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A futuristic scene of a medical trainee walking a glowing pathway, with holographic icons for competencies like 'clinical skills' and 'patient communication' lighting up as they pass. Mentor figures guide the way, set against a backdrop of fading traditional time markers, symbolizing the flexible, innovative journey of competency-based education.

#72 – Is this program competency-based?

Episode host: Jason R. Frank. In this episode, Jason is tackling a big question in health education: what does it really mean for a program to be “competency-based”? With Competency-Based […]

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#38 Feedback: One More Time

Feedback convention (dogma?) suggests that it should be given immediately. This episode examines that premise. Via an elegant experiment, the authors examine the effect of feedback on learning and the optimal timing of feedback. Spoiler alert: it’s an experiment, so you’ll need to squint/stretch to see how/if the findings change your teaching practice.

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#22 Feedback: Who owns it?

Students say they don’t get enough, or enough ‘good’ feedback … teachers say they deliver lots and do it well. Could some of this tension be because the role of the learner in the feedback process is underemphasized?  Students must have ‘feedback literacy’ and use behaviors that facilitate effective feedback … but what does this actually involve? Is it an issue with ‘triadic reciprocal interplay’?

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