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#49 – Shhh… I’m trying to learn.

Episode Host: Jonathan Sherbino This episode offers an exploration of silence in education, challenging traditional notions of verbal dominance in the classroom. By examining silence as a positive pedagogical tool, […]

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April 23, 2024

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#43 – Getting In to Medical School: What Counts? And Why?

Episode article Young, M. E., Shankar, S., & St-Onge, C. (2023). An exploration of values in medical school admissions processes: The interplay between contextual factors, admissions practices, and validity, Advances […]

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March 12, 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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February 13, 2024

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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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February 6, 2024

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#37 – The 3Ms Do you depend on your phone?

In this episode, the papers podcast team reviews a paper that explores media multitasking (MMM) among medical students. The paper applies a theory-based approach to understand the beliefs and factors that influence MMM behavior and its impact on academic performance. The team discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the paper, the use of theory and methods, and the relevance and usefulness of the findings for health professions education. Tune in to hear their lively and insightful conversation.

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January 30, 2024

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#33 – Holiday specials

It’s our annual infamous Holiday Episode, where we find the quirkiest papers in health professions education. These are the papers that we couldn’t resist talking about, even if they’re not the most rigorous or relevant to our practice. These are the papers that will make you say “Wow, I can’t believe this got into the literature!” We like to have some fun and celebrate the diversity and creativity of our field. And who knows, maybe you’ll learn something new or get inspired by some of these quirky papers. So, without further ado, let’s turn to our elves and see what do they have for us!

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December 19, 2023

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#32 Early Career Specials – Part 2

Welcome to the special episode of our podcast, where we showcase the work of early career scholars in health professions education from around the world. This is part two of […]

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December 12, 2023

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#30 – This is a perfect, I mean excellent, I mean… gimme another chance … paper

s perfectionism a tacit prerequisite to excel in health professions training? What does perfectionism do to learners? And how can educators address the maladaptive behaviours of perfectionists? Interested? Then check out this episode.

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November 28, 2023

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#24 Goin’ to school with this sweet child o’ mine

In this episode, the hosts examine the experience of medical students who either matriculate as parents, or who become parents during their undergraduate medical training. Have we supported those learners, or have we left them to fend for themselves?

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October 17, 2023

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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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