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KIPRIME Podcast

by Alina Jenkins · English · Tech & Science

The Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research in Medical Education is a major international award and was created to recognise and stimulate high-quality research in the field and to honour scientists who have made a significant contribution to medical and healthcare education. In this podcast serie

New episodes: Every two weeks
Typical length: 18 min
Latest: 4 Mar 2026
Language: English

Latest episode

4 Mar 2026 · 18 min

Finding Your Voice and Your Why: Dr Patricia Tempski on Purpose, People, and Medical Education

Dr Patricia Tempski is Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo and a senior researcher at the Centre for the Development of Medical Education. With more than twenty years of experience in medical education, Patricia’s work spans quality of life, faculty development, and accreditation. In this episode of the KIPRIME podcast, Patricia reflects on her professional journey and how the KIPRIME experience has helped her step back and consider where she wants to focus her energy next. She...

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S4 · E13 · 9 Feb 2026 · 16 min
Do You See What I See? Dr Renée Stalmeijer on Learning, Collaboration, and Healthcare Teams
Dr Renée Stalmeijer is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Development and Research and the School of Health Professions Education at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University in the Netherlands. An educational scientist by training, Renée has been active in health professions education since 2005, combining the roles of researcher, educational quality manager, and teacher of research methodology. As of September 2025, she is the Programme Dir...
S4 · E12 · 28 Jan 2026 · 17 min
Supporting How Students Learn: Professor Roghayeh Gandomkar on Regulation, Evaluation, and Quality Assurance
Roghayeh Gandomkar is a medical doctor by training, an Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Medical Education at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). She earned her Master’s degree in Medical Education in 2010 and her PhD in the same field in 2016, both from TUMS. Since 2009, she has built her career in medical education. She served as Head of the Evaluation Unit at TUMS for 15 years, contributing significantly to the development of evaluation and quality assurance s...
S4 · E11 · 21 Jan 2026 · 20 min
Becoming a Doctor: Dr Yu-Che Chang on Professional Identity and Culture
Dr Yu-Che Chang is Deputy Director of Taiwan’s Chang Gung Medical Education Research Centre, where his work focuses on how doctors develop a sense of professional identity, particularly in high-pressure environments such as emergency medicine. His research explores how clinicians understand their roles, how culture and context shape professionalism, and how medical students and doctors navigate workplace expectations at different stages of their careers. In this episode of the KIPRIME Podcast...
S4 · E10 · 12 Jan 2026 · 15 min
Digging Where You Stand: Matilda Liljedahl on Learning in the Clinical Workplace
Matilda Liljedahl is an Associate Professor of Health Professions Education at Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and a Clinical Research Fellow and Resident in Clinical Oncology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. She graduated as a medical doctor in 2014 and earned a PhD in Medical Education from Karolinska Institutet in 2016. Matilda's main research interest is workplace learning, and she now leads a research group focusing on workplace learning among medical doc...
S4 · E9 · 4 Jan 2026 · 18 min
What Shapes a Doctor? Professor Hiroshi Nishigori on Culture and Professionalism
Professor Hiroshi Nishigori is Professor of Medical Education at Nagoya University’s Graduate School of Medicine and the current President of the Japan Society for Medical Education. He earned his Master’s in Medical Education from the University of Dundee, and later completed his PhD in Health Professions Education at Maastricht University. Originally trained as an internist, he became deeply interested in how people learn and grow during his early years of medical practice - not only as cl...
S4 · E8 · 30 Dec 2025 · 19 min
Adapting Education Across Cultures: Dr Halah Ibrahim on Professionalism, Context and Global Medical Training
Dr Halah Ibrahim is the Vice President for International Outreach at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). She is a graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and completed an internal medicine residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. She also holds a Master’s in Health Professions Education from Johns Hopkins University. Halah has lived and worked in the Middle East for the past 17 years, where she has led efforts to adapt ...
S4 · E7 · 23 Dec 2025 · 21 min
Inside the Simulation: Rune Dall Jensen on Building Skills and Confidence in Surgery
Rune Dall Jensen is Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and Head of Simulation at MidtSim, Centre for Continuing Professional Development in Central Denmark Region. His academic work explores how motor skills interact with intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies, with a particular focus on simulation-based surgical education. Rune emphasises a holistic approach to surgical performance, aiming to support skill development in surgical residents and...
S4 · E6 · 14 Dec 2025 · 12 min
Why Practice Deviates: Dr Andrea Gingerich on Counter-Normative Behaviour in Medical Education
Dr Andrea Gingerich is an Associate Professor in the Division of Medical Sciences with the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, where she teaches for the University of British Columbia’s Northern Medical Program. She has a PhD in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University, a Master of Medical Education degree from the University of Dundee and before all of that, she practised as a naturopathic doctor in rural Ontario. In this e...
S4 · E5 · 6 Dec 2025 · 25 min
Innovation and Wellbeing in Medical Education - an interview with Dr Mildred Lopez
Dr Mildred López is Head of the Division of Education & Innovation at the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), the country’s largest public healthcare institution, where she leads national faculty development, curriculum transformation, and educational research initiatives impacting thousands of healthcare professionals across Mexico. Previously Associate Dean at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mildred continues her academic engagement as a...
