Medical Education Podcasts

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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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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Looks at some of the communication barriers facing IMGs who are from non-English-language backgrounds and offers insights from applied linguistics experts.
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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.
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Looks at which variables influence the process and outcomes of feedback in medical education settings

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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

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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/

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/

Investigates the elements of programmatic assessment that students perceived as supporting or inhibiting learning, and the factors that influenced the active construction of their learning. Read the accompanying article:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12645/

Argues that some of the common ways in which reflection has been applied are influenced by broader discourses of assessment and evidence, and divorced from original theories of reflection and reflective practice. Read the accompanying article:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/medu.12680/