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In Practice: When Learners Stop Thinking Out Loud (EP:47) With Stacy Craft, M.Ed In this episode of In Practice, Stacy explores the subtle but important difference between coaching and evaluation, and how the way learners experience those interactions can shape openness, growth, and the learning process itself. Questions? Feedback? Ideas? Contact us at edufi@mayo.edu Additional Resources: AMA ChangeMedEd® Coaching in Medical Education Series Gawande, A. (2011, October 3). Personal best. The

In Practice: The 5-Minute Teaching Playbook (EP:46) With Stacy Craft, M.Ed What can we realistically teach in five minutes? In environments where time is limited and demands are constant, educating rarely happens in structured sessions. It happens in motion. And yet, these brief moments hold more potential than we often realize. In this “In Practice” episode, we explore what meaningful teaching can look like when time is constrained. Drawing from experiences working alongside educators, we ex

From Literacy to Savviness: Rethinking How We Learn with AI (EP:45) With Chris Minter, PHD How do we stay thoughtful, skilled, and grounded as AI accelerates faster than our instincts can adapt? In this episode, we explore the shift from simply knowing about AI to becoming truly savvy in how we use it. Chris Minter invites us to consider how contextual inputs, desired outputs, and intentional engagement shape our ability to think clearly in an age of intelligent tools. Together, we examine the

Co-Creating Care: Lessons from the Stage (EP:44) With Marco Antonio de Carvalho Filho, MD, PHD If medical education is meant to prepare people for the emotional realities of patient care, what might change if we taught students not only to do the work, but to fully inhabit the person they are becoming while doing it? Join host Stacy Craft, and guest Professor Dr. Carvalho Filho, as we explore an unexpected but deeply powerful intersection: the meeting of theater and medical education. Dr. Marco

Aligning Person and Profession: The Work of Identity Formation in Medical Education—and Beyond (EP:43) With Joke Fleer What if the future of medicine depends not just on what learners know—but on who they are becoming? In this thought-provoking episode we sit down with psychologist and medical education expert Joke Fleer to explore the invisible but powerful process of professional identity formation. From the unspoken cultural norms that shape future physicians, to the risks of unchecked assump

EDU Central REDUX –Building Memory with Science and Senses – Put on Your Thinking Cap (EP:42) With Stella Collins, MSc. This month, we are revisiting a classic episode from 2021. Creating effective learning can be complicated – from our biology to our environment, there are a lot of elements that influence outcomes. And how can we get our learners curious anyway, especially in our increasingly digital spaces? Grab a hat and put it on (we mean it…. we’ll wait while you go get it) because in thi