Podcasting in Medical Education: How Long Should an Educational Podcast Be?

摘要

We were pleased to read guidance for the development of podcasts for graduate medical education (GME) in the July 2016 issue of the Journal of Graduate Medical Education . Ahn and colleagues~(~(1)) recommended a 10- to 20-minute format for a podcast, and we would like to expand on that recommendation and share additional input on style and format concerns.How long will trainees listen to an educational podcast? What is the ideal length for learning? Primary evidence may be lacking, but there appears to be a consensus that learner attention in lecture settings wanes after 10 minutes.~(~(2)) We recently shared our own 20-minute pilot podcast for telephone triage education with pediatrics residents to better evaluate format and length issues. We have done this subjectively using a survey and objectively using the YouTube (Google, San Bruno, CA) platform to record listening times.