Educator's Podcast

In this podcast, we discuss the upsurge of the use of technology in Meded space during COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Eric Gantwerker from Chicago talks about the pros and cons of the different technological solutions emerged during this pandemic.

Understanding of social determinants of health is important not only for budding medical professionals but also for medical educators. In this podcast, Dr Mobola Campbell-Yesufu from Northwestern university talks about the need to include this topic in all medical curricula across the globe.

Join Dr. Eve Purdy from Canada to learn how to dissect the culture of your working environment through the lens of Anthropology. In this podcast, she describes simulation as a means to create moments of cultural compression and how that can be beneficial to evaluate and thus potentially modify the culture of the place.

Professional identity formation (PIF) is a complex sociocultural process whereby medical students learn to think, feel, and act like physicians. In this podcast, Professor Mark Stephens from Pennsylvania helps us understand the concept of Professional identity formation (PIF) through the lens of mask making.    

Translational simulation in the context of pandemic refers to the subset, which is oftentimes but not always in-situ simulation activity. This is really targeting a particular service outcome and involves going through essentially a quality improvement cycle of studying it, planning, doing something, restudying it, acting on that. COVID-19 pandemic offers a unique opportunity to simulation craft group to step up in order to implement urgent and high stakes change. Join Professor Victoria Brazil in this podcast, where she discusses the complexities of translational simulation in COVID-19 pandemic. 

COVID-19 has posed enormous challenges to the educator community. It's very important to maintain the mentor-mentee relationship during this pandemic. Dr. Ruth Gotian, Assistant Dean For Mentoring Academy at Weil Cornell medicine shares her tips on how to maintain and prosper this relationship in these difficult times.

In this podcast, Chris Nickson from Down Under talks about the launch of Clinician Incubator Programme a novel initiative for budding intensive care educators in Australia & New Zealand. 

Shame is highly complex, individualised and contextualised construct and should not be used as a pedagogical intervention to facilitate learning. in this podcast, Will Bynum from Duke university shares his thoughts and research on this complex concept.

Learning is a social rather than an individual activity, and much of it occurs at the unconscious level, resulting in the acquisition of a large body of tacit knowledge. In this podcast, Dr Alice Fornari who is Vice President of Faculty Development at Northwell Health System and Associate Dean at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine helps budding educators to understand this novel concept.

Micro-aggression is well recognised but less talked problem in medicine. In this podcast, Dr Ruth Gotian from Weil Cornell Medicine, New York talks about this concept and helps us to understand various strategies to deal with Micro-aggressions in Medicine.

There has been a trend of the increasing use of infographics in MedEd. In this thought-provoking podcast, Dr Ben Symon from Brisbane advises budding educators to use it as an adjunct rather than the primary pedagogy. He talks about the role of infographics in promoting scholarship in MedEd and shares his insights in designing the better infographics. 

In this podcast, Professor Dan Pratt talks about the concept of Plurality of good teaching by diving deeper into the use of teaching perspective inventory.

Social media has become the integral part of medical educator's life. In this podcast, Jesse Spurr from Queensland talks about how to social media to create an impressive and effective profile as an educator. For his paid work, Jesse is a critical care nurse. Much to the dismay of his ever-patient (and infinitely more successful) wife, Jesse likes to use his “spare” time doing “volunteer” work in the form of conference organising, co-producing healthcare simulation podcast Simulcast, producing nursing practice development blog and podcast Injectable Orange, and all manner of other questionable healthcare and education pseudo-academic activities. A sport and functional fitness obsessive, Jesse classes himself a lifelong student of teaching, learning, health and human performance.

"Branding" is not just a narcissistic pursuit, but it can be used effectively to disseminate your knowledge and expertise in Medical Education. In this podcast, Prof Vic Brazil talks about the novel concept of Branding for Medical Educators. The key message is "Know your Audience" & be mindful about the distinction between "Personal Brand" vs "Institutional Brand".

In this podcast, a well-renowned medical educator from Down Under Prof Margaret Hay shares her views and insights on the hot topic in MedEd, i.e. Assessment. She talks about the changing landscape of the assessment process and advises all budding educators to take formal training in designing assessment for their learners. 

We as healthcare professionals and medical educators grapple with Ambiguity all the time. However, we are still uncertain about how to deal with it. In this podcast, Dr Arabella Simpkin from Boston talks about the relevance of grey spaces in medical education and why embracing uncertainty is the key for future educational reforms.

In this podcast, Professor Stuart Goldman talks about this novel concept in Medical Education and shares his insights from creating a Kanban system for his residency programme. It's an innovative trainee driven feedback process and applies to any training programme, says Professor Goldman

The role of technology in MedEd is increasing day by day. It poses an enormous challenge to medical educators. In this podcast, Dr Eric Gantwerker from Chicago talks about his approach to deal with this challenge.

A passionate medical education enthusiast, podcast evangelist, learning choreographer, and entrepreneur, Rob Rogger from the University of Kentucky discusses about disruptive innovation in MedEd and shares valuable insights from his journey in MedED.