In this episode, we look at different ways leaders ascribe value (beyond monetary value) to the growth and work of health professions educators. It is important as it suggests how we as educators can use these perspectives to advocate for support of educators and their work. Episode Host Linda Snell Episode article Poncelet, A., Collins, S., Fiore, D., Rosenbluth, G., Loeser, H., Sawaya, G. F., Teherani, A., & Chang, A. (2023). Identifying Value Factors in Institutional Leaders’ Perspectives...
Sep 19, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 20
In this episode, the hosts review a research paper that takes on the challenge of generating a theory of identity safety in the clinical learning environment. 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...
Sep 11, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Methods Consult – Thematic Analysis is an inaugural episode where Lara Varpio dig a bit deeper into the some of the science methods and theory in health professions education. When you need a little help, or a second opinion, or just some advice from an expert colleague, you might call for a consult. These methods consults are precisely that: a little insight from a colleague who has medical education research experience and (some) expertise In this episode, we review thematic analysis as an ind...
Jun 27, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 18
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. Episode host: Jonathan Sherbino Episode Article: Chan, S. C. C., Gondhalekar, A. R., Choa, G., & Rashid, M. A. (2022). Adoption of Problem-Based Learning in Medical Schools in Non-Western Countries : A Systematic Review. Teaching and Learning in Medicine , 0 (0), 1–12. https://doi.o...
Jun 20, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 17
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. Host Linda Snell Episode article: Liao, K.-C., & Peng, C.-H. (2023). Evolving from Didactic to Dialogic: How to Improve Faculty Development and Support Faculty Developers by Using Action Research. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/1040...
Jun 13, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 16
In this episode, Jason introduces a paper that uses case study methodology to look at complex educational interventions, and why so often fail Episode host: Jason Frank Article: Humphrey-Murto, S., Makus, D., Moore, S., Watanabe Duffy, K., Maniate, J., Scowcroft, K., Buba, M., & Rangel, J. C. (2023). "Training physicians and residents for the use of Electronic Health Records—A comparative case study between two hospitals. Medical Education, 57(4), 337–348." Episode webpage Hosts: Lara Varpio...
Jun 06, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 15
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. Host: Lara Varpio Episode article: Milner, R. J., Flotte, T. R., & Thorndyke, L. E. (2022). Defining Scholarship for Today and Tomorrow. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, Publish Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1097/CEH.0000000000000473 Episode w...
May 29, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 14
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? Episode host Linda Snell Article: Newman, C., Yan, J., Messiah, S. E., & Albin, J. (2023). Culinary M...
May 23, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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. Episode Host: Jason R. Frank Episode article Phinney, L. B., Fluet, A., O’Brien, B. C., Seligman, L., & Hauer, K. E. (2022). Beyond Checking Boxes: Exploring Tensions With Use of a Workplace-Based Assessment Tool for Formative Assessment in Clerkships. Academi...
May 16, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 12
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. Episode host: Lara Varpio Book chapter: Verwer, S., & van Braak, M. (2022). Subjectification in Hea...
May 09, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Chatbots use natural language processing (NLP) to converse and answer questions posed by a human user. Large language models (think billions of language parameters/nodes connected via networks to produce non-linear correlations between nodes) have accelerated the usability of chatbots. Original composition, answering complex questions etc. are some of the features In this episode we examine the feasibility of a hugely popular chatbot to answer a national medical licensing exam and discuss the im...
May 02, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Continuing professional development (CPD) is often considered neglected and needing improvement. So who are the CPD leaders who will deliver on this needed change? Episode Host: Jason R. Frank Episode article Paton, M., Rowland, P., Tavares, W., Schneeweiss, S., & Ginsburg, S. (2022). The Ontological Choreography of Continuing Professional Development: A Mixed-Methods Study of Continuing Professional Development Leaders and Program Directors. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Pro...
