title: A Survey of Emergency Medicine Residents' Use of Educational Podcasts.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Emergency medicine (EM) educational podcasts have become increasingly popular. Residents spend a greater percentage of their time listening to podcasts than they do using other educational materials. Despite this popularity, research into podcasting in the EM context is sparse. We aimed to determine EM residents' consumption habits, optimal podcast preferences, and motivation for listening to EM podcasts.
  
  
  METHODS
  We created a survey and emailed it to EM residents at all levels of training at 12 residencies across the United States from September 2015 to June 2016. In addition to demographics, the 20-question voluntary survey asked questions exploring three domains: habits, attention, and motivation. We used descriptive statistics to analyze results.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 605 residents invited to participate, 356 (n= 60.3%) completed the survey. The vast majority listen to podcasts at least once a month (88.8%). Two podcasts were the most popular by a wide margin, with 77.8% and 62.1% regularly listening toEmergency Medicine: Reviews and Perspectives(EM:RAP) and theEMCrit Podcast, respectively; 84.6% reported the ideal length of a podcast was less than 30 minutes. Residents reported their motivation to listen to EM podcasts was to "Keep up with current literature" (88.5%) and "Learn EM core content" (70.2%). Of those responding, 72.2% said podcasts change their clinical practice either "somewhat" or "very much."
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of this survey study suggest most residents listen to podcasts at least once a month, prefer podcasts less than 30 minutes in length, have several motivations for choosing podcasts, and report that podcasts change their clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: University of Washington, Department of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, Seattle, Washington.
authors.forename: Jeff
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Riddell
authors.affiliation: New York University, Department of Emergency Medicine, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Anand
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Swaminathan
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Antonio, Texas.
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Antonio, Texas.
authors.forename: Abdiwahab
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mohamed
authors.affiliation: University of Kentucky, Department of Emergency Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky.
authors.forename: Rob
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.affiliation: Greater San Antonio Emergency Physicians, San Antonio, Texas.
authors.forename: Salim R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Rezaie
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D014481:United States; D057211:Webcasts as Topic