In this podcast, Series 5, Chapter 1, Dr. Barsuk interviews Jim Farruggio. Jim is a professional actor and standardized patient in Chicago. His acting career involves numerous appearances in the theatre and on television and film. His television and film credits include Heist 88, Fargo, Empire, Chicago Fire, Proven Innocent, The Playboy Club, Batman Dark Knight, and many more. Jim's full resume can be found at https://resumes.breakdownexpress.com/341224-2035870-365. Dr. Barsuk and Jim discuss life as an actor and standardized patient.

In this podcast, Series 4, Chapter 9, Dr. Barsuk interviews Dr. Matthew Charnetski. Matt is the Director of Simulation-Based Education and Research at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH.  Matt is also a term lecturer in the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions Masters in Health Professions Education Program in the Simulation Operations Track. He clinically is a paramedic but recently received a PhD in Health Professions Education at Maastricht University. He is the president-elect for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH). Drs. Barsuk and Charnetski talk about his plans for SSH.

In this podcast, Series 4, Chapter 8, Dr. Barsuk interviews Molly Schoblocher. Molly has an MBA in Emergency Management and Public Safety Communications, and a certificate in Healthcare Emergency Manager (Professional) through the Association of Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Professionals. She also serves as the Vice Chair for the Academic Healthcare Emergency Management Consortium. She currently serves as the system director of Emergency Management and Business Continuity at Northwestern Memorial Healthcare. Dr. Barsuk and Mrs. Schoblocher talk about using simulation to prepare hospital systems for mass casualty incidents.

In this podcast, Series 4, Chapter 7, Dr. Barsuk interviews Dr. Jayfus Doswell. Dr. Doswell has a PhD in Information Technology focused on artificial intelligence to improve human learning and performance. He started his career as the youngest senior software engineer at Lockheed Martin. Years later, he founded and became the president and CEO of a biomedical company, Juxtopia, where he has received several government grants to develop educational hardware and software using AI to improve medical training. Drs. Barsuk and Doswell discuss how AI and virtual simulation can be used for training and assessment.

In this podcast, Series 4, Chapter 6, Dr. Barsuk interviews Dr. Martin Pusic, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Associate Faculty for Boston Children’s Hospital and Scholar-in-Residence at the Brigham Education Institute, Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. Dr. Pusic serves as Director of the American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation. He is a medical doctor practicing as a pediatric emergency physician but also received a Doctor of Philosophy in Cognition and Learning. His research focuses on learning analytics and the role and impact of research, data, and informatics on medical education and learning. Drs. Barsuk and Pusic talk about research in medical education and initiatives at the ABMS.

In this podcast, Series 4, Chapter 5, Dr. Barsuk interviews Dr. Diane Wayne, professor of medicine in the Departments of Medicine and Medical Education and former Internal Medicine Program Director and Vice Dean of Education at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.  Dr. Wayne  is currently the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.  Drs. Barsuk and Wayne discuss how simulation-based mastery learning can be used to train clinicians across the entire spectrum of students, residents, fellows, and practicing clinicians.

In this podcast, Series 4, Chapter 4, Dr. Barsuk interviews Dr. Lars Konge who is a professor of medicine in the Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Copenhagen, cardiothoracic surgeon, and has a  PhD in assessment.  Dr. Konge also serves as the director of the Simulation Center at Rigshospitalet, in Copenhagen Denmark.  Drs. Barsuk and Konge discuss proficiency-based education (mastery learning) and certification of technical skills using simulation.

In this podcast, Series 4, Chapter 3, Dr. Barsuk interviews Dr. Brian Garibaldi, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Garibaldi also serves as the Charles Horace Mayo Professor and the Director of the Northwestern Center for Bedside Medicine. Drs. Barsuk and Garibaldi discuss training in bedside medicine using simulation.

In this podcast, Series 4, Chapter 2, Dr. Barsuk interviews Dr. Carl Wieman, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Graduate Education at Stanford University. Dr. Wieman was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work producing the first true Bose-Einstein condensate.  More relevant to simulation, he received a Yidan Prize in education research for his contribution in developing new techniques and tools in STEM education using the science of expertise.  Drs. Barsuk and Wieman discuss the science of expertise and how it can be applied to medical education.

In this podcast, Series 4, Chapter 1, Dr. Barsuk interviews Dr. Roy Soetikno, gastroenterologist, advanced endoscopist, and Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco.  Dr.  Soetikno is internationally renowned for his efforts to disseminate knowledge about simulation-based mastery learning in endoscopy. They discuss Dr. Soetikno's international work on improving endoscopy training through the use of the science of expertise and simulation-based mastery learning.