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DocTalks Presented by PodagogiesDocTalks: Effective Feedback in Medical Education with Dr. Clare HutchinsonIn this episode, Dr. Clare Hutchinson, pediatrician and Interim Assistant Dean of Curricular Innovation at TMU’s School of Medicine, joins Heather and Curtis for a deep dive into the importance of feedback in medical education. Dr. Hutchinson shares how she helps students shift away from the fear of judgment by normalizing feedback from Day One. Drawing on Pendleton’s model and the R2C2 framework, she highlights how focusing on actionable behaviors rather than personal criticism can make feedback more timely, specific, and learner-centered.
Dr. Clare Hutchinson is a Pediatrician and Pediatric Rheumatologist at North York General Hospital. She is a...
2025-10-2419 min
DocTalks Presented by PodagogiesDoc Talks: Embedding Indigenous Health and Reconciliation in Medical Education with Dr. Jamaica CassDr. Jamaica Cass discusses her work in Indigenous health, emphasizing the importance of incorporating decolonization and reconciliation into medical education. She provides insights into her role as the Indigenous health lead, including creating a culturally safe admissions process and developing a longitudinal, mandatory curriculum that addresses the colonial roots of Indigenous health disparities. She also talks about how she approaches her clinical practice serving an Indigenous community and ways to approach this work with care.
As Indigenous Health Lead, Dr. Jamaica Cass will participate in providing guidance in all aspects of work at the school of medicine. This will include...
2025-09-3020 min
DocTalks Presented by PodagogiesDocTalks: CBME and Competence By Design with Dr. Valerie MuellerDr. Valerie Mueller joins DocTalks to continue our mini-series on Competency Based Medical Education (CBME) as TMU welcomes its first cohort of residents.
Dr. Mueller speaks about managing the transition to CBME, and the way in which its formal assessment and documentation processes allow for greater accountability, and earlier intervention and delivery of enhanced education plans.
This episode also unpacks how CBME fits into the broader picture of residency evaluation, including some approaches to goal-setting with residents around Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs).
Dr. Valerie (Val) Mueller is the Associate Dean PGME at TMU SoM. She completed her medical training at...
2025-09-1315 min
DocTalks Presented by PodagogiesDocTalks: CBME and Family Medicine with Dr. Marina MalakDr. Marina Malak joins DocTalks as part of the mini-series on Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) as TMU welcomes its first cohort of residents.
Bringing a family medicine perspective, Dr. Malak explores how CBME is structured by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), including the Triple C curriculum—comprehensive care, continuity, and a focus on family medicine. She unpacks how TMU is building an educational program from the ground up and reflects on assessing complex competencies like professionalism and trust. The episode also tackles how failure can be reframed as growth, the role of cultural context in assessment, and wh...
2025-08-0521 min
DocTalks Presented by PodagogiesDocTalks: CBME 101: Rethinking Medical Training with Dr. Brent ThomaDr. Brent Thoma joins DocTalks to launch our mini-series on Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) as TMU welcomes its first cohort of residents. A national leader in medical education, Dr. Thoma explains key CBME concepts like EPAs, competence committees, and entrustment scores, while reflecting on the shift from time-based to outcomes-based training. He shares insights from his own journey and explores how TMU is building CBME programs with intention—avoiding pitfalls and leveraging lessons from across Canada. Whether you're new to CBME or guiding learners through it, this episode offers an accessible and practical introduction.
Dr. Brent Thoma is a Clinical Pr...
2025-07-0423 minDocTalks Presented by PodagogiesDocTalks: Dr. Pamela Liao and Melissa Helwig on Addressing Accessibility in Medical EducationThis special National AccessAbility Week episode of DocTalks features Dr. Pamela Liao, Disability Health Lead at TMU’s School of Medicine, and Melissa Helwig, Head Medical Librarian. Together, we explore how medical education can become more inclusive for learners with disabilities—from dismantling outdated technical standards to embedding accessibility into curriculum design and library resources. With stories of lived experience and national leadership in disability justice, this conversation highlights how inclusion strengthens care, curriculum, and community.
Dr. Pamela Liao is the disability health lead in the TMU School of Medicine and Special Advisor to the Dean. She's also an Assistant Prof...
