Medical Education Podcasts

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.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: An act of performance: Exploring residents’ decision-making processes to seek help. 

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

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: Qualitative analysis of medical student reflections on the implicit association test. 

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.

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.

By showing promotion in medical education is shaped by ideologies that create different experiences for men and women, Varpio et al. offer insight into how we might reverse the underrepresentation of women in the field's highest ranks.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: Attaining full professor: Women’s and men’s experiences in medical education.

The authors illustrate how rewards for teaching activities send a message, building morale by conveying that the educational mission remains a priority in this era of increasing clinical and administrative pressure.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: Physician‐faculty perceptions towards teaching incentives: A case study at a children’s hospital.

Noting that fundamental values not explicitly described in formal accreditation standards risk becoming lost in education practices, Chen et al. identify a troubling absence of compassionate care reflected in current standards.

Read the accompanying article to this audio paper: Competent to provide compassionate care? A critical discourse analysis of accreditation standards.

Curious how growth mindset has been researched in health professions education? In this review, the authors mapped research in our field, shining light on the benefits of (and strategies to promote) a growth mindset.

Read the accompanying article to this audio paper: A review to characterise and map the growth mindset theory in health professions education.

Rudland et al. explore learner neglect in medical education and report various parallels to an existing framework of child neglect.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: Medical student learner neglect in the clinical learning environment: Applying Glaser’s theoretical model.

Medical students' intentions upon graduation are the strongest predictors of engaging subsequently in rural work, but intentions can be changed by enabling rural opportunities during training.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: Intention mutability and translation of rural intention into actual rural medical practice.