Medical Education Podcasts

Love and breakup letter methodology: A new research technique for medical education - Audio Paper with William Laughey

The authors critically appraise “Love and Breakup Letter” methodology, illustrating its value to medical education research through illustrative case studies.

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‘I found myself a despicable being!’: Medical students face disturbing moral dilemmas - Audio Paper with Marco de Carvalho-Filho

Exploring the nature of medical students' moral dilemmas in clinical practice, Ribeiro et al. expose how memorable, multidimensional, impactful, and emotionally intense these experiences are.

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You never forget your first? Impact of interview timing on institutional rank order - Interview with Brian Hanrahan

Hanrahan et al. examine 31 years worth of data from 5 residency programs and demonstrate a temporal relationship between interview date and applicant rank; earlier interviewees tend to rank higher.

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Meritocratic and fair? The discourse of UK and Australia's widening participation policies - Interview with Maeve Coyle

While the UK and Australia recognise tensions between local and global goals, Australia appears to prioritise community values and ‘nation building’ whereas UK discourses focus on social mobility and individual responsibility.

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Is two a crowd? A qualitative analysis of dyad learning in an OBGYN clinical clerkship - Audio Paper with Laerke Noerholk

The authors demonstrate that collaborative learning between pairs of medical students is perceived and valued differently by different stakeholders in the clinical setting, particularly with respect to the patient perspective.

Read the accompanying article to this audio paper: Is two a crowd? A qualitative analysis of dyad learning in an OBGYN clinical clerkship.

Scoping reviews in medical education: A scoping review - Audio Paper with Lauren Maggio

Over the last 20 years, the number of #MedEd reviews has grown >2600% (4200% for scoping reviews). To explore this growth, Maggio et al. conducted a scoping review of 101 scoping reviews across 14 journals.

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An act of performance: Exploring residents’ decision-making processes to seek help - Interview with Iris Jansen

Noting that interviewed residents described asking for help as an act of performance, Jansen et al. use a sociocultural lens to address the role of the healthcare team and learning environment in help-seeking.

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Qualitative analysis of medical student reflections on the implicit association test - Interview with Cristina Gonzalez

Gonzalez et al. demonstrate a deep chasm between clinical students' acceptance of #implicitbias and identification of strategies to mitigate such bias without targeted instruction.

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Incentives for clinical teachers: On why their complex influences should lead us to proceed with caution - Audio Paper with Katherine Wisener

When do incentives backfire? Wisener et al. explore how schemes intended to support clinicians in their teaching roles should be crafted with care given their complex – and at times surprising – influences on motivation.

Read the accompanying article to this audio paper: Incentives for clinical teachers: On why their complex influences should lead us to proceed with caution.

Thinking with two brains: Student perspectives on the presentation of race in pre-clinical medical education - Audio Paper with Marcus Mosley

Mosley et al. demonstrate that non-white medical students experience cognitive dissonance around the presentation of race and race-disease associations in medical education.

Read the accompanying article to this audio paper: Thinking with two brains: Student perspectives on the presentation of race in pre-clinical medical education.