Purpose: Podcasts as a mobile learning platform to augment surgical expertise and dialogue have been embraced by many surgical educators and learners as an emerging educational platform. The origins, aims and utilisation of surgical podcasts are reviewed. Methodology: A search using the keywords “surgery” AND “podcast” in the PubMed database found 639 results with titles and abstracts screened to identify and review 28 relevant articles. Results: This narrative review explores podcast availability for diverse surgical audiences and appraises their aims, audiences, structures, content, benefits and weaknesses, implementation and educational value. Conclusion: Finally this review presents and synthesises how to implement podcasts into training and clinical practice to advance professional development and surgical education.