I thought about a podcast for about 18 months before I ever got started. One of my pediatric emergency medicine mentors has a great podcast (PEMCurrents and PEMBlog), so he was helpful in the planning stages. My husband finally pushed me to get it started when he gave me a podcasting microphone for my first Mother's Day present. Coincidentally, it was during the pandemic lockdown where my students were restricted from clinical to stay safe, but they still needed the practical bedside application of our didactic content to build their competency in pediatrics. I knew there was a place for the practical application of evidence-based practice in a conversational way that could help them build skills that were necessary at the bedside. This plays out in the style of each episode.

For anyone who has met me, you know that the cadence of my speech is much different from the podcast. It is filled with pregnant pauses and long, drawn-out syllables. That's difficult to listen to. The script also allows me to stick to the topic of conversation. My students can attest that I'm well known for my tangents. Last, and certainly the most important, is that I use a script so that I can do research in the current literature and cite my references. Each script has in-text citations that I use to stay accountable to the content. I pass the research along to the listeners in the show notes and references.

The Peds NP created a new, unprecedented peer review process in 2024 that combines work from the METRIQ collaborative with good old-fashioned journal submissions.

First, completed episodes undergo a desk edit by the host. Next the episodes receives a semi-blind peer review using a modified rMETRIQ tool.

Episodes are edited based on reviewer feedback and returned to reviewers for a repeat review (if needed).

You can read all about our peer review process here.

It depends. Some episodes I can write in a few short hours. While others can take well over 40 hours for the script alone. It all depends on how well I know the topic and whether I am collaborating with a co-author or undergoing peer review.

Once I'm ready to record, it only takes a few hours to produce the final product. I'm meticulous about final wordsmithing, tone, and intonation and have been known to delete a completed episode because I "felt funny" about it. Then I use multiple software programs to create a more crisp product, post to the host, and disseminate to podcastland.

Browse all of the old episodes and show notes on the Show Notes page.

You can also use the search bar at the Podbean site to find specific episodes on topics of interest.

I'm picky! And it depends on my mood.

For pediatric health care: TeamPeds Talks by NAPNAP, Pediatrics on Call by the AAP, PemCurrents by Brad Sobolewski

For parenting: Good Inside with Dr. Becky (no relation)

For travel: This American Life from NPR

For kids: Magic of Disney Storytelling, Work it out wombats by PBS, Spanish stories for kids