Robert Sternszus
@rsternszus.bsky.social
Pediatrician & Clinician Educator at McGill University. Scholarship and teaching focuses on professional identity formation, authenticity, agency & belonging. Father of 2. Former NICU parent. Go Habs Go!
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Faculty tend to teach how they were taught. Concepts like productive struggle are complex & (sometimes) uncomfortable for faculty. Where are safe spaces for faculty to practice these skills, so they can integrate into clinical teaching confidently? A call for engagement with FacDev? #ICRE2025
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Faculty tend to teach how they were taught. Concepts like productive struggle are complex & (sometimes) uncomfortable for faculty. Where are safe spaces for faculty to practice these skills, so they can integrate into clinical teaching confidently? A call for engagement with FacDev? #ICRE2025
@maxfg98.bsky.social suggests ‘That was good [end]’ is one of the worst feedback you can receive. It suggests that the supervisor knows it wasn’t ‘great’ but doesn’t really believe that you can do better @icreconf.bsky.social #ICRE2025
October 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
@maxfg98.bsky.social suggests ‘That was good [end]’ is one of the worst feedback you can receive. It suggests that the supervisor knows it wasn’t ‘great’ but doesn’t really believe that you can do better @icreconf.bsky.social #ICRE2025
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How can we design curriculum to
Capitalize on appropriate productive struggle? Especially in the high risk high stress environment our learners inhabit? #ICRE2025.
Capitalize on appropriate productive struggle? Especially in the high risk high stress environment our learners inhabit? #ICRE2025.
October 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
How can we design curriculum to
Capitalize on appropriate productive struggle? Especially in the high risk high stress environment our learners inhabit? #ICRE2025.
Capitalize on appropriate productive struggle? Especially in the high risk high stress environment our learners inhabit? #ICRE2025.
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Adaptive expertise involves *embracing* the unknown, learning to thrive in ambiguity.
Love the term epistemic humility.
#meded
@icreconf.bsky.social
Love the term epistemic humility.
#meded
@icreconf.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Adaptive expertise involves *embracing* the unknown, learning to thrive in ambiguity.
Love the term epistemic humility.
#meded
@icreconf.bsky.social
Love the term epistemic humility.
#meded
@icreconf.bsky.social
Psychological safety is not synonymous with feeling comfortable. Important insights about psychological safety and productive struggle @icreconf.bsky.social #ICRE2025
October 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Psychological safety is not synonymous with feeling comfortable. Important insights about psychological safety and productive struggle @icreconf.bsky.social #ICRE2025
@icreconf.bsky.social Great start to the day with a discussion of productive struggle and adaptive expertise. Proud of @maxfg98.bsky.social representing the McGill IHSE in this important discussion
October 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
@icreconf.bsky.social Great start to the day with a discussion of productive struggle and adaptive expertise. Proud of @maxfg98.bsky.social representing the McGill IHSE in this important discussion
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#FirstPost
I’m Brandon, an Internal Medicine physician and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in Canada. I am passionate about how “big data” from electronic health systems can be used to improve feedback, learning, and assessment in #MedEd
harvardmacy.org/blog/data-dr...
I’m Brandon, an Internal Medicine physician and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in Canada. I am passionate about how “big data” from electronic health systems can be used to improve feedback, learning, and assessment in #MedEd
harvardmacy.org/blog/data-dr...
Harvard Macy Institute - Blog - Shaping the Future of Medical Education through Data-Driven Learning
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December 12, 2024 at 9:42 PM
#FirstPost
I’m Brandon, an Internal Medicine physician and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in Canada. I am passionate about how “big data” from electronic health systems can be used to improve feedback, learning, and assessment in #MedEd
harvardmacy.org/blog/data-dr...
I’m Brandon, an Internal Medicine physician and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in Canada. I am passionate about how “big data” from electronic health systems can be used to improve feedback, learning, and assessment in #MedEd
harvardmacy.org/blog/data-dr...
