Podcasts from the journal Medical Education 2010

Winnifred Louis (Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia) talks to the Editor in Chief of Medical Education about her co-authored article published in the December issue of Medical Education: ‘Bias against foreign-born or foreign-trained doctors: experimental evidence’, and what prompted Winnifred and her co-authors to research this topic in detail. This can be seen as a critical topic for health and educational professionals, and those working in broader communities.

Medical Education Editor in Chief Kevin Eva talks to Tony Artino (Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, USA) about his article in the December issue of Medical Education: ‘Second-year medical students’ motivational beliefs, emotions, and achievement’. This article focuses in on motivations and emotions, and Kevin asks Tony about what interested him in this topic and why Tony chose to prioritise this as an area of research.

Kevin Eva, Editor in Chief of Medical Education, talks to Kalman Winston (Assistant Professor of Academic Success, Ross University, Dominica) about remediation, one of the next frontiers for Medical Education and the medical education research community. Kal Winston is co-author of the paper ‘At-risk medical students: implications of students’ voice for the theory and practice of remediation’ (Volume 44, Issue 10, Medical Education) which discusses how to identify and help students who are in difficulty during their health professional training.

In this podcast, Kevin Eva, Editor-in-Chief of Medical Education, spoke to Dr Tsuen-Chiuan Tsai, Associate Dean of I-Shou University College of Medicine, Southern Taiwan. Dr Tsai is a Paediatrician who has been devoted to medical education for 10 years and produced an article for Medical Education entitled ‘Ethical reasoning: A medical ethical reasoning model and its contributions to medical education’ with co-author Peter Harasym. To read the article, please visit this link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03722.x/abstract.

In this first podcast, Editor in Chief of Medical Education, Kevin Eva, introduces himself and the upcoming podcast series, and describes the direction that he hopes Medical Education, along with the Clinical Teacher, will take in the near future.

This is the second podcast in the Medical Education series. In this issue, Editor in Chief of Medical Education, Kevin Eva, speaks to Gabrielle Finn (Lecturer in Anatomy at Durham University), one of the authors of an article in Volume 44 Issue 8 of Medical Education - ‘You’re judged all the time! Students’ views on professionalism: a multicentre study’. Kevin discusses with Gabrielle the idea of professionalism – how we should regard it, teach it, and how to come to a consensus about what we mean by professionalism. To view the article, please use the following link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03743.x/abstract

This is the first podcast in the Medical Education series. In this issue, Editor in Chief of Medical Education, Kevin Eva, speaks to David Cook (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota), one of the authors of the article that features in Volume 44 Issue 8 of Medical Education: ‘What do we mean by web-based learning? A systematic review of the variability of interventions’. Kevin asks David about what motivated him to look at computer-based instruction and web-based learning for his paper. To view the full article, please use this link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03723.x/abstract

This podcast concerns a letter submitted by Dr Kieran Walsh (Editorial Lead, BMJ Learning, BMJ Publishing Group, London, UK) in the November issue of Medical Education, entitled ‘This thorough, tedious, expensive and disappointing study’. Kevin Eva, Editor in Chief of Medical Education talks to Dr Walsh and finds out the reason why this letter was submitted to the journal. Read the letter: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03855.x/abstract

Kevin Eva, Editor in Chief of Medical Education, talks to Liselotte Dyrbye (Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA), who has, along with her colleagues, published an article in the October issue (Volume 44, Issue 10) of Medical Education entitled ‘Factors associated with resilience to and recovery from burnout: a prospective, multi-institutional study of US medical students’. Kevin and Liselotte discuss why the topic of burnout has become such a priority for the medical education community. To view the article, please use the following link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03754.x/abstract