[4] A former federal Canadian Minister of Health’s prescription for a healthier Canada

10/29/24 • 36 min

Adam invites Dr. Jane Philpott (the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University and former federal Minister of Health) to discuss the changes she’s seen in medical education over her career thus far. Jane also talks about where she sees the field of medical education (as well as Canadian healthcare in general) moving forward in the coming years.

Length of Episode: 35 minutes

Resources to check out :

Dr. Philpott’s book

Health for All : A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada, Publisher McClelland & Stewart, 2024. https://healthsci.queensu.ca/stories/blog/introducing-health-all

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Length of Episode: 35 minutes

Resources to check out :

Dr. Philpott’s book

Health for All : A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada, Publisher McClelland & Stewart, 2024. https://healthsci.queensu.ca/stories/blog/introducing-health-all

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[3] Performance under pressure

Dr. Dan Dworkis joins us to discuss his perspective on performance under pressure and how it applies to teaching residents in clinical practice settings that are sometimes unpredictable and messy. We’re also joined by a guest co-host, Dr. Julie La, who is a PGY5 general surgery resident and PhD student, who provides her perspective on the topic.

Length of Episode: 47:50

Resources to check out :

Dr. Dworkis’ book:

Title

The Emergency Mind: Wiring Your Brain for Performance Under Pressure

Author

Dan Dworkis

Publisher

Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US, 2021

ISBN

9798746482327

Length

228 pages

https://www.amazon.ca/Emergency-Mind-Wiring-Performance-Pressure/dp/B094GY88RK

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[5] Part 1 “The good, the bad, and the future of CBME”

In this episode, Adam is joined by two med ed heavyweights, Dr. Shiphra Ginsburg and Dr. David Taylor, who discuss their views on CBME in Canada in front of a live audience of medical educators. In Part 1 of this lively discussion, our guests discuss whether using EPAs as the unit of measurement in CBME makes sense as well as the challenge of differentiating signal from noise in an assessment environment with so much data.

Length of Episode: 40 minutes

Resources to check out :

Szulewski, A., Braund, H., Dagnone, D. J., McEwen, L., Dalgarno, N., Schultz, K. W., & Hall, A. K. (2023). The assessment burden in competency-based medical education: how programs are adapting. Academic Medicine, 98(11), 1261-1267.

Schumacher DJ, Cate OT, Damodaran A, Richardson D, Hamstra SJ, Ross S, Hodgson J, Touchie C, Molgaard L, Gofton W, Carraccio C; ICBME Collaborators. Clarifying essential terminology in entrustment. Med Teach. 2021 Jul;43(7):737-744. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2021.1924365. Epub 2021 May 14. PMID: 33989100.

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