The PAPERs Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
#80 - So Long, Farewell, Amen
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Farewell to an Era: The Final Episode of the Papers PodcastDear Listeners, After more than a decade of insightful discussions, laughter, and learning,...
#79 - Equity for all in assessment
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can we make assessments truly equitable? In this episode, Lara dives into a paper that explores fairness, inclusion, and justice as three distinct...
#78 - Wrapping Papers (from 2024)
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when we set our hosts loose to pick their must-read list of 2024 from papers that didn’t make it into the episodes for all kinds of rea...
#77 - Holiday Episode 2024 - Quirky Papers
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a special Holiday Episode of the PAPERs Podcast! In this fun and festive episode, the hosts bring their quirkiest and most unconventional a...
#76 - A review on modern teaching and learning techniques in medical education
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#76 – A review on modern teaching and learning techniques in medical educationAre your students truly engaged? In this episode, the hosts dive into ...
#75 - Hot for Teacher
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#75 - Hot for TeacherAre we all insane? Given all the contemporary challenges and frictions at work, why do we teach?This episode unpacks the critical...
#74 - Methods Consult - What type of literature review should I do?
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Feeling lost in the world of literature reviews?Choosing the right type can be overwhelming, from systematic to scoping, realist to narrative. In this...
#73 - Does first impression ‘matter’ -and does it matter if I think about it?
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered how your first impressions as a clinical supervisor shape your evaluations? This episode uncovers the findings from a recent study on th...
#72 - Is This Program Competency-based?
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#72 - Is This Program Competency-based?In this episode, Jason is tackling a big question in health education: what does it really mean for a program t...
#71 - UPDATED First we build the AI, then the AI builds us
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#67 - UPDATED - In this episode, Lara leads a conversation about AI and the current body of knowledge about AI that is growing rapidly in Medical Educ...
#70 - Live Fast and Die-Hard: Finding Heroic Career Paths in Training Stories
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Live Fast and Die-Hard: Finding Heroic Career Paths in Training Stories This week, Jason’s paper dives into how health professionals find their car...
#69 - Three Years to MD: Does It Measure Up?
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#69 – Three Years to MD: Does It Measure Up? In this episode, we’re diving into the age-old question: is a three-year medical school program ju...
#68 - Medical Educators are Medical Educators, right?
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#68 - Clinician educators may have similar training content-wise, but the application of that training in widely varied contexts can lead to different...
#67 - First we build the AI, then the AI builds us
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#67 - In this episode, Lara leads a conversation about AI and the current body of knowledge about AI that is growing rapidly in Medical Education. Eve...
#66 - Assess or Stress? Factors influencing assessors in low and middle income contries
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#66 - In this episode, we explore the challenges medical educators face while grading students across diverse settings in the Global South. With a mix...
#65 - Do we learn from mistakes? If so, how?
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
65 - The growth mindset, which involves learning from mistakes, is a crucial part of professional development for both trainees and seasoned practitio...
#64 - Learners Got Talent?
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
64 - Learners Got Talent?Can innate talent be distinguished from hard-earned skills? Over recent decades, much has been written about the learner in d...
#63 - You can’t handle my truth
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
63 - You can’t handle my truthThis episode, hosted by Lara Varpio, tackles the pressing issue of mental illness among physicians and trainees—a cr...
#62 - Faculty Development: More than attending a course
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#62Host Linda Snell are today doing a "consult"; digging a bit deeper into a subject. Explore this guide on faculty development featuring the Four-Qua...
#61 - LIVE at ASME 2024 - Getting Realist with New Medical Schools - 8C’s for Success
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#61 LIVE Session – Getting Realist with New Medical Schools—8C’s for SuccessBut how are new medical schools successfully established?You would t...
#60 - LIVE at ASME 2024 - Instagram-ing the Study Sesh…
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#60 - How learners choose a digital resource to support their learningBack in the days, “I read it somewhere” was an acceptable reference to aut...
#59 - There’s a place for us, somewhere
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
59 - There’s a place for us, somewhere In this episode, Lara leads a discussion about how authors decide between journals when they are making submi...
#58 - The Great Debate: Education's ROI on Patient Health
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#58 - Can the impact on education be measured on patient outcomes?In this episode the hosts take the hotly debate with a recent study published in Jam...
#57 - Who are you?
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk about curriculum renewal from a different angle: What happens to the educator’s identity when major reform is undertaken...
#56 - What's in a name?
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#56 This episode contributes to the understanding of medical education's complex organizational structures. The hosts are discussing different ways of...
