Mayo Clinic Educator's Central

In Practice: The 5-Minute Teaching Playbook (EP:46)
With Stacy Craft, M.Ed

What can we realistically teach in five minutes?

In environments where time is limited and demands are constant, educating rarely happens in structured sessions. It happens in motion. And yet, these brief moments hold more potential than w...

From Literacy to Savviness: Rethinking How We Learn with AI (EP:45)
With Chris Minter, PHD

How do we stay thoughtful, skilled, and grounded as AI accelerates faster than our instincts can adapt?
In this episode, we explore the shift from simply knowing about AI to becoming truly savvy in how we use it. Chris Minter invites us to consider how contextual inputs, desired outputs, a...

Co-Creating Care: Lessons from the Stage (EP:44)
With Marco Antonio de Carvalho Filho, MD, PHD

If medical education is meant to prepare people for the emotional realities of patient care, what might change if we taught students not only to do the work, but to fully inhabit the person they are becoming while doing it? Join host Stacy Craft, and guest Professor Dr. Carvalho Filho, as ...

Aligning Person and Profession: The Work of Identity Formation in Medical Education—and Beyond (EP:43) With Joke Fleer

What if the future of medicine depends not just on what learners know—but on who they are becoming? In this thought-provoking episode we sit down with psychologist and medical education expert Joke F...

EDU Central REDUX –Building Memory with Science and Senses – Put on Your Thinking Cap (EP:42)
With  Stella Collins, MSc.

This month, we are revisiting a classic episode from 2021. Creating effective learning can be complicated – from our biology to our environment, there are a lot of elements that influence outcomes. And how can we get our learners curious anyway, especially in our increasingly d...

EDU Central REDUX – Revisiting Problem Based Learning and Team Based Learning – Your New Educational Super Strategy (EP:41)
With Diana Dolmans, PhD.

This month, we are revisiting a classic episode from 2020.  With the continued evolution of emerging technology and the power that AI to help invigorate frameworks like problem based learning, we need to be ready to leverage insights from educational scien...

Revolutionizing Medical Education Through Pedagogy of Connection (EP:40)
With Marco Antonio de Carvalho Filho, MD, PHD

How can we create environments and opportunities where connections between educators, students, and meaning not only exists but thrives? Join host Stacy Craft, and guest Professor Dr. Carvalho Filho, as we uncover the power of authentic connections in revolutionizin...

Tweetorials: Bridging Connections in Medical Education with Nano Learning (EP.39) 
With Catherine S.W. Albin, MD

How can we distill complex medical concepts into bite-sized, engaging content? What role does social media play in revolutionizing education? Can nano learning connect learners and foster a community of shared knowledge? Join host Stacy Craft and guest Dr. Catherine ...

EDU Central REDUX – Revisiting Learning Styles – Unpacking the Myth 2020 (EP:38)
With Tesia Marshik, PhD.

To close out the year, we are revisiting a classic episode from 2020- because it feels important and timely.  With the rise of personalized learning and the power that AI to help us meet the dream of personalized learning, we...

Co-Occurrence #13 – Revisiting and Reexamining a Year of Insights and Innovations: A Retrospective (EP.36) 
With Multiple Guests

In this special episode, host Stacy Craft, revisits and reexamines the enduring themes from the limited series “Co-Occurrence” which focuses on the intersection between education., artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies. ...

Co-Occurrence #12 – Empathy and Algorithms: AI’s Role in Social-Emotional Learning (EP.35)
With Priten Shah, M.Ed.

Have you ever wondered how artificial intelligence is impacting your social and emotional skills? In this episode, we delve into the fascinating intersection of AI and social-emotional learning. Join host Stacy Craft  and guest Priten Shah, an author an...

Co-Occurrence #11 – From Neurons to Networks: Understanding the Biology of Learning and Artificial Intelligence Parallels (EP.34)
With Barbara Oakley, Ph.D 

Our brains are the center of learning acquisition, so understanding the biological neuroscientific processes behind learning is essential to all educators and learners. These processes are mirrored in artificial intel...

Co-Occurrence #10 – Look Both Ways: Curbing Runaway Design and Healing Education’s Tomorrow (EP.33)
With Carissa Carter, M.S. and Scott Doorley, M.A. 

As educators we create, are subjected to, and engage with other people’s creations and intentions. We often assume that our values and intentions are going to automatically manifest in the way that we work with ...

Co-Occurrence #9 – Enhancing the Human Touch: Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare Education, Adaptability, and Beyond (EP.32)
With Raquel Correia, MD, MsED, MBA

Create. Think. Feel. Grow. Connect. Humanize. Analyze. Engage.  What are the words we can use to encapsulate the crucial “must haves” for navigating and thriving in this new AI world? What do we need t...

Co-Occurrence #8 – Emotion is the Highlighter of Learning: Using Reflection and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Create Meaningful Learning Experiences (EP.31)
With Leticia Britos Cavagnaro Ph.D.

How can we use artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance learning and reflection? What are the benefits and challenges of using “AI bots”, generative AI, and other emerging t...

Co-Occurrence #7 – Bridging the Distance in Generative AI and Education: From Productivity to Learning to Ethics and Creativity (EP.30)
With Stephanie Moore, Ph.D.

How can we as learners, educators, and instructional designers use AI tools in imaginative and innovative ways to enhance productivity, compliment creativity, support must have like learner diversity and accessibili...

Co-Occurrence #6 – The Zen of Never Being Up to Speed: Embracing and Adapting to AI and Emerging Tech  (EP.29)
With Scott Doorley, MA., Stanford d.school

How do we navigate the relentless newn...

Co-Occurrence #5 – AI is Here to Stay: Hype, Humanity, and Health Professions Education (EP.28)
With Eric Gantwerker, MD, MMSc (MedEd), FACS, AFAMEE 

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not only transforming the field of medicine, but also the way we learn and teach it. In fact, AI is evolving the world of all education professionals, both inside and outside of health profess...

Co-Occurrence #4 – The Future is Now: How VR and AR are Revolutionizing Medical and Health Sciences Education (EP.27)
With Ryan Kingsley, MPAS, P.A.-C.

Virtual reality and Augmented Reality are among some of the most exciting technologies that are revolutionizing the innovation possibilities within our learning landscape today. These cutting edge technologies, VR and AR, along...