#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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#74 – Methods Consult – What type of literature review should I do?

Episode host: Lara Varpio. Feeling lost in the world of literature reviews? Choosing the right type can be overwhelming, from systematic to scoping, realist to narrative. In this episode, Lara […]

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• Doctoral Education
• Health Professions Education
• Literature review
• Medicine
• Method
• Methods Consult Note
• Narrative inquiry
• Scholarship
• Scoping review

November 26, 2024

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#67 – First we build the AI, then the AI builds us

Episode host: Lara Varpio. In this episode, Lara leads a conversation about AI and the current body of knowledge about AI that is growing rapidly in Medical Education. Everything you […]

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• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Assessment
• Cognition
• Curriculum
• Learning
• Literature review
• Medicine
• Postgraduate
• Teaching
• Undergraduate

October 1, 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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#57 – Who are you? 

Episode host: Lara Varpio In this episode, we talk about curriculum renewal from a different angle: What happens to the educator’s identity when major reform is undertaken? What happens to […]

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• Academic Career
• Blog
• Health Professions Education
• Identity
• Medicine
• Professional Identity Formation
• Qualitative analysis
• Undergraduate

June 18, 2024

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#54 – Methods Consult – Sample Size

Episode Hosts: Lara Varpio and Jonathan Sherbino. Sample size is a crucial aspect of research design, particularly in experimental studies. It influences the reliability and validity of the study outcomes. […]

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• Blog
• Commentary
• Doctoral Education
• Methods Consult Note
• Sample size

May 28, 2024

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#44 – The same old (CBME) song and dance, my friend

Listening to this episode would provide valuable insights into competency-based medical education (CBME) and the complexities surrounding it. The hosts discuss a paper that reports on the conversations in the literature about CBME. The history of those conversations and what they hold for the future of CBME is highlighted.

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• Competency Based Education (CBME)
• Medicine
• Scoping review
• Synthesis: Scoping

March 19, 2024

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#40 That’s a Terrible Idea. Sign me Up! MHPE programs around the world

WHY are these MHPE program so popular? In this episode, the hosts discuss the explosion of Master’s in Health Professions Education programs around the world. They discuss a paper reporting on the goals of these programs, the expectations Directors have of the graduates, and future directions.

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• Academic Career
• Environmental scan
• Faculty Development
• Health Professions Education
• Leadership
• Mixed Method

February 20, 2024

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#31 Methods Consult – Conceptual Frameworks, Theory, and Theoretical Frameworks

Episode article for reference Varpio, L., Paradis, E., Uijtdehaage, S., & Young, M. (2020). “The Distinctions Between Theory, Theoretical Framework, and Conceptual Framework”. Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of […]

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• Doctoral Education
• Methods Consult Note
• Theoretical framework

December 5, 2023

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#27 Don’t write an ethics statement in your paper without Appendix 3! 

In this episode, the hosts talk about a very short, but very important statement that should be in all our publications: the ethics statement. What do you put in that statement? What should you put in it? This discussion will make sure you know (hint: download Appendix 3)! 

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• Doctoral Education
• Literature review
• Medicine
• Scholarship

November 7, 2023

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