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Undergraduate

#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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October 3, 2023

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#19 Long Live the Purple Scrunchy!

This work pushes beyond current notions of psychological safety and so looks not only at how educators can help protect the full breadth of identities that learners bring to medical education, but also the agency that the learners can harness. If you want to foster learning environments where each and every learner is free to be their full selves, then this is a must-listen episode.

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September 12, 2023

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#17 Context is Everything: The Challenges of PBL Around the World

This episode explores the challenges of transplanting PBL outside of a Western culture. The authors use meta-ethnography to synthesize the literature.

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June 20, 2023

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#13 Cooking your way through medical school: a hand-on approach to food as an evidence-based intervention.

Teaching health professionals to discuss practical aspects of nutrition with patients is important. This paper describes innovative culinary medicine programs, including their benefits, success factors, gaps, and challenges. The related podcast provides a different perspective … or does it?

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May 23, 2023

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#12 Fidelity or Futility?: Let’s CHAT about WBA

Workplace-based assessments (WBAs): what’s not to love? A lot apparently. It seems there is a tidal wave of pushback to contemporary efforts to implement new WBA and direct observation. In this episode we unpack what this is all about.

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May 16, 2023

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# 10 Ex machina: The disruption of HPE with AI

In this episode we examine the feasibility of a hugely popular chatbot to answer a national medical licensing exam and discuss the implications of this disruptive innovation.
Chatbots use natural language processing (NLP) to converse and answer questions posed by a human user. Large language models have accelerated the usability of chatbots. Original composition, answering complex questions etc. are some of the features.

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May 2, 2023

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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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April 11, 2023

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#2 Uncertainty – That’s what one fears most

Lara Varpio take the lead of the conversation in this episode on uncertainty.
What is the role of uncertainty and uncertainty tolerance in both clinical work and in health professions education? To handle uncertaintly is a competence expected of clinicians but how can we teach it?

The hosts discuss the phenomena of uncertainty as well as ways to study it. The article of the week has is a scoping review as method, and some thoughts and resources around it are shared.

Lara’s take away: The selection of theory you make for you study, really shapes the knowledge you develop afterwords.

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March 7, 2023

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#1 Health Advocacy Education in South Africa

Host: Jonathan Sherbino Today’s article: Staden, D. van, & Duma, S. (2022). The teaching, learning and assessment of health advocacy in a South African College of Health Sciences. South […]

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