The Backstory Podcast

Does love have a place in health professions education? In this episode of The Backstory Podcast , Justin, Hannah, and Ben explore “A Thick Description of Love’s Contours for Health Professions Education,” a thought-provoking paper by Katie Lee Bunting and colleagues. Drawing from philosophy, critical pedagogy, and feminist scholarship, the paper challenges us to consider love not as sentimentalit...

What happens when supervisors intentionally allow trainees to fail? And when does that kind of failure become a powerful learning experience, versus something harmful? In this debut episode of The Backstory Podcast , Drs. Ben Kinnear, Hannah Kakara Anderson, and Justin Bullock explore the Medical Education paper “Trainees’ perceptions of being allowed to fail in clinical training: A sense-making m...

In this introductory episode of The Backstory Podcast , we share the inspiration behind the show and what you can expect from future episodes. From unpacking impactful research to sitting down with authors, we’ll explore the real stories behind the scholarship—the pivots, challenges, and moments that don’t make it into the final manuscript. Because in health professions education, there’s always m...

Meet The Backstory Podcast —where the stories behind the scholarship finally get told. Every publication has a journey: the moments of doubt, the unexpected pivots, the conversations that changed everything, and the questions that refused to let go. Yet in the final manuscript or conference presentation, those human elements are often left out. In this trailer episode, we introduce the vision behi...