Educator's Podcast

In the modern MedEd world, mentoring has become the buzzword. However, there is not enough training to become a good mentor. Often it is expected that everyone should be able to mentor their juniors. In this podcast, Dr Gotian who is Chief Learning Officer in the Department of Anesthesiology, Assistant Dean for Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York challenges that assumption and shares her insight from her Mentoring the Mentor programme.

Networking is the sharing of ideas through a conversation between individuals who have something in common. In this podcast, Dr Mike Gisondi from Stanford University elaborates the significance of Networking in MedEd and talks about various important aspects of it.

"Podcasting allows you to enter in the Global Classroom," says Podcast maestro & @EMcases fame Dr Anton Helman from Toronto. In this podcast, not only he discusses the podcasting process and the equipment but also highlights the importance of space repetitive multimodal learning model. Stay tuned with his upcoming Podcast Camp for Medical Educators at www.podcastcamp.org.

Social media presence in medical education is increasing day by day. However, there is not much guidance for medical educators around how to use it. In this informative podcast, world-renowned social media expert and MedEd guru Teresa Chan from McMaster University shares her valuable insights and talks about the pros and cons of SoMe in MedEd.

In this excellent podcast, well known "Feedback" researcher Dr Subha Ramani from Harvard Medical School discusses about various aspects of Feedback conversations. "Feedback is not a Recipe" is the key message, says Dr Ramani. She shares her insights from her in-depth research on feedback conversations and proposes the R2C2 model and Johari's window as tools to facilitate a good feedback conversation.

In this podcast, Professor Jonathan Sherbino from McMaster University shares his insights with budding educators about CBME, its place in higher health professional education and also, suggests how to get it right.

In this podcast, Dr Daniel Wolpaw & Dr Terry Wolpaw from Penn state talk about a novel concept of Design Thinking and its place in medical education. 

In this Podcast, Boston based MedEd specialist Liz Gaufberg discusses the novel teaching method called Visual thinking strategy (VTS). She talks about various aspects of VTS and suggests the budding educators about its integration in medical curricula.

In this podcast, "Bond" fame Vic Brazil talks about how to get ready for starting a simulation-based educational programme in your institute. She shares her valuable insights and pearls of wisdom to help upcoming educators in dealing with this common dilemma.

In this podcast, intensivist and blogger Dr Chris Nickson expresses his thought about digital media in healthcare professional education.