Medical Education Podcasts

Mapping the dark matter of context: a conceptual scoping review - Joanna Bates interview

Provides a critical and conceptual review of the concept of context within the medical education literature and beyond.

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Women in medical education: views and experiences from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Lulu Alwazzan interview

This study provides important new insights into female medical educators’ experiences of career progression and leadership in a non-Western context.

Read the accompanying article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.12988/full

Value of supervised learning events in predicting doctors in difficulty - Mumtaz Patel interview

Identifies the principles that inform our understanding about how SLEs can work in predicting doctors in difficulty.

Read the accompanying editorial: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12996

The relationship between perceived preceptor power use and student empowerment during clerkship rotations: a study of hidden curriculum - Lawrence Grierson interview

Explores student perceptions of personal empowerment and the social power employed by their preceptors.

Read the accompanying editorial: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.13065

Health-promoting factors in the freshman year of medical school: a longitudinal study - Thomas Kötter interview

Looks at what keeps medical students healthy during medical education - resilience, social support, mentoring, physical activities and other factors.

Read the accompanying editorial: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12987

Widening access in selection in medicine and dentistry using situational judgement tests: evidence from the UKCAT - Fiona Patterson & Sandra Nicholson interview

Examines the diversity-related benefits of the use of (SJTs) in the UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT)

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Exploring challenges in implementing a health systems science curriculum - Jed Gonzalo interview

Studies student perceptions of the benefits and challenges of a HSS curriculum.

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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12957

Decline in medical students’ attitudes to interprofessional learning and patient-centredness - Nicky Hudson interview

Examines medical students’ attitudes to IPL and patient-centred care, on programme entry and after an early interdisciplinary clinical experience (ICE).

Read the accompanying article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12958

Meta-analysis and review of learner performance and preference: virtual versus optical microscopy - Adam Wilson interview

Examines the effectiveness of this new digital approach.

Read the accompanying article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12944

Prevalence of depression amongst medical students - Rohan Puthran interview

Medical schools are known to be stressful environments and medical students have been believed to experience more depression than other students. This looks at levels of depression amongst medical students.

Read the accompanying article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12962