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Key Literature in Medical Education (KeyLIME) is a weekly podcast produced by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

We bring you the main points of a medical education article in under half a hour! Articles that are important, innovative, or will impact your educational practice are discussed. Earn MOC credits under Section 2 for each podcast.  

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Feb 27, 2018

Workplace Based Assessment is a hot topic in Med Ed and pretty essential to CBME and being used in many clinical learning settings, but is our understanding of it is limited, evident is varied and conflicting.

Authors: Barrett A, Galvin R, Scherpbier AJ, Teunissen PW, O'Shaughnessy A, Horgan M.

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Feb 20, 2018

Jon's paper seeks to inform scholars about common reasons for internal editor review rejections, which will hopefully stop letters that start like this 'Dear So and So, Thank you for your submission. Our journal receives many more submissions than it can publish. Unfortunately, we are unable to publish...


Feb 13, 2018

The assessment literature has seen strong a migration towards emphasizing direct observation and the use of expert raters in the last decade.  Rater cognition (i.e. how an individual constructs an assessment of performance) has been a critical element in ensuring the validity of direct...


Feb 6, 2018

What is the most effective way to prepare senior medical students for the transition to residency? 

Do the new intensive 'Surgical Boot Camps' for junior residency work? This study attempted to fill some of the gaps in the understanding of the effects of such courses on learning and performance in...