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Robert Sternszus

@rsternszus.bsky.social
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Pediatrician & Clinician Educator at McGill University. Scholarship and teaching focuses on professional identity formation, authenticity, agency & belonging. Father of 2. Former NICU parent. Go Habs Go!

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Joanne Hamilton EdD @johamiltonedd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Faculty tend to teach how they were taught. Concepts like productive struggle are complex & (sometimes) uncomfortable for faculty. Where are safe spaces for faculty to practice these skills, so they can integrate into clinical teaching confidently? A call for engagement with FacDev? #ICRE2025
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
@maxfg98.bsky.social suggests ‘That was good [end]’ is one of the worst feedback you can receive. It suggests that the supervisor knows it wasn’t ‘great’ but doesn’t really believe that you can do better @icreconf.bsky.social #ICRE2025
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Joanne Hamilton EdD @johamiltonedd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
How can we design curriculum to Capitalize on appropriate productive struggle? Especially in the high risk high stress environment our learners inhabit? #ICRE2025.
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Chris Merritt @chris-merritt.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Adaptive expertise involves *embracing* the unknown, learning to thrive in ambiguity. Love the term epistemic humility. #meded @icreconf.bsky.social
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Psychological safety is not synonymous with feeling comfortable. Important insights about psychological safety and productive struggle @icreconf.bsky.social #ICRE2025
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
@icreconf.bsky.social Great start to the day with a discussion of productive struggle and adaptive expertise. Proud of @maxfg98.bsky.social representing the McGill IHSE in this important discussion
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
What are people worried about in our learning environments? Amazing session led by Adelle Atkinson and Kelly Caverzagie on leading in chaos #ICRE2025 #MedEd
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Brandon Tang @drbrandontang.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
#FirstPost I’m Brandon, an Internal Medicine physician and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in Canada. I am passionate about how “big data” from electronic health systems can be used to improve feedback, learning, and assessment in #MedEd harvardmacy.org/blog/data-dr...
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Harvard Macy Institute - Blog - Shaping the Future of Medical Education through Data-Driven Learning
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year: ‘polarization’ www.pbs.org/newshour/art... via @pbsnews.bsky.social
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Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year: ‘polarization’
“Polarization means division, but it’s a very specific kind of division,” said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press ahead of Monday'...
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Hugely important topic That said, I struggle with the framing that we need to care about physician well-being because well physicians provide better care. While this is true, can we not just care about physician well-being because physicians are people and we care about people? #humanism #MedEd
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Learning about trust, difficult conversations, belonging and authenticity with Jerry Maniate. Love this message We cannot conflate uncomfortable and unsafe #MedEd
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This sums it all up 👇
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 24/11/2024
#WeAreInThisTogether
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Mike @empiricgame.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hey #pedsky, #meded people. Great content coming out in the next two months on the Academic Pediatrics Podcast. Actionable tipss for mitigating impact racism in the clinical setting on your patients, what to do about microaggressions and two short essays.
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In the Moment - My Father's Daughter and Doctor - Christy Lucas 	
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Patent experiences of racial inequities in ambulatory pediatrics and what to do about it. 	
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In the Moment: To Truly Feel - Yasmeen Makarem 	
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Nuts and Bolts- Be An Active Bystander 	
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 2 #Booksky #20books #Bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
As clinician educators, we often talk about helping students reflect on the hard stuff. This is important. And so is reflecting on the joys of becoming a physician. This study in PME explores this through medical student portfolios. pmejournal.org/articles/10....
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Struggles and Joys: A Mixed Methods Study of the Artefacts and Reflections in Medical Student Portfolios | Perspectives on Medical Education
Perspectives on Medical Education’s mission is to support and enrich collaborative scholarship between education researchers and clinical educators, and to advance new knowledge regarding clinic...
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This 👇
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I often wonder about the unintended consequences of the need to ‘document everything’ in CBME. This interesting paper by an amazing team explores: What can/can’t be easily documented? What should be documented? And What shouldn’t be documented? journals.lww.com/academicmedi...