Apr 24, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Methods Consult - Paradigms is an inaugural episode where Lara Varpio dig a bit deeper into the some of the science methods and theory in Health professions education. Today’s theme is the basics of any research, the point of origin of your research; It is the philosophies of scienc e and research paradigms. Episode host: Lara Varpio For show notes and more info, please look at the Episode page Technical Producer: Samuel Lundberg Executive Producer: Teresa Sörö Production of Unit for teaching an...
Apr 18, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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. Episode host: Jonathan Sherbino For show notes and more info, please look at the Episode page Episode Article Liu, L. X., Goldszmidt, M., Calvert, S., Burm, S., Torti, J., Cristancho, S., & Sukhera, J. (2022). From distress to detachment: Exploring how providing c...
Apr 11, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Assessments that matter is the ultimate goal of any health professions education system. This paper looked at the US surgical milestones rating scores in relation to surgical outcomes of graduates and found a surprising result. Episode host Jason R. Frank Article: Kendrick, D. E., Thelen, A. E., Chen, X., Gupta, T., Yamazaki, K., Krumm, A. E., Bandeh-Ahmadi, H., Clark, M., Luckoscki, J., Fan, Z., Wnuk, G. M., Ryan, A. M., Mukherjee, B., Hamstra, S. J., Dimick, J. B., Holmboe, E. S., & George...
Apr 04, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 6
How did you learn to write academicly and how do we support developing authors for success? This episode is lead by Jason R. Frank and the team are discussing a scoping review that has put together the research on faculty development programs in educational scholarship, namely author development initiatives, in academic medicine. For show notes and more info, please look at the Episode page Episode Article Cameron, M. W., Crowther, L. N., & Huang, G. C. (2023). Faculty Development and Infras...
Mar 27, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 5
The unintended consequence of CBME that this paper addresses is the assessment burden that residents have had to bear with the increase volume of formative assessments. The authors identified 9 assessment burdens, which clustered under each of the three psychological needs presented in self-determination theory; Autonomy, Relatedness and Competence. Episode host: Lara Varpio Article: Ott, M. C., Pack, R., Cristancho, S., Chin, M., Van Koughnett, J. A., & Ott, M. (2022). “The Most Crushing Th...
Mar 21, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 4
This week we get to hear a really interesting debate around Entrustable Professional Activites (EPAs) in PhD education as the group look into the chosen article. Could EPAs be used in this new context? There are also several thoughts around the Delphi method. Listen in and comment with us. Either on on the Episode page or you can find us on Twitter Episode host: Linda Snell Article: Gandomkar, R., Zaeri, R., & ten Cate, O. (2022). Expectations for PhDs in health professions education: An int...
Mar 14, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this episode, Lara Varpio takes the lead discussing a scoping review study examining uncertainty tolerance. The hosts debate questions relevant to your educational practice, including: What is the role of uncertainty and uncertainty tolerance in both clinical work and in health professions education? Is uncertaintly tolerance a competence to be expected of clinicians? If yes, how can we teach it? The hosts also share some insights about how to do a scoping review (listen into the ongoing deba...
Mar 07, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 2
In this first episode Jon presents a South African article that via a curriculum analysis investigates in what ammoung helath advocacy was taught and assessed at health professions programmes at a SA university. The host team discuss health advocacy, its definition and importnace in HPE. Further they dig deeper in the method of content analysis in curriculum mapping and focus groups, and what we learned from the article. Article: van Staden D, Duma S. The teaching, learning and assessment of hea...
Feb 27, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Intro to this new podcast - PAPERs podcast - Professionals & Academics parsing Education Litteratur For all of you working in health professionals education. If you are an educator, teacher, researcher, supervisor, lookking for inside tips, wants to keep up with the litterature. If you want to be a part of a Global community interested, thinking and worrying about HPE. Hosts : Jason R Frank, Jonathan Sherbino, Linda Snell, Lara Varpio Join us and be part of our community! We want your ideas ...
Jan 30, 2023•7 min
