authorea Authorea 10.15200/winn.144720.08769 The Quality Checklists for Health Professions Blogs and Podcasts Colmers Isabelle N
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada
Paterson Quinten S
College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon SK, Canada
Lin Michelle
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco CA
Thoma Brent
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon SK, Canada
0000-0001-6104-462X Chan Teresa M
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton ON
17 4 2023 This preprint is available at https://doi.org/10.15200/winn.144720.08769

Blog and podcast use is rising among learners in the health professions. The lack of a standardized method to assess the quality of these resources prompted a research agenda aimed at solving this problem. Through a rigorous research process, a list of 151 quality indicators for blogs and podcasts was formed and subsequently refined to elicit the most important quality indicators. These indicators are presented as Quality Checklists to assist with quality appraisal of medical blogs and podcasts.