Using Mental Health Podcasts for Public Education
This article first appeared in Academic Psychiatry. Wills, C.D. Using Mental Health Podcasts for Public Education. Acad Psychiatry 44, 621–623 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-020-01268-z
Advances in medical and technological knowledge have changed psychiatry graduate medical education. Residents are required to learn and apply volumes of complex information and to become proficient in clinical service delivery to meet the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) core competency requirements in psychiatry [1]. The information gleaned from didactic education, supervision, reading, observation, practicing, collaborative communication, and other education modalities facilitates building and refining a skillset that is a prerequisite for independent practice [2]. Unfortunately, the growing body of professional resources, including medical literature, makes it challenging, at best, to produce well-rounded physician/scholars in an increasingly complex society.