In this episode of CLIMEcast, CLIME Associate Director Kate Mulligan sits down with Dr. Grace Huang, Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, to explore how educators can transform their teaching ideas into meaningful scholarship. Dr. Huang shares her nonlinear journey into medical education, practical advice for getting started, and insights on both traditional and innovative ways to disseminate scholarly work—from MedEdPORTAL to digital scholarship...

In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Potter explores the importance of trauma-informed approaches in medical education. Building on her Grand Rounds presentation, Dr. Potter shares practical strategies for recognizing and responding to trauma in learners, creating supportive learning environments, and promoting resilience and well-being. She introduces key frameworks like the “Four R’s” and six guiding principles of trauma-informed care, and highlights how these approaches benefit all learners, not ...

In this episode, Dr. Brad Sharpe dives into the power of authentic connections in medical education. Building on his Grand Rounds presentation, "What's in a Name? Authentic Connections in Medical Education," Dr. Sharpe shares practical tips for fostering a positive learning climate, emphasizes the link between connection and psychological safety, and explores how genuine relationships can drive motivation and improve educational outcomes. Tune in for insightful strategies to enhance teaching ...

In this episode, CLIME Associate Director, Kate Mulligan talks with Michael Campion about precision medical education. They explore how personalized learning approaches could enhance the training of future healthcare professionals. Join us as we discuss innovative strategies for integrating data-driven insights into curriculum and assessment, fostering individualized learning paths, and ultimately improving outcomes in medical education. Resources: Exploring Precision Medical Education...

In this episode, CLIME Associate Director, Kate Mulligan talks with Dr. Audrea Burns about cultivating professional identity in medical education.Despite ongoing social and political disruptions, medical education has continued to refine how we can best cultivate the professional identities of our learners and faculty. Dr.Burns highlights current challenges in professionalism through discussion of emerging frameworks to support an antiracist and inclusive environment to allow for all members ...

In this episode our guest, Rachel Umoren, MBBCh, MS, joins Kate Mulligan, PhD to discuss Virtual Simulation in Medical Education. General Resources: Virtual Simulation in Medical Education TranscriptSimulation and Game-Based Learning for the Health Professions by Rachel UmorenHealthcare Simulation DictionarySociety for Simulation in HealthcareVirtual prenatal counseling simulator JMIR Medical Education - Increasing Realism and Variety of Virtual Patient Dialogues for Prenat...

In this episode our guest, Nicole Woods, PhD joins Kate Mulligan, PhD to discuss how we can re-think the integration of basic and clinical sciences in medical education. Collaborative Advocacy & Partnered Education (CAPE)The Wilson CentreCLIME Grand Rounds

In this episode our guest, Molly Jackson, MD joins Kate Mulligan, PhD to discuss what the UWSOM Colleges program and how it brings a personalized approach to medical education and provides a deepening understanding of both fundamental clinical skills and professionalism.

In this episode David Masuda and Kate Mulligan pick up from the Part 1 and get into a few more resilience coping skills you can try in your classroom and will cover the last category for advancing student wellbeing, connecting to the environment. UW Resilience Lab Well Being for Life and Learning Guidebook Pedagogy of the Distressed, Jane Tompkins Texas Well-Being: Promoting Well-being in UT Learning Environments UCLA Health Guided Meditations

In this episode our guest, David Masuda, MD joins Kate Mulligan, PhD to discuss how to incorporate teaching practices that foster wellbeing and encourage resilience to humanize the classroom. Resources: UW Resilience Lab Well Being for Life and Learning Guidebook Pedagogy of the Distressed, Jane Tompkins Texas Well-Being: Promoting Well-being in UT Learning Environments UCLA Health Guided Meditations

In this episode our CLIMEcast host and Associate Director Kate Mulligan, PhD talks with Anne Browning, PhD and Megan Kennedy, MA, LMHC about the importance of centering student well-being in higher education, and specifically in our health sciences educational programs. *Correction: Megan Kennedy joined the UW Resilience Lab in 2019 not 2018. Resources UW Resilience LabWell-Being for Life & Learning GuidebookBe REAL ProgramThe Engelhard Project for Connecting Life and LearningImpact of...

Get to know the new CLIME Director and Assistant Dean for Educator Development Dr. Kristina Dzara. Dr. Dzara began her new position at the University of Washington School of Medicine in April 2022. Show Notes: CLIME Teaching Scholars Program Lau, Dzara, Khachadoorian-Elia, and Berkowitz. 2021. “The ‘Medical Education Roadshow:’ Delivering Faculty Development to Busy Clinician Educators When They Least Expect It.” Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions. ...

In this episode, we explore a wealth of readily accessible resources and practical tips to go beyond just acknowledging ableism and eliminating ableist behavior, to actively supporting our disabled friends and colleagues. Show Resources: Bias Training: UW implicit bias training, which includes disability material (this is now required to be on search committees and is freely available to the UW community). Disability Attitudes Implicit Association Test (DA-IAT) freely available at Projec...

In this episode, our guest speakers "Evans and Feldner" share data from their CLIME-funded research project on the lived experience of ableism and allyship of students, staff and faculty at the University of Washington, who identify as D/deaf, disabled, living with a disability, or as having a chronic health condition. Show Resources: Bias Training: UW implicit bias training, which includes disability material (this is now required to be on search committees and is freely availa...

Episode 1 of our Anti-ableism and Disability Allyship in Medical Education Series. In this episode our guests, Drs. Heather Feldner and Heather Evans, guide us through foundational concepts of disability, ableism and allyship, unraveling important terminology, and emphasizing the importance of language. Show Resources: Bias Training: UW implicit bias training, which includes disability material (this is now required to be on search committees and is freely available to the UW commun...

Dr. Addie McClintock is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She practices at the University of Washington Women’s Health Care Center where she also runs the women’s health training pathway for the internal medicine residency. Dr. Tyra Fainstad and Dr. Addie McClintock have teamed up to develop a two-prong approach to help us help our learners manage the impact of impostor phenomenon and expl...

Tyra Fainstad, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine. In this episode Dr. Fainstad defines impostor phenomenon, how to recognize it in our learners, and strategies you can share with your learners to help them manage it. Dr. Fainstad will be sharing her wisdom about the characteristics and impact of impostor phenomenon and offering powerful strategies that educators can use to help learners manage it.

Kali Hobson, MD., Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA and Roberto Montenegro, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA In this podcast, Drs. Kali Hobson and Roberto Montenegro describe the methods they have developed to continuously review and revise curricular content to reduce b...

In this podcast Edwin Lindo, JD, CLIME’s Associate Director of Critical Teaching and Equity and William Harris, MD, the block lead for the University of Washington School of Medicine’s Blood and Cancer Block discuss how they worked together to improve a presentation on health outcome inequality, with a specific focus on breast cancer in African American women. We created this podcast to highlight Edwin’s work as a consultant with CLIME. He is available to assist faculty in making their teachi...

In this podcast, Belinda Fu, MD, (aka “theImprovDoc”) discusses how improv transformed her life and propelled her to found The Mayutica Institute, an educational training company, co-organize an Annual International Medical Improv Trainer Workshops, and establish ImprovDoc.org, an educational resource about the use of improvisation in medicine. She shares her approach to teaching improv as well as her personal experience of the transformative power of learning how to listen to others and ones...