Medical Education Podcasts

The role of the assessment policy in the relation between learning and performance - Rob Kickert Interview

This study indicates that student learning and performance are sensitive to changes in characteristics of the assessment policy, such as higher stakes and higher performance standards.

Read the accompanying article to this new podcast: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13487/full

Making the leap to medical education: a qualitative study of medical educators’ experiences - Julie Browne interview

Drawing on transition theory as an analytical model, the authors show that success in making the transition to educator identity is dependent on factors relating to self, situation, support and strategy.

Read the accompanying article to this new podcast: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13470/full

Current efforts in medical education to incorporate national health priorities - Manisha Nair interview

Reflecting on the Edinburgh Declaration, this podcast discusses important challenges in relation to the role of medical education in meeting current national health priorities.

Read the accompanying article to this new podcast: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13395/full

Representation scaffolds improve diagnostic efficiency in medical students - Leah Braun interview

Investigates the effectiveness of using scaffolds for case representation on the diagnostic accuracy and efficiency of medical students.
Read the accompanying article to this new podcast: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13355/full

Comparing alternative and traditional dissemination metrics in medical education - Chris Ramnanan interview

Looks at alternative metrics (Twitter/Mendley) as measures of the impact of medical education scholarship
Read the accompanying article to this new podcast:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13359/full

Goals of medical students participating in scholarly concentration programmes - Rachel Wolfson interview

An investigation of the importance of both process-focused and product-focused goals among first-year students participating in SC programmes.

Read the accompanying article to this new podcast:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13342/full

Effective teaching of manual skills to physiotherapy students - Marco Testa interview

The first study to evaluate the effectiveness of two different skills laboratory teaching approaches for physiotherapy students.

Read the accompanying article to this new podcast:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13347/full

The economic cost of failure in clinical education: a multi-perspective analysis - Jonathan Foo interview

A timely study which looks at the costs of clinical education failure - where the costs arise, where they are borne and importantly considers potential intervention and support strategies that can be put in place.
Read the accompanying article to this new podcast:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13266/full

'Why not you?’ Discourses of widening access on UK medical school websites - Kirsty Alexander interview

Takes a unique approach to explore how aims of widening access to medical schools are put into practice through communications and messages on medical school websites

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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13264/full

Should learners reason one step at a time? A randomised trial of two diagnostic scheme designs - Sarah Blissett interview

The first study to compare different diagnostic scheme layout designs to estabish if there is an optimal format in order to improve diagnostic accuracy.

Read the accompanying article:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13221/full