Transitioning from residency to academic medicine can feel exciting, overwhelming, and full of hidden expectations. In this episode, our esteemed guest Drs. Tina Phan and Elisa Sottile share practical strategies for building sustainable careers as clinician educators. They discuss using Ikigai to identify meaningful work, Schlossberg's Transition Theory to navigate career transitions, the importance of mentorship networks, recognizing the hidden curriculum of academic medicine, and applying job crafting to rediscover purpose at work and prevent burnout. Whether you're just beginning your career or reassessing your current role, this episode provides practical frameworks for building a long, meaningful, and flourishing career.

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Credits

• Producers: Molly Heublein MD, Mike KW Cheng MD, MAEd, and Era Kryzhanovskaya MD
• Show notes & Infographics: Era Kryzhanovskaya, MD
• Hosts: Mike KW Cheng MD, MAEd and Molly Heublein MD
• Editor: Era Kryzhanovskaya MD, Mike KW Cheng MD, MAEd, Molly Heublein MD
• Peer Reviewer: Keith Dickerson, MD
• Guests: Dr. Tina Phan, Dr. Elisa Sottile
• Technical support: Podpaste
• Theme Music: MorsyMusic

• Intro, disclaimer, guest bio
• Guests one-liner/ passion outside of medicine
• Guests’s highlights of AIMW26 and motivations to present their workshops
• Using Ikigai
• Schlossberg's Transition Theory to navigate career transitions
• Importance of Mentorship networks
• Recognizing the hidden curriculum of academic medicine
• Applying job crafting to rediscover purpose and prevent burnout
• Outro

Come on the adventure with Drs. Ray Bignall and Lauren Phinney as we discuss the highlights from the first day of the AIMW26 Conference, the Opening Plenary, and the mesmerizing educational sessions.

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Credits

• Producer, Writer, Graphics: Mike KW Cheng MD, MAEd
• Hosts: Era Kryzhanovskaya MD, Mike KW Cheng MD, MAEd
• Editors: Era Kryzhanovskaya MD, Mike KW Cheng MD, MAEd, and Molly Heublein MD
• Reviewer: Era Kryzhanovskaya MD
• Guests: O. N. Ray Bignall II, MD, FAAP, FASN and Lauren Phinney, MD
• Technical support: Podpaste
• Theme Music: MorsyMusic

Show Segments

• Intro, disclaimer, guest bio
• Guest one-liner
• Experience at AIMW26 thus far
• The five lessons of mentorship
• Mentorship is a network
• The importance of sharing and reflecting on mentee stories
• Different avenues to set up mentor relationships
• Bridging the generational gap in academic medicine
• Best practices for generative AI and LLMS
• The hidden tax of volunteerism in medical education

Explore how artificial intelligence is transforming medical education with insights from Drs. Eric Burnett (Columbia) and Alexander Glaser (Pennsylvania Hospital, UPenn), recorded live at AIMW26. This episode breaks down practical ways educators are using AI- from feedback tools and clinical reasoning support to EHR integration- while tackling real concerns like deskilling, bias, and academic integrity. Walk away with actionable frameworks and strategies to help learners use AI effectively, ethically, and in a way that actually improves their skills.

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Credits

• Producer, Show Notes, CME: Molly Heublein MD
• Script: Mike Cheng MD
• Infographic/ Cover Art: ChatGPT and Molly Heublein MD
• Hosts: Mike Cheng MD, Molly Heublein MD
• Editor: Era Kryzhanovskaya MD
• Guests: Eric Burnett MD, Alexander Glaser MD
• Technical support: Podpaste
• Theme Music: MorsyMusic

Show Segments

• Intro, disclaimer, guest bio
• Guest one-liner/ Best piece of advice
• Benefits of AI
• Risks of AI
• Institutional Policies and Guidelines around using AI in MedEd
• Frameworks for Assessing AI Use
• Practical Considerations and Future Directions
• How to get started with AI as an Educator
• Balancing Climate/societal Concerns
• Outro

Join us as we journey through how to best improve our teaching and learning environments for Gen Z learners with guests from 3 different workshops at AIMW26 related to the topic. You will walk away with practical tips to enhance teaching, learning, and mentoring with Mrs. Deena Segal and Drs. Elle Newcome and Sanjay A. Patel.