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Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year: ‘polarization’ www.pbs.org/newshour/art... via @pbsnews.bsky.social
Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year: ‘polarization’
“Polarization means division, but it’s a very specific kind of division,” said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press ahead of Monday'...
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December 9, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year: ‘polarization’ www.pbs.org/newshour/art... via @pbsnews.bsky.social
Hugely important topic
That said, I struggle with the framing that we need to care about physician well-being because well physicians provide better care.
While this is true, can we not just care about physician well-being because physicians are people and we care about people? #humanism
#MedEd
That said, I struggle with the framing that we need to care about physician well-being because well physicians provide better care.
While this is true, can we not just care about physician well-being because physicians are people and we care about people? #humanism
#MedEd
Clinician well-being is essential for safe, high-quality patient care.
The Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience aims to convene, publish, and shape the national conversation related to clinician anxiety and burnout. Learn more about #ClinicianWellBeing: nam.edu/cw
The Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience aims to convene, publish, and shape the national conversation related to clinician anxiety and burnout. Learn more about #ClinicianWellBeing: nam.edu/cw
December 9, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Learning about trust, difficult conversations, belonging and authenticity with Jerry Maniate. Love this message
We cannot conflate uncomfortable and unsafe
#MedEd
We cannot conflate uncomfortable and unsafe
#MedEd
November 28, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Learning about trust, difficult conversations, belonging and authenticity with Jerry Maniate. Love this message
We cannot conflate uncomfortable and unsafe
#MedEd
We cannot conflate uncomfortable and unsafe
#MedEd
This sums it all up 👇
November 24, 2024 at 9:27 PM
This sums it all up 👇
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November 24, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 2
#Booksky #20books #Bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 2
#Booksky #20books #Bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge
November 23, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 2
#Booksky #20books #Bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 2
#Booksky #20books #Bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge
As clinician educators, we often talk about helping students reflect on the hard stuff. This is important. And so is reflecting on the joys of becoming a physician. This study in PME explores this through medical student portfolios.
pmejournal.org/articles/10....
pmejournal.org/articles/10....
Struggles and Joys: A Mixed Methods Study of the Artefacts and Reflections in Medical Student Portfolios | Perspectives on Medical Education
Perspectives on Medical Education’s mission is to support and enrich collaborative scholarship between education researchers and clinical educators, and to advance new knowledge regarding clinic...
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November 23, 2024 at 12:48 AM
As clinician educators, we often talk about helping students reflect on the hard stuff. This is important. And so is reflecting on the joys of becoming a physician. This study in PME explores this through medical student portfolios.
pmejournal.org/articles/10....
pmejournal.org/articles/10....
I often wonder about the unintended consequences of the need to ‘document everything’ in CBME.
This interesting paper by an amazing team explores: What can/can’t be easily documented? What should be documented? And What shouldn’t be documented?
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“Praise in Public; Criticize in Private”: Unwritable... : Academic Medicine
ntly examined how well the undocumented information lends itself to being written as comments. Because missing information threatens the validity of assessment processes, this study examined the perfo...
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November 21, 2024 at 2:02 AM
I often wonder about the unintended consequences of the need to ‘document everything’ in CBME.
This interesting paper by an amazing team explores: What can/can’t be easily documented? What should be documented? And What shouldn’t be documented?
journals.lww.com/academicmedi...
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Excited to see our book is OUT. Please check out this incredible collection. The AMA commissioned this new publication as part of an effort to reimagine how we can advance equity and justice in #MedEd.
www.us.elsevierhealth.com/reimagining-...
www.us.elsevierhealth.com/reimagining-...
Reimagining Medical Education: The Future of Hea - 9780443286711
Inequities in health care and medical education have a long and complex history involving racism, sexism, ableism, exclusivity, and other forms of social injustice. Reimagining Medical Education: The ...
