#79 – Equality for all in assessment

Episode Host: Lara Varpio. How can we make assessments truly equitable? In this episode, Lara dives into a paper that explores fairness, inclusion, and justice as three distinct approaches to […]

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• Assessment
• Clinical Discipline
• Commentary
• Education Topic
• Graduate
• Level of Learner
• Medicine
• Undergraduate

January 21, 2025

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#70 – Live Fast and Die-Hard: Finding Heroic Career Paths in Training Stories 

Episode host: Jason R. Frank. This week, Jason’s paper dives into how health professionals find their career paths. Learn about die-hards, negotiators, migrants, and how Jon almost joined the clergy. […]

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• Blog
• Graduate
• Identity
• Medicine
• Narrative inquiry
• Professional Identity Formation
• Qualitative analysis
• Resicency training

October 22, 2024

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#63 – You can’t handle my truth 

Episode host: Lara Varpio. This episode, hosted by Lara Varpio, tackles the pressing issue of mental illness among physicians and trainees—a crisis that remains hidden due to fear and stigma. […]

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• Graduate
• Medicine
• Mental Illness
• Mixed Method
• Postgraduate
• Undergraduate

September 3, 2024

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#55 – The Toll of the Trolls

Episode host: Jason R. Frank Join the PAPERs Podcast team as they dissect a study on professional identity formation (PIF) in surgical residency. Discover how specific “role model moments” shape […]

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• Blog
• Graduate
• Health Professions Education
• Identity
• In practice
• Postgraduate
• Professional Identity Formation
• Professionalism
• Qualitative analysis
• Thematic analysis

June 4, 2024

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#53 – No free lunch v. I’m in debt and hungry: The Debate on Industry and Education. 

The episode highlights that a resident’s specialty and the type of training institution, might just tip the scales on whether they snag a free lunch from the big pharma. 

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• CME/CPD
• Experiment
• Graduate
• Medicine
• Professionalism

May 21, 2024

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#39 – How to Jump Start Your PIF in an Era of CBE 

Is a competency-based approach to health professions education compatible with professional identity formation? These authors say no and offer some remedies. But is their premise based on misunderstandings?

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• Commentary
• Doctoral Education
• Education Topic
• Faculty Development
• Graduate
• Health Professions Education
• In practice
• Postgraduate
• Professional Identity Formation
• Undergraduate

February 13, 2024

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#7 Moral (or Morale?) development in medical trainees

Learning is social. Caring for stigmatized patients can have a negative impact on trainees. In this episode we discover how frustration and futility during patient care may lead to future apathy and moral detachment as a physician.

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• Graduate
• Health Professions Education
• Methods Consult Note
• Professionalism
• Qualitative analysis
• Teaching
• Theoretical framework
• Undergraduate

April 11, 2023

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#6 The mystery of the missing milestone outcomes

Host: Jason R. Frank. Enjoy listening to us at your preferred podcast player. Apple    Google    Spotify    Spreaker  Episode article Kendrick, D. E., Thelen, A. E., Chen, X., […]

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• Assessment
• Competency Based Education (CBME)
• Database
• Graduate
• Health Professions Education
• Medicine
• Milestones

April 4, 2023

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