Academic Pediatrics Podcast

Members of the APA's Top Articles in Medical Education Committee discuss top medical education articles from 2025. Keep up with the dialog in the medical education literature and how it impacts teaching and training.  In this episode Gayatri Madduri hosts committee members Su-Ting Li and John Frohna to discuss articles on wellness and belonging.  Parris, R. S., Dong, Z., Clark, A., Hayes, M. M., Sullivan, A. M., Tibbles, C., & Palamara, K. (2025). Effect of coaching on trainee burnout, professional fulfillment, and errors: a randomized controlled trial. Academic Medicine, 100(8), 940-949. Azim, A., Schnure, N., DiVeronica, M., Rusek, M., Bird, A., & Smeraglio, A. (2025). Impact of a Multi-site Peer-led, Storytelling-based Workshop to Teach Resident Physicians About Healing After Medical Errors: Azim et al. Journal of general internal medicine, 40(14), 3335-3339. Mason, H. R., Webber, A., Wyatt, T. R., Chakraverty, D., Russell, R. G., Havemann, C., ... & Nguyen, M. (2025). Understanding the Medical Education Experiences of Low-Income Students Through a Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Lens: An Exploratory Qualitative Study: Mason et al. Journal of general internal medicine, 40(6), 1367-1377.  

Dr. Oriaku Kas-Osoka and Dr. Audrea Burns discuss their article in press at Academic Pediatrics on under represented in medicine pediatric residents' perspectives on how belonging impacts professional identity formation.  Read the full article here:  https://www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S1876-2859(26)00106-3/fulltext The podcast episode on microaggressions mentioned in the segment is available here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nuts-and-bolts-be-an-active-bystander/id1316140783?i=1000678766975

Dr. Torwekar reads her In the Moment piece "Nothing you can say." Read it online here:  https://www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S1876-2859(26)00174-9/abstract

Members of the APA's Top Articles in Medical Education Committee discuss top medical education articles from 2025. Keep up with the dialog in the medical education literature and how it impacts teaching and training.  In this episode Gayatri Madduri hosts committee member Berry Seelbach to discuss two articles on competency based medical education for pediatric residents:  Graduating Residents Readiness for Unsupervised Practice: 10.1542/peds.2024-070307 Development and Validation of a Model to Predict Milestone Levels Based on Entrustable Professional Activity Entrustment-Supervision Levels: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000006165  

Dr. Keefe reads her In the Moment piece The Glance Between Them.  Read the article here:  https://www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S1876-2859(26)00172-5/abstract

Members of the APA's Top Articles in Medical Education Committee discuss top medical education articles from 2025. Keep up with the dialog in the medical education literature and how it impacts teaching and training.  In this episode Gayatri Madduri hosts committee member Morgan Congdon to discuss two articles on competency based medical education for pediatric fellows:  Many Pediatric Subspecialty Fellows Are Not Ready to Graduate From Fellowship in 2 Years 10.1542/peds.2024-068307 Validity Evidence for Level of Supervision Scales With Pediatric Subspecialty-Specific Entrustable Professional Activities 10.1016/j.acap.2025.103116

Dr. Prasad reads here piece from the In the Moment section at Academic Pediatrics: From Heroin to Fentanyl: A Detroit Pediatrician’s Long View on Youth Substance Use. Written piece is available at the journal here: https://www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S1876-2859(26)00112-9/fulltext

Nuts and Bolts editor Dr. Jerri Rose interviews Dr. Suzanne Friedman on how educators can establish good psychological safety for medical student and resident learners. This piece is a companion to the two page primer available online at Academic Pediatrics:  https://www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S1876-2859(25)00422-X/ Send this episode out to your colleagues and senior residents and let us know [email protected] what other nuts and bolts episodes you would like covered on the podcast. 

The authors read their recent piece in Academic Pediatrics. The written version is available at the journal webpage here: https://www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S1876-2859(26)00103-8/fulltext

Dr. Do reads his piece in available in press at Academic Pediatrics: Can This Family Manage? Learning to Ask Different Questions 10.1016/j.acap.2026.103322