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November 19, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Excited to see our book is OUT. Please check out this incredible collection. The AMA commissioned this new publication as part of an effort to reimagine how we can advance equity and justice in #MedEd.
www.us.elsevierhealth.com/reimagining-...
www.us.elsevierhealth.com/reimagining-...
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Amazing and thought-provoking article from @javeedsukhera.bsky.social et al. #MedEd
"Medical education research should aspire to generate not only knowledge that is useful but also knowledge that is used."
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"Medical education research should aspire to generate not only knowledge that is useful but also knowledge that is used."
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What Are We Made For? Mobilizing Medical Education Research ... : Academic Medicine
educe costs, promote equity, and inform policy. However, the gap between research and practice requires attention and reflection. In this commentary, the authors reflect on ways that medical education...
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November 19, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Amazing and thought-provoking article from @javeedsukhera.bsky.social et al. #MedEd
"Medical education research should aspire to generate not only knowledge that is useful but also knowledge that is used."
journals.lww.com/academicmedi...
"Medical education research should aspire to generate not only knowledge that is useful but also knowledge that is used."
journals.lww.com/academicmedi...
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Study on CBME, PIF & transformation learning (TL) in Med Educ. Findings show lots of TL experiences impacting PIF for residnts but no clear relationship to CBME. Some concern that CBME may impede TL. #MedEd @asmeofficial.bsky.social
asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Transformational learning and professional identity formation in postgraduate competency‐based medical education
Introduction
Residency programmes are in transition to a framework for competency-based medical education (CBME). The intersection of CBME with transformational learning (TL) experiences and profess.....
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November 17, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Study on CBME, PIF & transformation learning (TL) in Med Educ. Findings show lots of TL experiences impacting PIF for residnts but no clear relationship to CBME. Some concern that CBME may impede TL. #MedEd @asmeofficial.bsky.social
asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
CMEJ Scoping review on ‘fit’ & selection
I feel we should be moving away from this. Ample evidence that an over-emphasis on ‘fitting in’ negatively impacts belonging for many (e.g., UrIM, stereotyped groups).
What do others think/do?
#meded
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I feel we should be moving away from this. Ample evidence that an over-emphasis on ‘fitting in’ negatively impacts belonging for many (e.g., UrIM, stereotyped groups).
What do others think/do?
#meded
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A scoping review of Fit in medical education: a guaranteed success, or a threat to inclusivity?
| Canadian Medical Education Journal
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November 17, 2024 at 12:49 AM
CMEJ Scoping review on ‘fit’ & selection
I feel we should be moving away from this. Ample evidence that an over-emphasis on ‘fitting in’ negatively impacts belonging for many (e.g., UrIM, stereotyped groups).
What do others think/do?
#meded
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cm...
I feel we should be moving away from this. Ample evidence that an over-emphasis on ‘fitting in’ negatively impacts belonging for many (e.g., UrIM, stereotyped groups).
What do others think/do?
#meded
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cm...
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For my early-to-mid career URM pediatric faculty, please consider applying to the Association of Pediatric Program Directors FUEL (Fostering UIM Education Leadership) Faculty Mentoring Program by Nov 18! Learn more at appd.org/resources-prog…#MedSkyk#PedSkyk#appdfuelel
November 16, 2024 at 9:45 PM
For my early-to-mid career URM pediatric faculty, please consider applying to the Association of Pediatric Program Directors FUEL (Fostering UIM Education Leadership) Faculty Mentoring Program by Nov 18! Learn more at appd.org/resources-prog…#MedSkyk#PedSkyk#appdfuelel
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Hey #MedSky and #MedEd friends. Give me a follow! MD PhD psychiatrist, Department Chair, and scientist who tries not to take himself too seriously. Sometimes I say interesting and deep stuff!
a cartoon of a robot saying `` follow me '' while standing in front of a mountain .
ALT: a cartoon of a robot saying `` follow me '' while standing in front of a mountain .
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November 15, 2024 at 12:15 PM