Medical Education Podcasts

'We are a tight community’: social groups and social identity in medical undergraduates - Ben Lovell interview

Looks at the roles and significance of student social groups within medical undergraduate communities.

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Student experiences across multiple flipped courses in a single curriculum - Jacqueline McLaughlin interview

Examines how students experience the flipped classroom model of learning in multiple courses within a single curriculum, as well as to identify specific elements of flipped learning that students perceive as beneficial or challenging.

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How the game of ‘Twenty Questions’ on medical school entrants can predict later clinical performance - Reed Williams interview

A study showing how the game of 'Twenty Questions’ which tests the knowledge people acquire and how well they organise and store the information so that they can effectively retrieve and use it, can be used as a useful predictor of how students will process the knowledge acquired during medical training.

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Considerations in the use of reflective writing for student assessment -Tracy Moniz interview

Using reflective writing in medical education - can it be reliable if used for assessement as well as an educational tool? A new quantitative study in Medical Education.

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Enhancing international medical graduates’ communication: the contribution of applied linguistics - Lynda Yates interview

Looks at some of the communication barriers facing IMGs who are from non-English-language backgrounds and offers insights from applied linguistics experts.
Read the accompanying article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12776/

Medical Education in Review - A fresh perspective on medical education: the lens of the arts - Jonathan Lake interview

What can medical education learn from the arts?

This discusses a new way of thinking about the role of the physician and the educator:looking at alternative ways of learning and teaching and different approaches to professional development.
Read the accompanying article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12768/

Variables that affect the process and outcome of feedback, relevant for medical training - J. M. Monica van de Ridder interview

Looks at which variables influence the process and outcomes of feedback in medical education settings

Read the accompanying article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12744/

Factors associated with adverse clinical outcomes among obstetrics trainees - Catherine E. Aiken interview

Looks at whether UK obstetrics trainees transitioning from directly to indirectly supervised practice have a higher likelihood of recording adverse patient outcomes in operative deliveries compared with other indirectly supervised trainees

Read the accompanying article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12741/

Nationwide study of publication misrepresentation in applicants to residency - Lily H.P. Nguyen

Assesses the prevalence of research publication misrepresentation amongst Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS) applicants to a single surgical subspecialty residency as a potential means of assessing professional behaviour. Read the accompanying article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12729/

Improving the medical elective experience - Ben Kumwenda interview

Evaluates the organisation, outcomes and impacts of medical electives in sub-Saharan Africa from a host perspective, using a qualitative analysis of 14 semi-structured interviews. Read the accompanying article:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12727/