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Today we explore how professionals champion learning within their teams, organisations, and wider systems — influencing culture, shaping priorities, and ensuring education is valued as essential work. Effective advocacy blends credibility, communication, and a clear sense of educational purpose.

Today we explore how clinicians and educators can examine their own values, assumptions, and behaviours, recognising how these shape teaching, role‑modelling, and patient care. Developing reflective insight into who we are — and how we show up — strengthens authenticity, integrity, and educational impact.

Professional identity formation is shaped not only by experience but by the pedagogical theories that frame how learners grow, reflect, and belong. Today we examine how social learning, constructivism, narrative pedagogy, and communities of practice provide structured ways to understand — and intentionally support — the development of professional identity in healthcare.

Professional identity formation is the ongoing process of “filling in the blank name badge” as clinicians and healthcare professionals define who they are, what they value, and how they practise. Today we explore how identity is shaped by training, culture, hidden curricula, and the expectations placed upon us as emerging professionals.

Today we explore how healthcare professionals develop a dual identity that blends clinical expertise with educational practice. This evolving sense of self shapes how we teach, lead, and role‑model, helping us move beyond “doing teaching” toward being an educator within our clinical world.

Welcome to the ARU Medical and Healthcare Education Podcast. Designed by James Catton, Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University and Module Leader for the PGCert in Medical and Healthcare Education, this podcast aims to support ARU students throughout their learning journey.

Each episode expands on the themes, concepts, and discussions explored in the module, providing an opportunity to revisit key topics, deepen understanding, and reinforce learning at a time and place that suits you. While the episodes are AI generated, they are created directly from course materials and lecture content to complement your studies.

Whether you're revising, preparing for class, or simply curious to explore an idea further, we hope these conversations help bring medical and healthcare education to life.

Listen, learn, reflect, and grow with us.