Medical Education Podcasts

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

The social construction of teacher and learner identities in medicine and surgery - Audio paper with Peter Cantillon

Cantillon et al. explore how clinical teaching and learning are uniquely shaped by the specialty-specific cultures of postgraduate training.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14727

Applicants’ perception of fit to residency programmes in the video-interview era: A large multidisciplinary survey - Interview with Jorge G. Zárate Rodriguez

This paper offers examination of how residency applicants assess fit to the programs at which they interview during the virtual recruitment era, showing that female and minority applicants perceive poorer fit.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14729

Who’s on your team? Specialty identity and inter-physician conflict during admissions - Interview with Caitlin Schrepel and Ashley E. Amick

The authors explored how group alliance, or specialty identity, primes conversations between physicians in moments of conflict, emphasizing the importance of uniting as one team to care for the patient.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14715

International medical graduates’ experiences before and after migration: A meta-ethnography of qualitative studies - Audio paper with Mo Al-Haddad

In this systematic review, the authors present 5 concepts as a framework for understanding the shared and unique experiences of IMGs worldwide that could, thereby, be used to guide needs assessment and policy.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14708