Derek Louey

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Tying up loose ends

HPE research is increasingly addressing population gaps ranging from the learner's access to & experience of education to the community's access to & experience of healthcare

But do we have better theories to inform the concrete pedagogical steps to improving them together?

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It is useful to research the diversity of learner & patient experiences, the influence of power in discourses & decisions in HPE, and to prescribe fairer processes or procedures. But have we investigated stakeholder thought processes & motivations to ensure transparent debate?

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Inflammation - one word to describe dozens of varied cellular and humoral events in response to a variety of acute and chronic stimuli.

Tim Wilkinson makes the provocative suggestion that a chaotic curriculum prepares learners better for the complexities of healthcare

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HPE research that is theory informed

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Change management in HPE is wiggly

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If we suspect reduced effectiveness of burnt out clinicians, I wonder what is the impact of burnt out health professions educators? #ANZAHPE2025

Lots of burnt out educators #ANZAHPE2025

Getting real at #ANZAHPE2025

Are generational differences in professionalism a myth?

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It's not that AI will forcible replace humans but that we will just allow it to happen #ANZAHPE2025

Do clinicians have the same capacity to hallucinate and behave erratically like AI? #ANZAHPE2025

Do competency frameworks serve as useful education models?

Learning and performance is not a pyramid, flower, or Venn diagram. How should we represent the complex and inter-related domains pertaining to competence, expertise, & the varied work of health professionals?

Explain how your findings can benefit society

Explain how your findings can impact educational practices

Build upon existing theories if it frames the research better. Alternatively, draw in theories as a counterpoint to your findings.

Hook in the audience by explaining how the research could contribute to a solution

Explain what practical problem might this research solve?

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Provide a problem-gap-hook that makes the audience want to engage with your research

The future of Health Professions Education scholarship

For more societal impact Health Professions Education Research needs better:
#Boyer #knowledgegaps #implementationscience

Taxonomies of Learning

Who is being served by HPE research?

The HPE literature is mostly a random collection of empirical observations with few theories to explain how they all fit together. Of the theories that do exist, many of them are too abstract & inaccessible to grass-roots educators.

Education does not involve the teacher running ahead of the learner, but alongside them

I am sad to hear that the @PapersPodcast produced their last episode this week.

Thanks for headlining some of the key conversations in our field. May these continue in the health professions education community with ongoing scholarly rigour.

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AI is one of the of the greatest social disruptors of this generation. It challenges everything we assume about the nature of knowledge and meaning. It questions notions of mind and cognition. We might not understand it, but we are in its midst & it is deeply affecting our world

In comparison, AI draws its conclusions on datasets that no single human can ever process. It continues to refine its knowledge base when further information challenges its pre-existing representations. Each query an opportunity to learn. It is relentless. We sleep, it computes

Moreover, we jump to conclusions from limited information. We see patterns when there are none. Our minds can be fooled or misled. We simply do not have the cognitive resources to verify all our hypotheses and propositions.