Medical Education Podcasts

Assessors’ interpretations of narrative data on communication skills in a summative OSCE - interview with Kyle Wilby

The purpose of this study was to explore how expert assessors process and construe or bring meaning to narrative data when interpreting narrative assessment comments written by others in the setting of standardised performance assessment.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13924

Emotional challenges of medical students generate feelings of uncertainty - interview with Maria Weurlander

Health care students face many situations during their education that might be emotionally challenging. The purpose of the study was to explore medical students’ main concerns relating to emotionally challenging situations during their medical education.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13934

Interview with Peter Yeates: Exploring differences in individual and group judgements in standard setting

How does variability arise when different groups decide upon the appropriate cut score for an examination? The authors shine light on this question by exploring the complex interaction between individual and group processes.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13915

‘Bumping along’: a qualitative metasynthesis of challenges to interprofessional placements - interview with Noreen O'Leary

This review provides an overview of the challenges faced during interprofessional placements and makes recommendations for facilitating collaborative practice to address increasingly complex healthcare needs.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13891

Factors predicting identity as educators and openness to improve - interview with Abigail Snook

This exploratory study examines the extent to which perceived connectedness and received appreciation predicted identity as a medical (health care science) educator and openness to improve in tenure‐track and sessional faculty members.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13909

Interview with John Barber and Sophie Park: Facilitators and barriers to teaching undergraduate medical students in general practice

The authors demonstrate the marginalisation of primary care‐based teaching and propose a novel explanation rooted in CoP theory.

Read the accompanying article to this podcast:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13882

Some assembly required: tracing the interpretative work of Clinical Competency Committees - Rachael Pack's Interview

The authors of this qualitative study illustrate the processes of evidence interpretation Clinical Competency Committees
(CCCs) use to grapple with and weigh assessment data.
Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13884

‘Waiting in the wings’; Lived experience at the threshold of clinical practice - Niamh Coakley's Interview

The hidden curriculum is seen to shape new medical graduates’ understanding of the expectations of them as doctors in ways that
inspire dysfunctional strategies to meet those expectations.
Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13899

Recruiting expertise: how surgical trainees engage supervisors and regulate learning - Patrick Nieboer and Mike Huiskes' Interview

Trainees' success at drawing upon the expertise of their supervisors plays a substantial role in determining the learning benefits derived from clinical encounters. This paper outlines four types of practice students use.
Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13822

Multiple-role mentoring: mentors’ conceptualizations, enactments and role conflicts - Stephanie Meeuwissen's Interview

While serving as both coach & assessor might seem rife with conflict, Meeuwissen et al. report that one's approach to mentoring may determine the likelihood of difficulty.
Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.13811