Those podcasts have proven that the format works—and that people are catching on quickly. According to new research from the Pew Research Center, one in three Americans have listened to a podcast, and the number of people who have listened to a podcast in the last month has doubled since 2008.
How to Listen and Share
I hope you’ll join their ranks today. Here’s how:
- Visit the “Before the White Coat” website, www.beforethewhitecoat.org.
- iTunes users can subscribe by searching “Before the White Coat” in the podcast section of iTunes.
- And listeners using other podcast apps can either search for “Before the White Coat” or find details on the podcast website.
This is a new project for SHM, and I hope you’ll tell us what you think. You can tweet your reaction at @SHMLive—use the #B4theWC hashtag.
Finally, if you like it, I hope you’ll share it with friends, colleagues, and others in medicine.
As always, thank you for being an active part of the hospital medicine movement. I hope you’ll enjoy this newest piece of it.
Larry Wellikson is CEO of the Society of Hospital Medicine.