatric Intensive Care Education” and “How to Read and Critically Review a Manuscript.” We hypothesized that the download reach and user engagement of non-clinical educational topics would be less than other core clinical topics.
Methods: We created two audio-based podcast episodes over a span of two weeks; they were entitled “Value of a Librarian in Pediatric Intensive Care Education” and “How to Read and Critically Review a Manuscript.” Each episode focused on evidenced-based-medicine (EBM) skills for aspiring intensivists and featured guest experts in a Q&A format. Podcasts were published on social media platforms, and available for listening on multiple digital platforms. Consistent with prior episodes, a portable document format with show notes of the entire podcast was available for each episode. Data were analyzed for frequency of downloads and geographic location using Captivate FM statistics.
Results: The podcast “Value of a Librarian in Pediatric Intensive Care Education” was approximately 20-minutes in duration and had over 300 downloads in the first 24 days. “How to Read and Critically Review a Manuscript” was 24-minutes in duration and had 181 downloads in first 3 days of posting on the digital platforms. Non-clinical episodes represented 9% of the PICU Doc on Call podcasts. Of the 8,132 downloads in the past six-months these two podcasts represented 5.6% of total downloads. The combined non-clinical episodes had a faster download rate within the first 24 hours of posting (196) versus clinical-based episodes (156).
Conclusion: Non-clinical educational topics had a widespread reach within the first 24 hours compared to clinical-based episodes. This FOAM-based podcast intervention highlights the need integration of non-clinical topics focused on EBM into Pediatric Critical Care Medicine education. Further work should assess podcast reach and the impact of non-clinical topics on bedside management.