Understanding the Use and Perceived Impact of a Medical Podcast: Qualitative Study.

Autor: Malecki SL; Department of Internal Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada., Quinn KL; Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada., Zilbert N; Division of General Surgery, Trillium Health Partners, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada., Razak F; Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada., Ginsburg S; Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.; Wilson Centre for Research in Education, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada., Verma AA; Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada., Melvin L; Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: JMIR medical education [JMIR Med Educ] 2019 Sep 19; Vol. 5 (2), pp. e12901. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Sep 19.
DOI: 10.2196/12901
Abstrakt: Background: Although podcasts are increasingly being produced for medical education, their use and perceived impact in informal educational settings are understudied.
Objective: This study aimed to explore how and why physicians and medical learners listen to The Rounds Table (TRT), a medical podcast, as well as to determine the podcast's perceived impact on learning and practice.
Methods: Web-based podcast analytics were used to collect TRT usage statistics. A total of 17 medical TRT listeners were then identified and interviewed through purposive and convenience sampling, using a semistructured guide and a thematic analysis, until theoretical sufficiency was achieved.
Results: The following four themes related to podcast listenership were identified: (1) participants thought that TRT increased efficiency, allowing them to multitask, predominantly using mobile listening platforms; (2) participants listened to the podcast for both education and entertainment, or "edutainment"; (3) participants thought that the podcast helped them keep up to date with medical literature; and (4) participants considered TRT to have an indirect effect on learning and clinical practice by increasing overall knowledge.
Conclusions: Our results highlight how a medical podcast, designed for continuing professional development, is often used informally to promote learning. These findings enhance our understanding of how and why listeners engage with a medical podcast, which may be used to inform the development and evaluation of other podcasts.
(©Sarah L Malecki, Kieran L Quinn, Nathan Zilbert, Fahad Razak, Shiphra Ginsburg, Amol A Verma, Lindsay Melvin. Originally published in JMIR Medical Education (http://mededu.jmir.org), 19.09.2019.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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