S4 · E4 · 29 Nov 2025 · 16 min
Virtual Patients and Deeper Learning: Samuel Edelbring on Education for Clinical Reasoning
Samuel Edelbring is a full professor of higher education at Mälardalen University in Sweden. He holds a degree in education, a PhD in medical education from Karolinska Institutet, and a docent title (Associate professor) in medical education from Linköping University. Since 2001, he has been engaged in development and research in health professions education. His fascination with digital possibilities led him to pursue research on pedagogical aspects of computerised virtual patients. In...
S4 · E3 · 24 Nov 2025 · 15 min
Seeing Differently: Dr Zareen Zaidi on Using Critical Lenses in Medical Education Research
Dr Zareen Zaidi, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine at George Washington School of Medicine. She practices general internal medicine at the academic faculty practice in DC. Zareen completed the FAIMER fellowship from Philadelphia and has a PhD in Medical Education from Maastricht University School of Health Professions Education. At GW, she is the Co-Director of the Academy of Education Scholars and the Associate Director for Education Research and Scholarship. She has served as ...
S4 · E2 · 14 Nov 2025 · 19 min
Challenging Ableism: Neera Jain on Disability, Inclusion, and Reimagining Medical Education
Neera Jain is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education, School of Medicine, at Waipapa Taumata Rau – The University of Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand. She completed her PhD in Education at the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland in 2021. She completed a Master’s of Science in Rehabilitation Counselling in 2004 at Boston University Before her research career, Neera worked as a vocational counsellor (in the US), managed a disabled...
S4 · E1 · 9 Nov 2025 · 18 min
Rethinking Feedback: Connecting Learners and Educators Through Simulation - An Interview with Dr Julián Varas Cohen
We’re back with a new season of the KIPRIME Podcast, exploring the ideas shaping the future of medical education. In this first episode, host Alina Jenkins speaks with Dr Julián Varas Cohen, a surgeon and Associate Professor at the Catholic de Chile in Santiago, Chile. He leads simulation-based medical education research, using remote asynchronous feedback to accelerate healthcare skill acquisition. He has developed and validated various training methodologies, reaching more than 40,000 train...
S3 · E16 · 19 May 2024 · 19 min
The importance of feedback and reflection in medical education – an interview with Professor Diantha Soemantri
Diantha Soemantri is a Professor and Vice Director of medical education at the Indonesian Medical Education and Research Institute (IMERI), Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia, where she graduated as a medical doctor in 2005. She acquired the Master of Medical Education title from the University of Dundee in 2007 and PhD in the same field from the University of Melbourne in 2013. She is now the head of the Master in Medical Education Program at Universitas Indonesia and is a...
S3 · E15 · 27 Apr 2024 · 15 min
Transforming feedback and promoting inclusion in education - an interview with Dr Joanna Tai
Dr Joanna Tai is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an active member of several professional associations, including the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professions Education, the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, and the European Association for Research on Learning and Inst...
S3 · E14 · 14 Apr 2024 · 23 min
From learning environments to learning in environments – an interview with Per J. Palmgren
Per J. Palmgren is an associate professor in medical education and assistant senior lecturer at the Department of Learning, Informatics, Management, and Ethics (LIME) at KI. He has been the director of doctoral studies at LIME since 2022. Per works predominantly with higher education and pedagogy for doctoral and faculty development courses, and he also works partly as a pedagogical advisor and senior lecturer in higher education at the Scandinavian College of Naprapathic Manual Medicine. Pe...
S3 · E13 · 1 Apr 2024 · 16 min
The importance of standardised patients units to maintain patient safety - an interview with Professor Mandana Shirazi
Mandana Shirazi is a Professor of Medical Sciences at Tehran University (TUMS) and an Affiliated Professor at Karolinska Institute. She started her medical career with a BSc and MSc in midwifery from TUMS and subsequently began working as a faculty member of Midwifery at TUMS. After five years, she started working at the Educational Development Center (EDC) and was later promoted to the position of Executive Manager of the Continuous Medical Education Office. Mandana then came to KI to study...
S3 · E12 · 17 Mar 2024 · 26 min
From clinical reasoning to faculty development and sociocultural factors in medical education – an interview with Ardi Findyartini
Ardi Findyartini is a medical doctor and a Professor in Medical Education, from the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta. She is currently the Head of Medical Education Unit and the Chair of Medical Education Cluster of Indonesia Medical Education and Research Institute (IMERI) Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia. She is also the current chair of ASPIRE excellence in faculty development panel, an initiative of AMEE international organisation in medical education towards ex...
S3 · E11 · 3 Mar 2024 · 18 min
21 years of improving medical education – an interview with Söeren Huwendiek
Söeren Huwendiek graduated from medical school at Heidelberg University in Germany, where he worked for 10 years as a physician and as a medical educator. He gained a Master of Medical Education degree from Bern University and a PhD in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University. Since 2012, he has been the head of the Department of Assessment and Evaluation of the Institute of Medical Education (IML) in Switzerland. Recently, he was promoted to Associate Professor for Medical Edu...
S3 · E10 · 18 Feb 2024 · 19 min
