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Welcome to FAMEcast! This preview episode introduces our faculty development podcast from the Center for Faculty Advancement, Mentoring, and Engagement at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Our podcast will support academic faculty at Ohio State and beyond as we strive to excel at patient care, teaching, research, and serving our institutions in administrative roles. Tune in as we cover expectations for the podcast and preview our first three episodes. Then, watch for “Mentoring and Coaching in Academic Medicine” to drop here on January 21, 2025. We hope you can join us!
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Introducing FAMEcast!
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[Dr Mike Patrick]
This episode of FAMEcast is brought to you by the Center for Faculty Advancement, Mentoring, and Engagement at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
Hello, everyone, and welcome to FAMEcast. It is a faculty development podcast from The Ohio State University College of Medicine, and more specifically, the Center for Faculty Advancement, Mentoring, and Engagement at Ohio State.
This is a preview episode. We’re actually launching the podcast in January of 2025. I’ll have more details for you later in the program.
So today is really an introduction and a welcome. We are excited to launch this brand-new faculty development podcast. So, what exactly does that mean? What is a faculty development podcast? Well, our target audience is faculty members involved in clinical care, teaching, research, and or administration in academic medicine.
Academic medical faculty have a lot on their plate. And I know this because I am one of them. I know there is always a ton on my plate.
The most obvious task for all of us is staying current in our field of practice. So, for me, that is pediatrics. Staying up to date is critical because we’re tasked with providing best-in-class care to our patients, and we are teaching medicine to lots of learners, from medical students to residents and fellows.
And so, you know, there are plenty of podcasts out there to help us stay current in our chosen field. In fact, I host and produce a podcast like that for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, which houses the Department of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. That podcast is called PediaCast CME.
It is a bi-monthly podcast, and we do offer free Category 1 CE and CME credit for a variety of pediatric providers, including physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, psychologists, social workers, and dentists. And again, in case you didn’t catch it, that is free Category 1 CE and CME credit. Shows and details are available for that podcast over at pediacastcme.org, and you can find all the episodes on the website and everywhere podcasts are found.
Simply search for PediaCast CME. I’ve been producing PediaCast CME for nearly 10 years, and I mention this because if you are a listener of that podcast, the format is going to be pretty similar for these programs, these episodes, just like we do for PediaCast CME, where it’s mostly interviews with guests who are experts in a particular area and very conversational. That podcast, we’ve had over 100 episodes, about just over half a million unique listeners across those episodes with an audience that spans all 50 U.S. states and over 100 countries.
80% of that audience is outside of Ohio, and 20% of those outside of Ohio are also outside of the United States. So, PediaCast CME reaches plenty of pediatric providers affiliated with Ohio State, but we also care about providers everywhere. And again, that podcast covers pediatric medicine.
In terms of an introduction and just giving you a little more background on my own experience, I also host and produce another podcast at Nationwide Children’s called PediaCast, without the CME, so plain PediaCast, if you will. And this one is a pediatric podcast for parents because we care about improving health literacy and supporting parents as they raise their children. We’ve been producing PediaCast for nearly 20 years, so we were really one of the very first medical podcasts in existence back in 2006.
And we’ve done over 500 episodes. In 2025, we’re beginning a mostly weekly editorial calendar, so we will have weekly shows of regular PediaCast. We’ve had over 4 million unique listeners on that podcast across all those episodes.
And like PediaCast CME, the audience spans the entire United States and over 100 countries. So, we have clinical pediatrics covered for providers on a PediaCast CME and pediatric health literacy for parents on plain PediaCast. And other areas of medicine have many podcasts of their own for continuing education of their providers and in support of health literacy for the general public.
Lots of medical podcasts out there these days. However, there is a large gap in the podcasting world as we consider academic medicine because academic faculty require more than just continuing medical education to stay current in our field. You know, we also require support in many other facets of our career, things like teaching, research, administration, mentoring, coaching, wellness.
And these are very important topics for medical school faculty, and they are topics that we plan to cover on this new bimonthly podcast presented by the Center for Faculty Advancement, Mentoring, and Engagement at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Now, that’s not to say that there are no other faculty development podcasts out there. There are some others, and they’re great podcasts.