#55 - The Toll of the Trolls
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#55 The Toll of the TrollsJoin the PAPERs Podcast team as they dissect a groundbreaking study on professional identity formation (PIF) in surgical res...
#54 - Methods Consult - Sample Size
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sample size is a crucial aspect of research design, particularly in experimental studies. It influences the reliability and validity of the study outc...
#53 - No free lunch vs. I’m in debt and hungry: The Debate on Industry and Education
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#53 - No free lunch v. I’m in debt and hungry: The Debate on Industry and Education. The episode highlights that a resident's specialty and the typ...
#52 - Are you happy yet?
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we explore the flip side of the coin, shedding light on what truly brings us happiness and fulfillment at work. Discover insights from the ...
#51 - Does Big Data Mean Big Evidence?
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can the calls for evidence-based improvement in HPE be answered by big national datasets?Do we know what works in HPE/meded? Does our training “work...
#50 - This Very Variability: Supervisor Practice Differences and Clinical Learning
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This Very Variability: Supervisor Practice Differences and Clinical LearningWhat do learners think when their supervisors do things differently? This ...
#49 - Shhh… I’m trying to learn
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode offers an exploration of silence in education, challenging traditional notions of verbal dominance in the classroom. By examining silenc...
#48 - When they don't bend, you break
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode delves into the challenges faced by healthcare professionals within the UK's National Health Service (NHS), focusing on the inflexibility...
#47 - Methods Consult - Thematic Analysis Rerun
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We at PAPERs Podcast hope that you all hare having happy holidays. We are having two weeks off and would like to present one of the top downloaded epi...
#46 - Health Advocacy Education in South Africa RERUN
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We at PAPERs Podcast hope that you all hare having happy holidays. We are having two weeks off and would like to present thevery first episode that we...
#45 - Shaping Fac Dev Expertise, 8 steps at a time....
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We have a personal identity. And a professional identity, or perhaps a few. And possibly a teacher identity. So, can we also have an identity as a fac...
#44 - The same old (CBME) song and dance, my friend
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Listening to this episode would provide valuable insights into competency-based medical education (CBME) and the complexities surrounding it. The host...
#43 - Getting In to Medical School: What Counts? And Why?
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Getting In to Medical School: What Counts? And Why?Medical school admission is a complex process. But what is a driver of these processes? This stud...
#42 - Will being active on social media get you a professorship?
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use of social and digital media is under recognized as an academic activity, and generally work in this area does not ‘count’ towards academic adv...
#41 - Is #Meded Dead? Social Media & knowledge translation in HPE
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To thrive, every academic community strives for greater knowledge dissemination and translation. Can HPE succeed on social media using a hashtag like ...
#40 - That’s a Terrible Idea. Sign me Up! MHPE programs around the world
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
WHY are these MHPE program so popular? In this episode, the hosts discuss the explosion of Master’s in Health Professions Education programs around ...
#39 - How to Jump Start Your PIF in an Era of CBE
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is a competency-based approach to health professions education compatible with professional identity formation? These authors say no and offer some re...
#38 - Feedback: One More Time
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Feedback convention (dogma?) suggests that it should be given immediately. This episode examines that premise. Via an elegant experiment, the authors ...
#37 - The 3Ms: Do you depend on your phone?
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 3Ms Do you depend on your phone?In this episode, the papers podcast team reviews a paper that explores media multitasking among medical students. ...
#36 - My best mistake
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My best mistakeIn today’s episode, the hosts discuss a paper about the medical errors committed by physicians—their triggers, the topics they refl...
#35 - "I heard it on a podcast… “: Best practices for developing quality open access education resources.
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Open access on-line education resources are the fast growing segment of educational tools. As this grassroots phenomenon approaches metaphorical middl...
#34 - To be, or not to be … a CE … and how to get there: that is the educator question.
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can organizations support the development of Clinical Educator Identity? In this episode of PAPERS Podcast, the hosts review a recent study that e...
#33 - Holiday Special episode
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s our annual infamous Holiday Episode, where we find the quirkiest papers in health professions education!These are the papers that we couldn’t...
#32 - PAPERs Special - Early career scholars Part 2
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the special episode of our podcast, where we showcase the work of early career scholars in health professions education from around the wor...
#31 - Methods Consult - Conceptual Frameworks, Theory, and Theoretical Frameworks
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In response to a listener request, Lara describes the differences between conceptual frameworks, theory, and theoretical frameworks.Host: Lara VarpioE...
#30 - This is a perfect, I mean excellent, I mean… gimme another chance … paper
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is perfectionism a tacit prerequisite to excel in health professions training? What does perfectionism do to learners? And how can educators address t...
