Medical Education Podcasts

Factors predicting identity as educators and openness to improve - interview with Abigail Snook

This exploratory study examines the extent to which perceived connectedness and received appreciation predicted identity as a medical (health care science) educator and openness to improve in tenure‐track and sessional faculty members.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13909

Interview with John Barber and Sophie Park: Facilitators and barriers to teaching undergraduate medical students in general practice

The authors demonstrate the marginalisation of primary care‐based teaching and propose a novel explanation rooted in CoP theory.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13882

‘Waiting in the wings’; Lived experience at the threshold of clinical practice - Niamh Coakley's Interview

The hidden curriculum is seen to shape new medical graduates’ understanding of the expectations of them as doctors in ways that
inspire dysfunctional strategies to meet those expectations.
Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13899

Recruiting expertise: how surgical trainees engage supervisors and regulate learning - Patrick Nieboer and Mike Huiskes' Interview

Trainees' success at drawing upon the expertise of their supervisors plays a substantial role in determining the learning benefits derived from clinical encounters. This paper outlines four types of practice students use.
Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13822

Identifying coaching skills to improve feedback use in post-graduate medical education - Heather Armson's Interview

Armson et al. explore the coaching skills required to enhance resident acceptance of feedback - a combination of process and content skills that must be carefully selected depending on the needs of the particular resident.
Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13818

Simulation-based education for novices: Complex learning tasks promote reflective practice - Marie-Laurence Tremblay's Interview

While complex learning tasks in simulation-based training are more cognitively challenging and make novices more prone to generating
mistakes, they are considered more valuable learning experiences from the trainees' perspective.
Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13748

Interview with Chantal van Andel - Broadly sampled assessment reduces ethnicity‐related differences in clinical grades

Van Andel et al. demonstrate that ethnicity-related differences in clinical grades can be reduced using multiple assessors,
multiple assessments and multiple evaluation moments.
Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13790

Emotion recognition in medical students: effects of facial appearance and care schema activation

Interview with Valentina Colonnello
The authors demonstrate that medical students’ emotion recognition is affected by the extent to which faces appear
trustworthy; such bias, however, could be overcome by techniques that activate students' "care schema".
Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13760

Is research on professional identity formation biased? Early insights from a scoping review and metasynthesis

Interview with Rebecca Volpe
While Professional Identity Formation is a well established construct, this paper questions the extent to which
its conceptualization might suffer from sociocultural bias, thereby disadvantaging trainees from diverse populations.
Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13781

John Boulet Interview - What we measure … and what we should measure in medical education

What are we assessing and what should we be assessing? The ongoing tension regarding which competencies are required for patient care and which are known to be assessable in an effective and efficient manner.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13652