But, you know, just like anything else, the more that we have in terms of options and diverse topics, the better we all are. And so, if you are involved in producing, posting, you know, the day-to-day activities of a faculty development podcast in the world of academic medicine, please reach out. I would love to connect with you and maybe share stories and notes on the podcasting world as it relates to medicine.
And of course, with this new podcast, we do have our own faculty in mind, but we also want to be useful in supporting academic faculty everywhere across the United States and around the world. This is all going to kick off on Tuesday, January 21st, 2025. So, mark your calendars and watch for our first episode to drop over at famecast.org. That’s the landing site.
I will also have a presence in Apple Podcasts, YouTube Podcasts. That’s the new Google Podcast Directory, by the way. They got rid of Google Podcasts, and now it’s YouTube Podcasts, but it’s the same place, just with a different name.
We’ll also be on Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and most other podcast apps for iOS and Android. Simply search for FAMEcast. We may not be there quite yet.
Just give us a little bit of time. We should populate, especially when we launch our first official episode again on Tuesday, January 21st, 2025. So, what topics are we covering in our first few episodes? It’s a great question, and I will be back with the answer right after this.
Welcome back to FAMEcast. So, what topics are we covering as we launch our new faculty development podcast, and what can you expect with each episode? So, let’s cover the expectations first. We’re planning on about a 30-minute show, 20 to 40 minutes, depending on the topic and sort of where the conversation goes.
The idea is that you’ll be able to listen to it while you’re doing some other activity that takes about a half an hour. So, that could include a commute to work or back home. It could be while you’re doing some chores around the house or out in the yard or you’re exercising.
We want to be useful, but as an audio podcast, we want you to also be productive in other aspects of your life, and audio podcasts certainly lend themselves well for that. Now, we are not offering Category 1 CME credit for this podcast like we do with PediaCast CME. However, your institution is welcome to include our content for their own faculty development activities and credit.
So, as an example, this isn’t necessarily something that is regulated on a state level. You know, with continuing medical education, we all have a responsibility to our state’s medical board, or if you’re another professional provider, whatever it is, the board that licenses or certifies you, they have their requirements at the state level, and we all have that. But then where things get a little bit different is in academic medicine, a lot of institutions have their own ideas and rules in place in terms of how you get faculty development credit.
So, as an example, in the Department of Pediatrics at Ohio State and Nationwide Children’s Hospital, we require two activities per year of faculty development for folks who are involved in teaching medical students, residents, and fellows. So, it’s really just administered, you know, internally. So, it’s not something that we are responsible to the state medical board for, but just within our institution.
A lot of institutions would love to have a center for faculty development and just don’t have the resources necessarily to do that. And so, that’s one of the reasons that we wanted to make this particular podcast available everywhere, not behind a paywall or hidden, you know, where you need a subscription or something in order to access it. So, wherever you are, if, you know, your institution would like to use our content for faculty development credit, you’re more than welcome to, as long as you keep track of that internally at your own place.
But if there are any questions, I would be more than happy to answer any. Maybe if you do have a director of faculty development or an education department at your institution, and you just want to kind of clue them into what we’re doing, and if they have any questions, please have them use the contact form at famecast.org. We would love to hear from your institution, and we would love to hear from you on that same contact form. If you have topic ideas related to faculty development, comments regarding our plan, suggestions for improving the show, really anything that’s on your mind, please reach out and engage with us.
We would love to connect. Reviews are also going to be really important as we move forward, especially given that we are a brand-new podcast with a practically non-existent marketing budget. Word of mouth is going to be key.
So, as we provide free best-in-class faculty development content for you, we would simply ask that, in return, you talk us up in your own sphere of influence, and that includes leaving us reviews wherever you get your podcasts. All right, so what can you expect with regard to content as we launch the show on January 21st, 2025? Episode one is going to be on mentoring and coaching in academic medicine. It’s going to be a broad overview because, really, you could do an entire multi-day conference on this topic.
I mean, literally, you could have a three-day conference on mentoring and coaching. So, we will be doing more specific topics related to mentoring and coaching to come as we move forward with the show. This first episode will be a sweeping overview of mentoring and coaching in academic medicine.
