Robert Sternszus
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Robert Sternszus
@rsternszus.bsky.social
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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
@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.
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Adaptive expertise involves *embracing* the unknown, learning to thrive in ambiguity.

Love the term epistemic humility.

#meded
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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
What are people worried about in our learning environments?
Amazing session led by Adelle Atkinson and Kelly Caverzagie on leading in chaos
#ICRE2025 #MedEd
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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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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
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
Jerry Maniate proposing that enhancing the care experience of the patient and the experience of the care team are essential to the future of healthcare

This is really about making humanism a foundational component of the culture of medicine & medical education
Learning about trust, difficult conversations, belonging and authenticity with Jerry Maniate. Love this message
We cannot conflate uncomfortable and unsafe
#MedEd
This sums it all up 👇
I love this.
Here’s a MedEd starter pack to get you started
Welcome!

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Hey #pedsky, #meded people. Great content coming out in the next two months on the Academic Pediatrics Podcast.

Actionable tipss for mitigating impact racism in the clinical setting on your patients, what to do about microaggressions and two short essays.
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
This supports the principle that guiding reflection on the range of experiences and associated emotions in #MedEd is an important component of supporting professional identity formation (PIF). This is also highlighted in this paper on PIF for medical educators

www.frontiersin.org/journals/med...
Frontiers | Being, becoming, and belonging: reconceptualizing professional identity formation in medicine
Over the last decade, there has been a drive to emphasize professional identity formation in medical education. This shift has had important and positive imp...
www.frontiersin.org
Find a ‘writing buddy’ that you can schedule writing meetings with. You both work on your own stuff but at the same time.
It’s kind of like parallel play (sorry… paediatrician after all). The external accountability is really helpful.
It can even be on a zoom link
Really appreciate the thread. Thanks for sharing.
Definitely adding this to my reading list