#29 - Why can’t we agree (on HPE terminology)?
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meded and health professions education suffer from the lack of common agreement on terms. These authors set out to do something about it. This glossar...
#28 - PAPERs Special - Early career scholars Part 1
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the special episode of our podcast, where we showcase the work of early career scholars in health professions education from around the wor...
#27 - Don’t write an ethics statement in your paper without Appendix 3!
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the hosts talk about a very short, but very important statement that should be in all our publications: the ethics statement. What do...
#26 - Teamwork makes the Dreamwork - A Guide to Research Collaborations?
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wouldn’t it be great to win that Nobel prize in educational rocketsurgery by publishing that great multi-institutional medical education study?! We ...
#25 - ChatGPT4 Unplugged: The Academic Writer's Secret Weapon
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The article discusses the utility of ChatGPT for academic writing. The author recommends using ChatGPT to support laborious writing tasks and refining...
#24 - Goin’ to school with this sweet child o' mine
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the hosts examine the experience of medical students who either matriculate as parents, or who become parents during their undergradu...
#23 - The Call of the Crowd: Why Attend HPE Conferences?
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Been to any good HPE conferences lately? Ever think about why so many of us attend? Or stay home? This study tries to shed some light on medical confe...
#22 - Feedback: Who owns it?
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Students say they don’t get enough, or enough ‘good’ feedback … teachers say they deliver lots and do it well. Could some of this tension be b...
#21 - Resident Selection: A New Hope?
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Selection for residency can be really hard and tricky. In this episode we discuss this paper that has done a scoping review to find out what perspecti...
#20 - What are we worth?
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
#19 - Long live the Purple Scrunchy!
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 envi...
#18 - Methods Consult - Thematic Analysis
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 he...
#17 - Context is Everything: The Challenges of PBL Around the World
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Context is Everything: The Challenges of PBL Around the WorldThis episode explores the challenges of transplanting PBL outside of a Western culture. T...
#16 - Evolution of a faculty development activity: acting on action and developing the developer
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can you improve faculty development by advancing faculty developers’ role and expertise as educators? We discuss it in this week's paper. We also di...
#15 - Digitization & Despair: Two Cases of Complex Change
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jason introduces a paper that uses case study methodology to look at complex educational interventions, and why so often failEpisode ...
#14 - Movin’ on up on the East side
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 goi...
#13 - Cooking your way through medical school: a hand-on approach to food as an evidence-based intervention
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cooking your way through medical school: a hand-on approach to food as an evidence-based intervention. Teaching health professionals to discuss practi...
#12 - Fidelity or Futility?: Let’s CHAT about WBA
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 impl...
#11 - Break on through to the other side of PIF
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lara brings a book chapter to the discussion which asks if we need to think differently about professional identity formation (PIF). ...
#10 - Ex machina: The disruption of HPE with AI
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chatbots use natural language processing (NLP) to converse and answer questions posed by a human user. Large language models (think billions of langua...
#09 - Are CPD leaders born, made, or did they wander into the wrong room?
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing professional development (CPD) is often considered neglected and needing improvement. So who are the CPD leaders who will deliver on this n...
#08 - Methods Consult - Paradigms
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 profe...
#07 - Moral (or Morale?) development in medical trainees
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Learning is social. Caring for stigmatized patients can have a negative impact on trainees. In this episode we discover how frustration and futility d...
#06 - The Mystery of the Missing Milestone Outcomes
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Assessments that matter is the ultimate goal of any health professions education system. This paper looked at the US surgical milestones rating scores...
#05 - What does it take to make Chris Watling
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 di...
#04 - How CBME makes residents beasts of assessment burden
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The unintended consequence of CBME that this paper addresses is the assessment burden that residents have had to bear with the increase volume of form...
#03 - Should HPE training for PhDs be EPA-based?
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we get to hear a really interesting debate around Entrustable Professional Activites (EPAs) in PhD education as the group look into the chos...
#02 - Uncertainty - That’s what one fears most: Scoping review of uncertainty tolerance highlights why theory matters
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lara Varpio takes the lead discussing a scoping review study examining uncertainty tolerance.The hosts debate questions relevant to y...
#01 - Health Advocacy Education in South Africa
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode Jon presents a South African article that via a curriculum analysis investigates in what ammoung helath advocacy was taught and ...
"It was all my idea" - New podcast in health professions education research
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Intro to this new podcast - PAPERs podcast - Professionals & Academics parsing Education LitteraturFor all of you working in health professionals ...