Medical Education Podcasts

Student perspectives on programmatic assessment in a large medical programme: A critical realist analysis - Interview with Chris Roberts and Priya Khanna

Using critical realism, this study reports on how and why balancing the interplay between learner and faculty agency, assessment structures, and the cultural system is key to developing new assessment practices.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14807

Making prospective entrustment decisions: Knowing limits, seeking help and defaulting - Interview with Daniel J. Schumacher

Schumacher et al highlight how clinical competency/entrustment committee members place considerable value on trainees knowing their limits and seeking help when making decisions about entrusting trainees in the future.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14797

Normalising disclosure or reinforcing heroism? An exploratory critical discourse analysis of mental health stigma in medical education - Audio paper with Javeed Sukhera

In their exploration of mental health stigma, Sukhera et al. found tension between professionals' heroic public disclosures of vulnerability and private contexts that reward and expect perfectionism.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14790

A phenomenological exploration of the impact of COVID-19 on the medical education community - Interview with Victoria Luong

This phenomenological study explored how members of the medical education community have experienced grief and relief through the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to critical reflections on how they want to live in the future.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14793

Health educators’ professional agency in negotiating their problem-based learning (PBL) facilitator roles: Q study - Interview with Xiangyun Du

Du et al. reveal high variation in participants' perceptions of professional agency, indicating a need for establishing a common understanding of PBL facilitation in context.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14792

‘Poorly relaxed women’: A situational analysis of pelvic examination learning materials for medical students - Audio paper with Sarah Towle

Pre-clinical learning materials on pelvic examination are found to under-represent specific populations, present limited patient preferences, and centre clinical authority over patient agency, undermining notions of patient centredness and cultural competence.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14737

The effect of a medical student on community preceptor productivity - Audio paper with Jess Hatfield

Hatfield et al. demonstrate that medical students do not reduce preceptor productivity when measured by number of patients seen per half-day, raising questions about healthcare organization financial policy.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14733

‘A whole lot of uncertainty’: A qualitative study exploring clinical medical students’ experiences of uncertainty stimuli - Interview with Georgina C. Stephens

Stephens et al. demonstrate that clinical medical students experience uncertainty in a wide variety of ways that often differ from the experiences of clinicians with more established knowledge and careers.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14743

Student engagement in undergraduate medical education: A scoping review - Interview with Salah Eldin Kassab

The authors explore medical student engagement by considering methods of measurement, drivers, and outcomes. Sensitivity and malleability to context appear paramount to better understanding this concept and creating hope for beneficial interventions.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14799

 

Role of faculty characteristics in failing to fail in clinical clerkships - Audio paper with Jennifer L. Swails

By analysing 50,120 medical student evaluations over 15 years, the authors found that the number of failing evaluations is decreasing over time. Senior faculty were more likely to document poor student performance than assistant professors.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14725