Medical Education Podcasts

Self-explanation in learning clinical reasoning: the added value of examples and prompts - Martine Chamberland interview

Assesses the impact on medical students’ diagnostic performance of: (i) combining students’ SEs with their listening to examples of residents’ SEs, and (ii) the addition of prompts (specific questions) while working with examples.

Read the accompanying article: 

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12623/

Can we predict future depression in residents before the start of clinical training? - Makoto Ito interview

A nationwide longitudinal study to investigate whether the Sense of Coherence (SOC) Scale could predict future depressive symptoms among medical residents. Read the accompanying article: 

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12620/

Seeking inclusion in an exclusive process: discourses of medical school student selection - Saleem Razack interview

Focuses on the discourses of excellence, equity and diversity in the medical school selection process, as conveyed by key stakeholders. Read the accompanying article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12547/

Equal, global, local: discourses in Taiwan's international medical graduate debate - Ming-Jung Ho interview

Analyses how stakeholders in the IMG debate use equality in their arguments. Read the accompanying article: 

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12619/

Toward a common understanding: supporting and promoting education scholarship for medical school faculty - Elaine Van Melle interview

Explores how promotion policies and processes are used in Canadian medical schools to support and promote education scholarship. Read the accompanying article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12543/

Selection and study performance: comparing three admission processes within one medical school - Nienke Schripsema interview

Examines knowledge test and professionalism scores, study progress and dropout in three cohorts of medical students admitted to the University of Groningen. Read the accompanying article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12537/

Interviewing in situ: employing the guided walk as a dynamic form of qualitative inquiry - Tim Dube interview

Provides a critical analysis of a mobile research method, the guided walk, and its potential suitability in  medical education research. Read the accompanying article to this podcast at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12532/

Exploring stakeholders’ views of medical education research priorities: a national survey - Ashley Dennis interview

Utilises a two-stage design to explore the views of stakeholders across the medical education continuum using online questionnaires. Read the accompanying article to this podcast at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12522

Medical student depression, anxiety and distress outside North America: a systematic review - Max Henderson interview

Examines the prevalences of depression, anxiety and psychological distress in students in medical schools in the UK, Europe and elsewhere in the English-speaking world outside North America.

Professionalism: a framework to guide medical education - Howard Brody interview

Uses philosophical ethical analysis to identify the key precepts associated with professionalism that could best guide the development of an appropriately reflective curriculum.