2025-05-2223 min
DocTalks Presented by PodagogiesDocTalks: Dr. Aniket Hooda on Teaching in the ERIn this episode of DocTalks, Dr. Aniket Hooda, emergency physician and education lead at Etobicoke General Hospital, reflects on the unique challenges and rewards of teaching in the fast-paced world of emergency medicine. Dr. Hooda shares how he balances clinical care with on-the-spot teaching, sets clear learning objectives, and uses the One-Minute Preceptor model to build clinical reasoning. Reflecting on his own training, he offers strategies for giving meaningful feedback—and reminds us why clinical teaching is a powerful responsibility and privilege.
Dr. Aniket Hooda is an Emergency Physician in the William Osler Health System, and currently serves as both th...
2025-04-2220 min
Back2DifferentHeather Hansen O'Neill - Of Course It's Non-Linear!"Doesn't work up to expectations" was inscribed repeatedly on my report card. Heather's too. She's danced professionally, I coincidentally, and we both love it. We talk about raising thinkers, loving what is whether we like it or not, discovering and working the shift that makes us feel better, and moments of humanity.A community of two, old friends rediscovered, two people finding themselves in the same lifeboat and figuring out how to row, though not identically, together, and, of course, realizing that of course it's non-linear.Join us.Please.Never know w...
2025-04-151h 03
DocTalks Presented by PodagogiesDocTalks: Introduction with Dr. Teresa ChanIn this inaugural episode of DocTalks, we introduce a brand-new branch of Podagogies dedicated to exploring the world of medical education. Co-hosts Curtis Maloley and Chelsea Jones welcome the new DocTalks co-host, Dr. Heather McNeil, Interim Assistant Dean of Faculty Development at the TMU School of Medicine. To kick things off, we’re joined by Dr. Teresa Chan, an educational leader, researcher, and the founding Dean of the School of Medicine. Together, we dive into the evolving role of medical educators, the importance of mentorship, and how technology—from podcasts to AI tutors—is transforming how future healthcare professionals are traine...
2024-11-2934 min
The Brendan O'Neill ShowHeather Mac Donald: DEI is a threat to the WestHeather Mac Donald – Thomas W Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of When Race Trumps Merit – returns for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Heather and Brendan discuss the woke hatred of Western civilisation, how affirmative action undermines excellence and why censorship is not the answer to the rise of anti-Semitism.
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2024-02-221h 01
Infinite TBRE21: The Ebb and Flow of the Smack ShelfSmack and Gabi go over their best (and not so best) recent reads, most of which will be coming or going from the Smack Shelf (a shelf in Gabi’s apartment that contains all the loans from Smack). The incomers are all surprisingly good YA reads while the outgoing books include three powerhouses - a perfect fairy-tale-esque novella, an incredible Malaysian-American ghost story, and a sci-fi novel with maybe the best multiverse worldbuilding we’ve ever seen. Other fun recent reads cover a paladin and necromancer begrudgingly becoming friends, a cat astronaut desperately trying to eat pizza, a Holmes-ian myster...
2023-05-161h 03
The Brendan O'Neill ShowHeather Mac Donald: When race trumps meritHeather Mac Donald returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about her upcoming book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty and Threatens Lives. Heather and Brendan discuss the myth of systemic racism, the problem with affirmative action and how the new ‘anti-racism’ is jeopardising genuine equality.
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2023-04-131h 09
The Brendan O'Neill ShowHysteria has consumed America, with Heather Mac DonaldBestselling author Heather Mac Donald returns to the show to talk about the latest wave of Covid panic and how racial hysteria is destroying high culture.
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2021-08-261h 05
ArtHaus Radio hosted by Bo BartlettArtHaus Radio "Mountains"Mountains are often symbolic for a higher state of being; early civilizations built tall structures or even structures on hills/mountains to be closer to their respective higher powers. Were they on to something? Either way, love and light, y'all!
Playlist:
Rocky Mountain High by The O’Neill Brothers Group
Big Rock Candy Mountain by Harry “Haywire Mac” McClintock
Sugar Mountain by Neil Young
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Mountain’s Shadow by Mutual Benefit
A Bo Story: Ngakso by Choying Drolma & Steve Tibbetts; Mountains by Filippo Cocco; Om Pana Phem Choying Drolma & Steve Tibbetts
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2020-07-161h 02
The Brendan O'Neill ShowCoronavirus and the culture war, with Heather Mac DonaldHeather Mac Donald, New York Times bestselling author and Thomas W Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the devastation wrought by the Covid-19 lockdowns.
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2020-04-141h 10
Beer For BreakfastBeer For Breakfast Guests: Shandra MacNeill (Brandon Folk, Music, and Art Festival); and John Chase, Heather Forgie, and Chris Reid (Merlyn Productions’ The Brothers Grimm).
2016-07-092h 04