A Podcast About Podcasts: Podcasts as Educational Tools for Providers (and Patients)

Dr. Chino welcomes Dr. Vivek Patel and Dr. Eleonora Teplinsky to discuss a recent article in JCO OP that reported a podcast-based curriculum could improve knowledge and comfort with common education topics for oncology fellows.

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Dr. Fumiko Chino: Hello, and welcome to Put Into Practice, the podcast for JCO Oncology Practice. I am Dr. Fumiko Chino, an assistant professor in Radiation Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center with a research focus on access, affordability, and equity.

There are over 450 million podcasts available today, and online audio consumption continues to rise year after year. In the US alone, over 200 million people have listened to online audio in the last month, and health and fitness remains one of the most popular categories. Podcast audiences range from the lay public to patients with cancer to providers, with the dual goal to both entertain and inform. A recent randomized control trial published in JCO OP reported that a podcast-based curriculum could improve knowledge and comfort with common education topics for oncology fellows.

I am happy to welcome two guests today to discuss the role of podcasts to improve information sharing. They are both podcast hosts, making this ASCO's first podcast about podcasts.

Dr. Vivek Patel, MD, is an assistant professor and APD at Vanderbilt University with a treatment focus on blood cancers. He co-founded the Fellow on Call podcast in 2021 to fill a perceived gap in high quality, free, online medical education content in Hem-Onc. The podcast provides the fundamentals, core concepts, and important management approaches in an easily accessible, asynchronous learning platform. He is the first author of the JCO OP manuscript, "Education Impact of a Podcast Curriculum for Hematology-Oncology Fellows," which was simultaneously published with his oral presentation at the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Dr. Eleonora Teplinsky, MD, FASCO, is the Head of Breast and Gynecological Medical Oncology at Valley Health System and a clinical assistant professor at Mount Sinai. She is the host of the Interlude podcast, founded in 2018 with the goal to promote support, inspiration, kno