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Credits

• Producer, Writer, Graphics: Era Kryzhanovskaya, MD
• Hosts: Era Kryzhanovskaya MD, Mike KW Cheng, MD, MAEd
• Editor: Era Kryzhanovskaya MD, Mike KW Cheng, MD, MAEd
• Reviewer: Molly Heublein MD
• Guest: Mrs. Deena Segal, Drs. Elle Newcome and Sanjay Patel
• Technical support: Podpaste
• Theme Music: MorsyMusic

• Producer, Writer, Graphics: Era Kryzhanovskaya, MD
• Hosts: Era Kryzhanovskaya MD, Molly Heublein MD
• Editor: Era Kryzhanovskaya MD, Molly Heublein MD, Mike KW Cheng, MD, MAEd
• Reviewer: Mike KW Cheng, MD, MAEd
• Guest: Erick Hung, MD; Jimmy Beck, MD.
• Technical support: Podpaste
• Theme Music: MorsyMusic

• Intro, disclaimer, guest bio
• Guest one-liner/ Best piece of advice
• Definitions: What is educational theory?
• Can you be a great teacher without theory?
• Translating theory to practice: concrete examples
• Faculty development for busy clinicians
• Practical tips and low-barrier strategies
• Motivational theories and the “warm demander”
• Take home points
• Outro

• Producer, Writer, Graphics: Molly Heublein MD
• Hosts: Era Kryzhanovskaya MD, Molly Heublein MD
• Editor: Era Kryzhanovskaya MD, Molly Heublein MD
• Guest: Elizabeth Gatewood, DNP, FNP-C, CNE, FAANP, FAAN
• Technical support: Podpaste
• Theme Music: MorsyMusic

• Intro, disclaimer, guest bio
• Guest one-liner/ Best piece of advice
• Challenges to clinical teaching
• Establishing a learning climate/orienting a learner
• Goals and Feedback
• Teaching clinical reasoning/One Minute Preceptor
• Debriefing
• Teaching on the fly
• Focusing on Pearls
• Setting expectations
• Take home points
• Outro

• Producer CME: Molly Heublein MD
• Hosts, editors: Era Kryzhanovskaya MD, Molly Heublein MD
• Script, show notes, infographics: Karishma Patel MD
• Technical Support: Podpaste
• Guest: John Erickson MD, Matthew Clark DO
• Theme Music: MorsyMusic

• Intro, guest bio
• 7:23 Reflecting on mistakes in medicine
• 12:50 Background on M&M conferences
• 13:24: Case from Kashlack Memorial
• 14:19 Benefits of M&M conferences
• 20:18 Creating a culture of psychological safety
• 25:23 Planning M&M conferences, coaching residents on planning M&M conferences
• 31:40 M&M curriculum for residents
• 41:17 Quality improvement tools and frameworks
• 45:05 Navigating difficult conversations
• 48:30 Structure of M&M
• 52:23 Turning M&M learning points into systemic change
• 57:43 Takeaways
• Outros

• Producer, Script, Cover Art, CME: Era Kryzhanovskaya MD
• Show notes, CME: Era Kryzhanovskaya MD, Charlotte Chaiklin MD
• Hosts, Editors: Era Kryzhanovskaya MD, Molly Heublein MD
• Technical Support: Podpaste
• Peer Reviewer: Keith Scott Dickerson, MD, MS-BME
• Guests: Noriko Anderson, MD
• Technical support: Podpaste
• Theme Music: MorsyMusic

• Intro, disclaimer, guest bio, guest recommendations and favorite failure
• Picks of the week
• Case #1 from Kashlak Memorial Hospital
• Creating goals and objectives
• Bloom’s taxonomy
• Types of objectives
• Miller’s Pyramid
• Case #2 from Kashlak Memorial Hospital
• Talk with others and ask for help
• Take-home points
• Outro