Medical Education Podcasts

Towards equitable learning environments for medical education: Bias and the intersection of social identities - Audio paper with Naike Bochatay and Nadia M. Bajwa

The authors share a vision for addressing bias and inequities in medical education by embracing the intersection of multiple social identities. Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14602

Thinking about social power and hierarchy in medical education - Interview with Meredith Vanstone

Meredith Vanstone and Lawrence Grierson reflect on the concepts social power and hierarchy for medical education, highlighting the fluidity, multiplicity, and bi-directional nature of hierarchy.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14659 

Self in medicine: Determinants of physician well-being and future directions in improving wellness - Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn

The author explores how physician wellness concepts have changed over time, factors affecting physician well-being, interventions, and the application of quality improvement methods to guide future directions.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14671

Evaluation in health professions education—Is measuring outcomes enough? - Interview with Louise Allen

The authors explore the concept of situation by reflecting the importance of shifting evaluation from focusing on outcome measurement to investigation of contributing factors.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14654

The potential of narrative analysis for HPE research, highlighting five analytic lenses - Audio paper with Abigail Konopasky

The authors present five narrative analytic lenses for researchers in health professions education, highlighting both the promise and partiality of narrative analysis. Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14597

Gender bias in resident evaluations: Natural language processing and competency evaluation - Audio paper with Jane Andrews

Gender bias was explored in resident evaluations from attendings by analyzing thousands of written evaluations over six years; none was found #NLP #MedEd #medtwitter. Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14593

‘Nurses whisper.’ Identities in nurses’ patient safety narratives of nurse-trainee doctors’ interactions- interview with Ray Samuriwo

This study sheds new light on the identities experienced nurses construct in their narratives of interactions with trainee doctors, thus facilitating learning in practice about key tenets of medical competence.
Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14575

A multi-pronged, antiracist approach to optimize equity in medical school admissions- interview with Sandra Quezada

The authors describe how a multi-pronged, antiracist approach improved the diversity of the students that matriculated to their medical school.
Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14589

Social media in undergraduate medical education: A systematic review - Audio paper with Eliot Rees

Two sides of the coin: With this systematic review, the authors synthesize evidence demonstrating how #SoMe can improve outcomes despite ongoing questions about professionalism. Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14567

Exploring how physician educators approach politically charged topics with learners - Interview with Zareen Zaidi & Bridget C. O‘Brien

Noting the lack of clarity in medical education about how to approach politically charged topics with learners, the authors provide a framework to facilitate conversation and make the range of approaches more visible. Read the accompanying article to this podcast here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14570