Taking Risks & Teaching the Next Generation with Dr. Jed Wolpaw
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“If you wait till you have everything you need and you are 100% ready, you’re never going to launch anything. You’ll never start a project.” Dr. Jed Wolpaw
Season 2 Episode 22: Taking Risks & Teaching the Next Generation with Dr. Jed Wolpaw
In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, your host, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt talks with Dr. Jed Wolpaw who is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and residency program director for the resident training program. They speak about real-life issues working parents face, how to teach it’s okay to fail to the next generation, and a novel way to get kids to eat broccoli!
Drs. Shillcutt & Wolpaw get real and talk:
Teaching it’s OK to Fail
Balancing work & family life
Raising confident kids
Taking risks & sharing gratitude
Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy!
BIOGRAPHY
Jed Wolpaw MD, M.Ed is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and residency program director for the 80 resident training program. He subspecializes in critical care and attends in the surgical ICUs and in the general adult ORs.
Jed graduated magna cum laude with a degree in History from Brown University. He then received a master’s degree in education at Harvard Graduate School of Education and taught high school history. Subsequently he transitioned to medicine, receiving his medical degree from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine where he graduated AOA and was chosen to be the student commencement speaker. He stayed at UCSF to complete his Anesthesia residency. He then came to Johns Hopkins for a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine which he completed in 2015. After completing his fellowship Dr. Wolpaw joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor.
In addition to running the residency program he co-runs both the Anesthesiology clerkship and the ICU clerkship. He is the founder and host of Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC), a podcast focusing on interesting topics in anesthesia and critical care which is has more than 50,000 unique listeners each month around the world.
Dr. Wolpaw has received numerous teaching awards including the Charles Beattie Teacher of the Year award twice, the most prestigious teaching award given by his department each year, and the resident advocacy award in recognition of his work advocating for resident well-being. He was chosen as one of the inaugural winners of the ASA/SEA Distinguished Educator Awards, established in 2019 to honor significant contributions to anesthesiology education. Dr. Wolpaw's research interests include resident well-being, asychronous methods of teaching and learning, and improving the way we teach our trainees. He speaks nationally about resident education, feedback, communication, and well-being. He is the chair of the resident education committee of the Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA) and serves on the board of the Association of Anesthesiology Core Program Directors (AACPD). He is on twitter @jwolpaw and @accracpodcast.