All of these episodes, as I mentioned, are going to be conversational, and we always get terrific guests for the podcasts that I’ve been affiliated with in my almost 20 years of podcasting. Dr. Kim Tartaglia is going to be our guest. She’s a professor of internal medicine and a hospitalist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
She also serves as director of teaching and learning and interim director of mentoring and engagement for FAME. Again, that’s the Center for Faculty Advancement, Mentoring, and Engagement at Ohio State. Episode two is going to be creating a professional mission statement, and this one will be with Dr. John Mahan.
He’s a professor of pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He’s former director of the Pediatric Residency Training Program at Ohio State and Nationwide Children’s Hospital, which is where I trained, by the way, and he was the director of my residency program when I trained in pediatrics. Gosh, that’s been like 30 years ago, which I’m sure would make him feel very old.
I won’t mention that on his episode. He is also the current director of the Center for Faculty Development at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. So that’ll be a terrific conversation as we think about creating a professional mission statement.
Why would you take the time to do that? How is it useful? How does it change over time? We’ll get into all of that in episode number two. And then episode number three is going to be on work-life harmony in academic medicine. Now you’ll notice I said harmony.
Most folks call it work-life balance, but the fact of the matter is oftentimes our responsibilities at work and at home are not balanced. Sometimes we have more to do at work, and sometimes it’s really, really important to offset that with periods of time when the focus is on life at home and with our family and friends and all of those things. And so, harmony is really the best way to put it because on any given day, one thing may, you know, have more, I don’t want to say importance, but more responsibilities, more tasks, more things to do than the other.
And the key is really striking a balance that enables us to be at our best and perform our best whether we are at work or at home. And so, work-life harmony is going to be the topic of conversation for episode three. That’s going to be with Dr. Jeff Caterino.
He is a professor and chair of emergency medicine at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. So, stay tuned for that conversation. And I can tell you as a pediatric emergency medicine physician, I know full well the stress that can go along with that job.
And, you know, any field within academic medicine can be particularly stressful. But I think looking at it through the lens of an emergency medicine physician and a chair of that department, again, Dr. Jeff Caterino will be very, very helpful. So, stay tuned for that conversation.
That one will be coming up in February of 2025. So those will be our first three topics, mentoring and coaching in academic medicine, creating a professional mission statement and work-life harmony. Now, we are working on the remainder of the 2025 editorial calendar.
And as I mentioned before, if you have an idea for a faculty development topic, please do reach out. We’d love to hear from you by way of the contact form over at Famecast.org. All right. That almost wraps up our FAMEcast preview.
Let’s take another quick break, and then I will be back to sum up the important details right after this. We are back with just enough time to say thanks once again to all of you for taking time out of your day and making this FAMEcast preview a part of it. Really do appreciate that.
Don’t forget, you can find our real episodes, episode number one, beginning January 21st, 2025. And you’ll be able to find that really wherever podcasts are found. That includes the Apple and YouTube podcast apps, iHeartRadio, Spotify and most other podcast apps for iOS and Android.
We may not be in all of those places right on January 21st. I’m hoping that we will, but we don’t have total control over when that happens. But certainly, our feeds will be submitted and hopefully we will be in all of those places on January 21st or shortly thereafter.
You will definitely be able to find our episodes at the landing site for this program, Famecast.org. We will eventually have an archive of all of our episodes moving forward. There will be show notes for each of the episodes, our terms of use agreement, and again, that handy contact page if you would like to suggest a future topic for the program. Reviews are going to be really, really, really helpful wherever you get your podcasts, especially for a new podcast.
That word of mouth and positive reviews goes a long way to building an audience. And of course, we always appreciate when you share your thoughts about the show. If there is something that bothers you about the program, I would just suggest, especially being a new podcast and not really having a lot of reviews out there, we always want to improve and to do our best and really be useful to the audience.
So, if there’s something that you feel like we’re not doing a great job, please consider talking to us about it through the contact page first. And then we can either explain why we’re doing something a particular way, or it may be like, oh, that is a really good idea. We should do that.
So again, not that we’re not that we’re looking to not have any bad reviews in the podcast directories, but especially with a brand-new podcast, you want folks to have a positive experience. And truly from the bottom of my heart, we really do want to do a bang-up job for all of you. So, if you have suggestions or comments, again, please let us know.
And if you’re happy with the way things are going, please consider leaving a review wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks again for stopping by. And until next time, which will be January 21st, 2025, this is Dr. Mike saying, stay focused, stay balanced, and keep reaching for the stars.
So long, everybody.
