#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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#26 Teamwork makes the Dream work – A Guide to Research Collaborations? 

Wouldn’t it be great to win that Nobel prize in educational rocketsurgery by publishing that great multi-institutional medical education study?! We review a paper on research collaborations looking for tips on how to do it right. 

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• Blog
• Scholarship

October 31, 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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• Identity
• Medicine
• Qualitative analysis
• Undergraduate

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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• Curriculum
• Medicine
• PBL
• Synthesis: Scoping
• Undergraduate

June 20, 2023

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#16 Evolution of a faculty development activity: acting on action and developing the developer 

Can you improve faculty development by advancing faculty developers’ role and expertise as educators? We discuss it in this week’s paper. We also discuss a new (to the podcast) research methodology: participatory action research.

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• Assessment
• Health Professions Education

June 13, 2023

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#14 Movin’ on up on the East side

In this episode, the hosts take on a question that has long been debated in health professions education: What is scholarship? If you will ever be going up for promotion and/or tenure, this is an episode not to be missed. 

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• Faculty Development
• Health Professions Education
• Medicine
• Nursing
• Scholarship

May 30, 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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• Curriculum
• Medicine
• Nutritional Education
• Synthesis: Scoping
• Undergraduate

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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• Assessment
• Medicine
• Qualitative analysis
• Undergraduate
• Workplace-based assessment

May 16, 2023

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#11 Break on through to the other side of PIF

In this episode, Lara brings a book chapter to the discussion which asks if we need to think differently about professional identity formation (PIF). The hosts discuss the strengths and weaknesses of current ways of thinking about PIF and they review the concept of subjectification and how this concept might help the field move to new, and exciting new ways of thinking about being a clinician.

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• Commentary
• Health Professions Education
• Medicine
• Professional Identity Formation

May 8, 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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• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Assessment
• Experiment
• Medicine
• Undergraduate

May 2, 2023

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