Note from the Associate Editorial Director: Closing out another podcast year
by Linnea Archibald
Cohosting, producing, and editing the ACDIS Podcast was never on my professional bingo card, but over the last few years, it has become one of my favorite things we get to do here at ACDIS. As we approach the end of 2025 and our last couple of episodes of the year, I wanted to take a moment to look back on where we’ve been this year.
Since 2023, we have offered 0.5 ACDIS CEU per podcast episode and this year, we continued to do so. Based on member feedback, we also extended the CEU period for each episode to the Sunday night following the episode’s release (as opposed to Friday night), giving listeners four full days to claim their 0.5 CEU. If you took advantage of all those episode CEU opportunities, you earned 13.5 ACDIS CEUs just from the podcast this year.
For those keeping track, that’s 45% of your CEU requirements to recertify your CCDS or CCDS-O credential since credential holders are required to submit 30 CEUs every two years.
Beyond the CEU opportunities it offered, when we enter 2026, the ACDIS Podcast will have brought 27 episodes to our listeners and 34 guests from all areas of the CDI profession. Though the CEU period for each of these episodes has closed (except for our final two episodes still to come in 2025), there’s still plenty to be learned from our guests and I’d encourage you to catch up on anything you may have missed or topics of particular interest to your CDI practice.
- January 1 | Advisory Board series: Second-level reviews
- January 15 | Risk adjustment
- January 29 | 2024 CDI Salary Survey: Benefits, staffing, remote work, and more!
- February 12 | Pediatric deep dive: NICU reviews
- February 26 | Advisory Board series: Mortality reviews
- March 12 | Advisory Board series: Patient safety indicators
- March 26 | Fostering diversity, inclusion, and equity in CDI
- April 9 | Employee engagement in a hybrid world
- April 23 | CDI versus coding: Celebrating HIP Week 2025
- May 7 | Stress and burnout in CDI
- May 21 | Managing change
- June 4 | Advisory Board series: Acute skin failure
- June 18 | Listener questions: Queries, coding shortages, AI, mortality reviews!
- July 2 | Improving CDI team culture
- July 16 | Outpatient CDI: Substance use disorders
- July 30 | Clinical deep dive: Sepsis
- August 13 | Tools for provider and CDI engagement
- August 27 | Advisory Board series: Elixhauser comorbidities
- September 10 | 2025 CDI Week sneak peek: Productivity metrics
- September 24 | Developing an appealability score
- October 8 | Outpatient CDI FAQs
- October 22 | Malnutrition quality improvement: A case study
- November 5 | Problem list sequencing
- November 19 | KPIs and analytics
- December 3 | Engaging providers in a remote environment
- December 17 | Advisory Board series: Denials
- December 31 | SOFA-2 criteria
As we close out the year, I hope you’ll tune in for our December 17 and December 31 episodes and claim your 0.5 CEU for each. You can sign up for notifications about new episodes by subscribing to our free weekly eNewsletter, CDI Strategies. If you miss it, don’t worry: we’ll be back in the new year with even more great episodes!
We say it every other week on the podcast, but please do send us your ideas, topic requests, and feedback on the show. We would love to continue to serve your needs well in 2026! Send us an email at info@acdis.org anytime. The email address goes directly to our team and we love to interact with our members personally, so don’t be shy!
Until then: happy listening, happy holidays, and take care, everyone!
Editor’s note: Archibald is the associate editorial director of publications and membership at ACDIS. Contact her at linnea.archibald@hcpro.com.