Medical Education Podcasts

Autonomy and professional identity formation in residency training: A qualitative study – interview with Adam P. Sawatsky

The authors use Social Cognitive Theory to describe professional identity formation in residency training, highlighting the relationship between autonomy, making decisions, responsibility for patients.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14073

A systematic review of digital badges in health care education – interview with Julie A. Noyes

Digital badges represent an innovative instructional strategy involving credentialing competencies to provide evidence for skill acquisition. This systematic review reveals pedagogical, research limitations, provides an evidence‐based foundation for designing, implementing digital badges. 

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14060

Aha! Taking on the myth that simulation‐derived surprise enhances learning - interview with Sandra Monteiro and Matthew Sibbald

While unexpected experiences can be memorable, Monteiro and Sibbald challenge the assumption that they should be built into simulation to enable learning.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14141

Psychological safety in feedback: What does it look like and how can educators work with learners to foster it? - interview with Christina E. Johnson

Psychological safety is an important concept for facilitating student learning, but what behaviours are likely to enable it in the workplace? Feedback videos reveal how educators might foster learner safety.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14154

‘Being international is always a good thing’: A multicentre interview study on ethics in international medical education - interview with Emmaline Brouwer

Internationalisation is generally embraced with positivity by teaching staff in international medical programmes. This article, however, shines a light on the ethical dilemmas it poses through marketisation and homogenisation.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14054

Students as patients: A systematic review of peer simulation in health care professional education - interview with Narelle Dalwood

Good news for those whose resources won't support a formal standardized patient program: This systematic review demonstrates that peer simulation offers a viable alternative that positively influences student communication and development of empathy.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14058

Focused ethnography as an approach in medical education research - interview with Jane E. Møller

This Research Approaches article introduces focused ethnography as a qualitative strategy for exploring episodes of interaction that may allow for deeper understanding of socio‐cultural influences on medical education.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/medu.14045

The impact of entrustment assessments on feedback and learning: Trainee perspectives - interview with Leslie Martin

While it appears that entrustable professional activities and entrustment scales can support assessment for learning in postgraduate medical education, this study shows that key dilemmas need to be managed to ensure successful implementation.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/medu.14047

Beyond the self: The role of co‐regulation in medical students’ self‐regulated learning - interview with Derk Bransen

Is self‐regulated learning entirely self‐regulated? Bransen et al. share data demonstrating it to be embedded in co‐regulated learning, characterized shifts in regulatory focus, drivers for regulation, and co‐regulation partners.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14018

Conceptualising spaced learning in health professions education: A scoping review - interview with Marjolein Versteeg

Digging into the educationally strategic phenomenon of spaced learning, the authors discover variety that leads them to propose a comprehensive definition and emphasise that detailed format descriptions are needed to facilitate further development.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14025