Medical Education Podcasts

Doctors’ attitudes to maintenance of professional competence: A scoping review - Interview with Anél Wiese

This scoping review outlines doctors' mixed views on the processes used for maintenance of competence and highlights their implications for research and practice.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14678

Exploring how feedback reflects entrustment decisions using artificial intelligence - Audio paper with Brian C. Gin

Using natural language processing, Gin et al demonstrate how narrative feedback and entrustment decisions are intertwined, providing empirical evidence regarding how formative processes can help trainees achieve competencies.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14696

Determining influence, interaction and causality of contrast and sequence effects in objective structured clinical exams - Audio paper with Peter Yeates

Examiner DRIFT and contrast effects are well established effects in #AssessorCognition but how pronounced are they in real #OSCEs? Yeates et al found muted evidence and discuss why effects may vary between settings.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14713

Trust, power and learning in workplace‐based assessment: The trainee perspective - Interview with Damian J. Castanelli

The authors demonstrate that how trainees perceive their supervisors to use power influences their trust and their willingness to engage in assessment for learning in the workplace.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14631

“I might not fit that doctor image”: Ideal worker norms and women medical students - Interview with A. Emiko Blalock

Women students are seen to demonstrate knowledge of “ideal worker norms” very early in medical school; the authors explore how they made sense of norms and began to navigate the gendered organization of their chosen careers.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14709

Dealing with uncertainty in clinical reasoning: A threshold model and the roles of experience and task framing - Audio paper with Jennifer Stojan

Stojan et al. explore the role of uncertainty in clinical reasoning and demonstrate how testing and treatment threshold determinations vary with clinical experience.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14673

Dual and duelling purposes: An exploration of educators’ perspectives on the use of reflective writing to remediate professionalism in residency - Audio Paper with Tracy Moniz

For medical educators using reflective writing to remediate professionalism, this work suggests using it only for learning around professional identity and engaging residents in multiple writings over time with feedback and coaching.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14625

Longitudinal placements for trainee pharmacists: Learning whilst improving patient care - Interview with Hannah Kinsey

This paper highlights the importance of healthcare trainees acquiring membership within healthcare teams to enhance their learning experience, advance their professional development and improve patient care.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14684

Longitudinal training models for entrusting students with independent patient care?: A systematic review - Interview with Linda H. A. Bonnie

This work demonstrates how longitudinal rotation models can make an important contribution to the entrustment of patient care to students.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14607

Widening how we see the impact of culture on learning, practice and identity development in clinical environments - Audio paper with Dale Sheehan

Sheehan and Wilkinson focus on how learning is shaped by the physical environment, the interactions and behaviours of other health professionals, the systems in place to guide care, and culture to challenge beliefs about who 'holds' knowledge. Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14630