Podcast Series "Before the White Coat" Explores Early Lives of Hospitalists

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.