Why research is the critical component for providing practical solutions to real-world problems – an interview with Satid Thammasitboon
Satid Thammasitboon is Associate Professor in Pediatrics, division of Critical Care Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas where he serves in various academic positions promoting research and scholarship across the continuum of medical education. He’s also Director of Centre for Research Innovation and Scholarship in Health Professions Education. Satid grew up and went to medical school in southern Thailand and came to the USA for residency, fellowship, and an advanced degree...
S3 · E9 · 4 Feb 2024 · 24 min
Using arts and humanities to innovate pedagogy - an interview with Professor Gabrielle Finn
Gabrielle Finn is Associate Vice President for Teaching, Learning, and Students at the University of Manchester, where she was previously Professor of Medical Education and Vice Dean for Teaching, Learning and Students in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine, and Health. She has a track record in establishing undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. In an earlier role, Gabrielle was the founding Director of the Health Professions Education Unit (HPEU) and Chair of the Postgraduate Board at the...
19 Jan 2024 · 21 min
Breaking down assumptions in how we look at clinical reasoning – an interview with Dr Sandra Monteiro
Dr Sandra Monteiro is a scientist in the McMaster University, faculty of health sciences program for education, research, innovation, and theory (known as MERIT). She has a faculty appointment in the faculty of health sciences, Department of Medicine, Division of Education and Innovation and a second appointment to the Centre for Simulation Based Learning as the Director of Simulation Scholarship. The foundation of her training is in cognitive psychology, and she is known internationally for...
S3 · E7 · 4 Jan 2024 · 16 min
Understanding and improving clinical learning - approaching medical education research from problematic elements. An interview with Anders Sondén
Anders Sondén trained and is still active as a surgeon in Stockholm, yet for many years, he has devoted most of his time to medical education, being a clinical teacher, director of studies in undergraduate and postgraduate education, researcher, and educational leader. He is interested in the whole spectrum of medical education, with his prime focus in clinical sciences, especially workplace-based education, and he is dedicated to the understanding and improvement of uni and interprof...
S3 · E6 · 15 Dec 2023 · 26 min
Addressing power dynamics and hierarchy in clinical training environments - an interview with Veena Singaram
Veena Singaram is Associate Professor in HPE and has recently been appointed as the Head of the Inaugural Health Professions Education (HPE) Unit at the College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She began her academic journey as an anatomy lecturer and then transitioned into the field of medical education. This path eventually led her to complete a PhD in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University. In 2022 she received the Distinguished Educator Awar...
S3 · E5 · 30 Nov 2023 · 15 min
Studying patient-focused approaches to physician performance assessment – an interview with Dr Dan Schumacher
Dr Dan Schumacher is a tenured professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, where he also serves as co-director of the CCHMC Education Research Unit and Education Research Scholars Program. His career has been dedicated to residency administration and medical education research, and he holds a PhD from the Maastricht University School of Health Professions Education. His research focuses on competency-based assessment, including milestones,...
S3 · E4 · 15 Nov 2023 · 17 min
The Impact of Validity Research on Innovative Assessments - An Interview with Yoon Soo Park
Yoon Soo Park is an Educational Data Scientist and currently serves as Department Head and Professor in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He trained at Columbia University, where he earned an MS in Applied Statistics and PhD in Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics. He began his career in the testing and assessment industry, working as an educational and operational statistician. In this episode of the KIPRIME podcast, Yoon Soo ta...
S3 · E3 · 4 Nov 2023 · 15 min
The Impacts of Globalisation on Medical Education – An Interview with Professor Ahmed Rashid
Ahmed Rashid is Professor of Medical Education at University College London, where he is Vice Dean for the UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences, and he leads the UCL Centre for International Medical Education Collaborations (CIMEC). Ahmed is also involved as a chief examiner for the General Medical Council PLAB exam that international doctors must sit to practice in the UK. On top of all that, he’s a part-time NHS doctor at a busy surgery in St Albans, Hertfordshire. His research in...
S3 · E2 · 18 Oct 2023 · 22 min
How to support training and practice for resilient teaming in healthcare – an interview with Dr Sayra Christancho
Dr. Sayra Cristancho is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery and a Scientist at the Centre for Education Research & Innovation (CERI) at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada. She received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia. Sayra’s research program investigates how action teams navigate and respond to disruptive events. Her research program aims to show how best to support training and practice for resilient teaming in h...
S3 · E1 · 12 Oct 2023 · 21 min
Spanning the Lifespan of the Health Professional - An Interview with 2022 KIPRIME Winner Professor Kevin Eva
Professor Kevin Eva is Associate Director and Senior Scientist in the Centre for Health Education Scholarship and Professor and Director of Educational Research and Scholarship in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Medical Education. Kevin’s research is diverse. It has impacted medical school admissions by introducing multiple mini-interviews as a rigorous process to select trainees based on their interpersonal ski...

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Publisher: Alina Jenkins
Language: English
Category: Tech & Science
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Typical length: 18 min
Latest episode: 4 Mar 2026
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