The Curiosity Habit
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The Curiosity Habit gets to know the researcher behind the research. In medical education, we often learn people's motivations and understandings of themselves in healthcare, but we don't know very much about the people who do research in this field.
The Curiosity Habit
8M ago
Between soccer, track and field, marching band, attending his dad’s seminars in the living room, and pouring gels in his mom’s lab, Jon Ilgen had a busy childhood full of friends and activities that allowed him to pursue his interests. One of these interests was science, and after a winter program of following a small town paediatrician, his journey to medicine and medical education began. Listen in as Jon and Sayra discuss the ever-changing nature of his interests and research program!  ..read more
The Curiosity Habit
8M ago
Happy Summer! In our newest episode of The Curiosity Habit, Sayra sits down with Terese Stenfors, lover of fresh baking and coffee smells, and Professor at the Centre for Teaching and Learning and the Karolinska Institutet. Listen in as Terese outlines her journey from wanting to be a baker, to getting a degree in computer and systems science, and eventually finding her way into educational development and medical education ..read more
The Curiosity Habit
1y ago
Community has always been a focus of Tim Dubé, whose interests were originally sparked at the local hockey rink in his Northern Ontario community. Listen in and Tim and Sayra discuss the power of community - in educating, learning, and growing ..read more
The Curiosity Habit
1y ago
How did the woman who grew up on a farm and had never known what research is end up conducting (and loving) medical education research? In this week's episode, Sayra has this conversation with Dorene Balmer, whose love of reading brought her out of her small childhood bubble, giving her the opportunity to see the connections between people, structures, and communities, and how these all intertwine in our living and learning ..read more
The Curiosity Habit
1y ago
Happy New Year listeners! We believe there is no better way to start the new year than with a new episode on a close friend - Wael Haddara! In this episode, Sayra and Wael discuss his literal and educational path to medicine and medical education. From Cairo to Kuwait to St. John’s (and more!), and from pharmacology to virology to medicine (and more!), listen in as Wael, the self-proclaimed bibliophile, community activist, and political analyst, has lots of stories to share ..read more
The Curiosity Habit
1y ago
On this episode of the Curiosity Habit, we welcome our first guest from and working in the Global South, Francisco Olmos-Vega! Sayra and Francisco’s conversation, in addition to talking about his journey from psychology to anesthesiology to the “dark side” of qualitative research , centres around identity - the growing, changing, accepting, and embracing of who you are.  ..read more
The Curiosity Habit
1y ago
Seeing the texture of colour of a slug was Laura’s first memory of being in and loving the outdoors, and was the start of a trajectory in balancing her life and her peace with time outside. Listen in as Sayra and Laura discuss Laura’s journey (and journeys!) of understanding herself, from Ecuador to Europe, and discovering the joy in the small things in life ..read more
The Curiosity Habit
1y ago
Over time, doing research on identity has helped Adam Sawatsky realize that if he wasn’t a medical education researcher, he would be a high school biology teacher or starting his own micro-brewing company. In this episode, Sayra and Adam sit down to talk about his love of reading (passed down from his parents and now onto his son)s, how the time spent learning about qualitative research helped him move forward in his career (and made him wish he could go back to learn more in the social sciences), and what everyone has wanted to know - the meaning behind the bow ties ..read more
The Curiosity Habit
1y ago
In this very special episode of the Curiosity Habit, the interviewer becomes the interviewee! Join Kevin Eva as he fulfills of the request made of many Curiosity Habit guests - interviewing Sayra herself. Sayra’s story is both fascinating and highly connected to her research; it describes how her childhood and teenage years in Colombia (and the social and political contexts at that time) brought her closer to her family and influenced her understanding of group connectedness. To get there, Sayra’s journey included going into engineering instead of medicine, coming to Canada for her PhD, learni ..read more
The Curiosity Habit
1y ago
Have you ever seen Derry Girls? If yes, that will give you an idea of what Jenny Johnston’s childhood and teen years were like. In this episode, Sayra and Jenny’s experiences of educating and being educated, what closeness to the earth means to her, and the small advantages of living on a tiny island ..read more