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“Praise in Public; Criticize in Private”: Unwritable... : Academic Medicine
ntly examined how well the undocumented information lends itself to being written as comments. Because missing information threatens the validity of assessment processes, this study examined the perfo...
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Javeed Sukhera MD PhD @javeedsukhera.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Excited to see our book is OUT. Please check out this incredible collection. The AMA commissioned this new publication as part of an effort to reimagine how we can advance equity and justice in #MedEd. www.us.elsevierhealth.com/reimagining-...
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Reimagining Medical Education: The Future of Hea - 9780443286711
Inequities in health care and medical education have a long and complex history involving racism, sexism, ableism, exclusivity, and other forms of social injustice. Reimagining Medical Education: The ...
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Ben Kinnear @midwestmedpeds.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Amazing and thought-provoking article from @javeedsukhera.bsky.social et al. #MedEd "Medical education research should aspire to generate not only knowledge that is useful but also knowledge that is used." journals.lww.com/academicmedi...
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What Are We Made For? Mobilizing Medical Education Research ... : Academic Medicine
educe costs, promote equity, and inform policy. However, the gap between research and practice requires attention and reflection. In this commentary, the authors reflect on ways that medical education...
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IAMSE @iamse.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Call for 2025 Educational Scholarship & Curriculum Innovation Grants! (IAMSE) encourages & supports scholarship in #medEd by funding multiple educational scholarship and curriculum innovation grants for up to $5,000 each. See iamse.org for details. Deadline Jan 15th
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Study on CBME, PIF & transformation learning (TL) in Med Educ. Findings show lots of TL experiences impacting PIF for residnts but no clear relationship to CBME. Some concern that CBME may impede TL. #MedEd @asmeofficial.bsky.social asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Transformational learning and professional identity formation in postgraduate competency‐based medical education
Introduction Residency programmes are in transition to a framework for competency-based medical education (CBME). The intersection of CBME with transformational learning (TL) experiences and profess.....
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
CMEJ Scoping review on ‘fit’ & selection I feel we should be moving away from this. Ample evidence that an over-emphasis on ‘fitting in’ negatively impacts belonging for many (e.g., UrIM, stereotyped groups). What do others think/do? #meded journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cm...
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A scoping review of Fit in medical education: a guaranteed success, or a threat to inclusivity? | Canadian Medical Education Journal
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Tye Winters, DO @tmswdo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
For my early-to-mid career URM pediatric faculty, please consider applying to the Association of Pediatric Program Directors FUEL (Fostering UIM Education Leadership) Faculty Mentoring Program by Nov 18! Learn more at appd.org/resources-prog… #MedSky #PedSky #appdfuel
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Javeed Sukhera MD PhD @javeedsukhera.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hey #MedSky and #MedEd friends. Give me a follow! MD PhD psychiatrist, Department Chair, and scientist who tries not to take himself too seriously. Sometimes I say interesting and deep stuff!
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This newly published study, led by Adam Sawatsky, brilliantly explores the challenging and often isolating experience of engaging in identity work in #meded using symbolic interactionism as a theoretic lens. It is a phenomenal read. Highly recommend! pmejournal.org/articles/10....
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Identity Work: A Qualitative Study of Residents’ Experiences Navigating Identity Struggles | Perspectives on Medical Education
Perspectives on Medical Education’s mission is to support and enrich collaborative scholarship between education researchers and clinical educators, and to advance new knowledge regarding clinic...
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Jaclyn Vargas @jaclynvargasmd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hello #medsky #pedsky #hmsky! I’m an Academic Medicine and Pediatrics Hospitalist who has many interests including EBM, creating safe learning environments, eating disorders, and medical education from the bedside to national conferences! I look forward to learning from you all!
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Having access to diverse and representative role models and mentors has huge implications for identity formation, retention, wellbeing and belonging. Nice to see this getting more and more attention in the literature
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
New to this platform after years on Twitter/X. I am a pediatrician & clinician educator who studies how medical education can create learning environments that support authentic professional identity formation, belonging and agency. Looking forward to connecting
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Robert Sternszus @rsternszus.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Nice to see some friendly and familiar faces on this platform. Happy to join the #MedEd Bluesky community. Hoping to see it keep growing
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