Medical Education Podcasts

Striving to thrive or striving to survive: Professional identity constructions of medical trainees in clinical assessment activities - Interview with Kuo-Chen Liao

This study explores two plotlines describing how assessment impacts trainees' identity: "striving to thrive" and "striving to survive". Narratives reveal growth or oppression; character tropes play a role, shedding light on broader medical education discourses along with valuable insights for educators.

 

Read the accompanying article here: https://asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.15152

‘First in family’ experiences in a Canadian medical school: A critically reflexive study - Interview with Sarah R. Wright and Victoria A. Boyd

Medical school environments can be exclusionary and inequitable to first in family medical students. Critical reflexivity is proposed as a way forward to help foster more inclusive and equitable learning environments.

 

Read the accompanying article here: https://asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.15116

Patient outcomes in a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship: A systematic literature review - Audio Paper with Alastair Dodsworth

Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships provide educational continuity, enabling trusting patient-student relationships that lead students to become agents of change and enhance patient outcomes.

 

Read the accompanying article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.15013

A scoping review of self-monitoring in graduate medical education - Interview with William Rainey Johnson

This scoping review explores self-monitoring in GME and presents a framework defining self-monitoring based on time- and context-dependence. It reflects how self-monitoring can improve to impact performance.

 

Read the accompanying article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.15023

The development of professional identity in clinical psychologists: A scoping review - Audio Paper with Samantha Schubert

Schubert at al. review the literature to determine what is required to nurture and support professional identity from training to practice in ways that support the realisation of mental healthcare reform.

 

Read the accompanying article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.15082

All medical degrees are equal, but some are more equal than others: An analysis of medical degree classifications - Audio Paper with Matthew H. V. Byrne

Degree classifications may be another form of inequity in medical education given variation in terminology, criteria, and percentage of students awarded. Byrne et al. argue a need to better understand the consequential validity of these awards.

 

Read the accompanying article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.15019

Whose problem is it anyway? Confronting myths of ‘problems’ in health professions education - Interview with Aliki Thomas

In the latest instalment of Medical Education Mythology, Thomas and Ellaway explore five myths surrounding "problems" in health professional education research and their impact on using research to guide practice.

 

Read the accompanying article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.15067

Graduates’ preparedness for the changing doctor-patient relationship: A qualitative study - Interview with Nicola Brennan

Doctor-patient relationships are changing as shared decision-making and patient access to information increases. Here graduates are reported as being well prepared for patient-centred care while more work is needed to achieve patient empowerment.

 

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.15020

Scratching beneath the surface: How organisational culture influences curricular reform - Audio Paper with Adarsh P. Shah

Shah et al. explore how context and organizational culture influence curricular reform, reinforcing the view that such reform is not simply about putting recommendations into practice.

 

Read the accompanying article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14994

‘Just pretending’: Narratives of professional identity transitions in internal medicine - Interview with Joanne Kerins

The authors’ narrative analysis reveals identity dissonance experienced by trainees, as they transition to medical registrar, in ways that herald need to empower a sense of agency to support identity work.

 

Read the accompanying article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14965