One of NephJC signature moves has been to adapt new technologies and communication techniques to delivering state of the art nephrology education. Podcasts, Visual Abstracts, Tweetorials. NephJC has been on the front of these waves. Clearly one of the most exciting and controversial new technologies is artificial intelligence and it is unclear what role it may play in the NephJC educational package. Our blogs and tweets are written entirely by human minds but it is inevitable that as AI becomes the spellcheck of the 2020s, that it will leach into all of our writing.

One AI tool that intrigues us is Google’s NotebookLM. This product can create podcasts from source documentation. We have done a couple of dry runs converting our blogs into novel, low-effort, podcasts with impressive results. So, at least for now, we plan on publishing a podcast before each chat. We are fact checking them before publication, but some mistakes may slip through. Please send you feedback, we want to know what you think of this. As always, the email is [email protected]

This will supplement and not replace Freely Filtered. One possible future move is to separate out both podcasts to individual feeds, but for now they will piggyback on each other.