KeyLIME+

KeyLIME+ is the medical education podcast of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Adam Szulewski hosts it. In his introductions he describes himself as an emergency physician from Kingston and an associate professor at Queen's University, and he names one interest above the rest: understanding how doctors think. That interest shapes the interviews more than any format device does. Episodes are typically billed as either a key lesson or a key innovation in medical education, and the recent run covers a lot of ground. In 'Mentorship Matters: Turning Potential into Performance in Medical Education', a guest lays out a cycle of mentor, sponsor, then mentor again: guidance toward a promotion, advocacy for it, then help putting the application together and preparing the talk. Szulewski then asks, more than once, why people who are mentored burn out less. The reply is quotable: 'we don't burn out because of what we do, we burn out because we forget why we do it.' The sports episode, 'From the Sidelines to the Bedside: What Medical Education Can Learn from Coaching and Feedback in Sports', has more than one guest. There the host picks up a halftime example, a soccer coach deciding whether to bench a player, and asks whether things change when the person giving feedback also controls playing time. In 'AI and Emerging Skill Gaps: Deskilling, Never‑Skilling, Mis‑Skilling—and What Educators Can Do About It All', a guest describes a review article that set out first to define artificial intelligence. The guest argues that relying on a judgment a human cannot trace amounts to a leap of faith, and so to a moment of uncertainty. Simulation comes at a different angle in 'From What You Say to How You Say It: Unlocking the Human Element of Simulation-Based Education'. A guest recalls active bystander training on responding to racism in the workplace, run with final-year GPs, and now notices the low-key humour, small talk and gesture at work from the moment a student walks in. Careers get their own thread. 'Specialty Café: Brewing Careers, One Conversation at a Time' was recorded at the podcast booth of the International Conference on Residency Education in Quebec City, with Cameron Wong and Christina Toma as guests. They talk about an aim to give every Royal College specialty and fellowship a voice, and one of them traces a pathology elective back to interviewing a neuropathologist. A French-language episode, 'Café des spécialités : Infuser des idées de carrière, une conversation à la fois', stays with career exploration, and a guest there observes that passion for the work keeps resurfacing across specialties. What holds these together is the follow-up question. Szulewski tends to ask why instead of moving on, and the conversations draw on guests' own papers and research while keeping the anecdotes that make a point stick. The closing credits invite ideas for future episodes by email or voice clip. It suits anyone who teaches, trains or practises in medicine and wants the reasoning behind educational practice as well as the practice itself.