Medical Education Podcasts

Context matters: emergent variability in an effectiveness trial of online teaching modules - Rachel Ellaway interview

An effectiveness study to understand implementation variance of online educational modules in surgery clerkships was conducted in six US medical schools participating in an efficacy trial of different multimedia designs.

Are rural placements positively associated with rural intentions in medical graduates? - Michael Jones interview

Seeks to determine whether rural clinical placements are associated with a higher proportion of graduating students planning rural careers and to explore associations with timing, duration and location of placements.

A pilot study of the mental workload of objective structured clinical examination examiners - Aidan Byrne interview

Seeks to establish the feasibility of measuring the mental workload of examiners and methodologies and baseline values to guide future study design.

'Being sick a lot, often on each other': students’ alcohol-related provocation - Lori Black interview

Explores alcohol-related harassment at medical school.

Making sense of feedback experiences: a multi-school study of medical students' narratives - Lynn M. Urquhart interview

An original narrative interviewing approach to explore how medical students make sense of their experiences of feedback.

Clinical teachers' perspectives on cultural competence in medical education - Peih-Ying Lu interview

Investigates clinical teachers' attitudes towards cultural competence training.

The twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism in clinical practice - Sílvia Mamede interview

Explores the magnitude of the problem of overtreatment and undertreatment and the potential sources of these treatment errors.

Humility and respect: core values in medical education - Larry D. Gruppen interview

Explores how many of the values and behaviours described in the original Hippocratic Oath are relevant to medical education.