InfectoCast: A Digital Ecosystem for Infectious Diseases Education and Science Communication in Brazil
Klinger Soares Faíco-Filho·Carolina Larocca Santos·João Antonio Gonçalves Garreta Prats·William Dunke de Lima·Jordan Monteiro Pinheiro·Eusebio Lino dos Santos Junior
Abstract Background Digital platforms have expanded access to continuing medical education (CME), with podcasts and social media increasingly used as asynchronous learning resources. However, most established digital medical education initiatives operate primarily in English, creating linguistic and contextual barriers for professionals in non-Anglophone settings. Infectious diseases (ID) require frequent updating, and access to structured ID-focused CME in middle-income countries such as Brazil