If you don’t know already, 2024 was the year of the podcasts. Podcasts have truly democratized content on the internet as anyone with a microphone can record, publish, and easily distribute episodes to anyone interested in the topic. Whether it is sport, politics, science, health, medicine, cars…just about any topic you can think of probably has several podcasts discussing it at any given time. And the number of podcasts and listeners continue to grow exponentially. In fact, podcasts outnumber audio books by a factor of 6 to 1.
Northwest AHEC began the Healthcare Insights in Northwest North Carolina podcast over 5 years ago and now has over 100 episodes published. We began creating episodes that cover learning objectives and created the Podcast CE Learning Series which now has 6 episodes that offer CE credit for listening. Once you complete an episode, you can take a short post-test and claim an hour of CE credit. This means you can listen while doing your favorite physical activity – walking, working out, yard work, cleaning, cooking…whatever you like to do that doesn’t require a mental load so you can direct your attention to the conversation about timely and relevant topics to your healthcare discipline. There are so many podcasts competing for your attention, so why not get credit for your time by listening to one of ours?!
We recently added two new episodes that discuss disparities in metabolic health – specifically kidney disease – and social media effects on mental health. Check out these and other topics covered in our Podcast CE Learning Series here: https://go.northwestahec.wakehealth.edu/podcastce
We look forward to adding new episodes to the series in 2025. If you have a topic or guest that you feel would make a great learning opportunity, please email Andrew Brewer, host of Healthcare Insights in Northwest North Carolina podcast at abrewer@wakehealth.edu