In this episode, we are joined by Dr Thomas Bond a flexible portfolio trainee and the host of the MEMCast podcast to learn about this option for a varied career during training.

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https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/doctors-training/flexible-portfolio-training

In this special live episode, recorded at ASME’s 2025 Annual Scholarship Meeting in Edinburgh, we sit down with keynote speakers Prof. Rola Ajjawi, Prof. Margaret Bearman, and Dr. Abigail Konopasky. Together, we explore some of the conference’s most compelling themes — from learner agency and the role of AI in clinical education to the ethical questions these innovations raise.

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In this episode, we are joined by Dr Akash Doshi creator and founder of Mind the Bleep, a free online platform dedicated to doctors and healthcare professionals to aid them in managing work-based challenges with ease.

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In this episode, we are joined by Dr Leah Williams, the Phase One Simulation lead in the School of Medicine at the University of Sunderland. She has created an innovative teaching workshop, SIMLive!, a session that combines simulated medical scenarios with an interactive quiz, and has gone on to publish work exploring barriers to clinical reasoning in high-fidelity simulation.

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Papers and Resources Mentioned: Williams, L. (2024). Exploring medical student perceptions of barriers to clinical reasoning in high-fidelity simulation: a qualitative study. The Clinical Teacher, 21, e13773. https://doi.org/10.1111/tct.13773

In this episode, Mark and Neil are joined by Dr Amie Burbridge to discuss all things clinical reasoning.

Dr Amie Burbridge is a Consultant in Acute Medicine at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW). Alongside her clinical role, she is also actively involved in teaching and supporting junior doctors and medical trainees. Dr. Burbridge also hosts the popular podcast "Home of Medicine," which discusses challenging medical cases with a focus on cognitive biases and clinical reasoning.

Dr Amie Burbridge on X: @AmieBurbridge

Home of Medicine Podcast:

https://open.spotify.com/show/0F4K22qMBQZPdg4u3lLqgE?si=e9dfba501e634f3c

Resources Mentioned:

UK Clinical Reasoning in Medical Education Group (CReME) - https://www.creme.org.uk/

Clinical Reasoning Assessment Methods: A Scoping Review and Practical Guidance by Daniel et al. (2019) - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30720527/

Common problems: a safe diagnostic strategy by Murtagh (1990) - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2346427/

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As part of our work focusing on careers in medical education, we wanted to cover some of the roles in postgraduate clinical education that we may have less awareness of.

In this episode, we’re going to find out about the role of a Director of Medical Education (DME) with Dr Jason Hancock who is a consultant psychiatrist and Director of Medical Education, Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Hon. Clinical Associate Professor, University of Exeter

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Many early-career educators seek opportunities to balance a formal, paid teaching role in medical education alongside clinical training—beyond the traditional research-focused ACF pathway or honorary titles that demand personal time. Today, we are joined by three excellent colleagues and fellow TASME committee members to discuss how they manage balancing medical education and clinical duties.

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In this episode we will be discussing the role of patient educators in undergraduate medical education with Jools Symons the Patient & Public Involvement Manager and Communication Skills Lead at the Leeds Institute of Medical Education.

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As part of our work focusing on careers in medical education, we wanted to cover some of the roles in postgraduate clinical education that we may have less awareness of.

Today, we’re going to find out about the role of a training programme director (TPD) with Dr Dan Fumerage @danfurmedge, who is the regional TPD for Internal Medicine Stage 1 Training in South East London, a Consultant Geriatrician and RCP Censor.

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This month we were joined by Dr Nat Quail. Nat is an ST3 doctor in infectious diseases and microbiology based in the west of Scotland and honorary clinical lecturer at the University of Glasgow. He was also the runner up in TASME’s Teaching Innovation or Excellence (TIE) prize this year for his work on his online simulation around insulin prescribing which was aptly named ‘Sim-sulin’. We spoke to Nat about his project, how he came up with the idea, how he experienced both benefits and challenges of using technology to create his online simulation and what lessons he learnt from this project.

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Papers and Resources Mentioned: https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-023-04231-2

https://twinery.org/