Adrian Reynolds is the founding director of the Office of Academic Enrichment and assistant professor of professional practice in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. With over two decades of teaching and academic coaching experience, he specializes in the applied learning sciences, integrating socio-cognitive and sociocultural approaches to support learners across the educational continuum. Since 2016, he has conducted more than 1,000 one-on-one academic coaching sessions with medical students, residents, and fellows, while also launching high-impact academic support programs and developing science of learning courses for learners from high school to graduate levels. His scholarship, published in journals such as Medical Teacher (2020) and Clinical Teacher (2022), focuses on building adaptive learning skills through personalized academic coaching. More recently, he has incorporated large language models into coaching to enhance goal attainment, academic achievement, and well-being. More of his work can be found on his podcast and LinkedIn.
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Ten years. That’s how long I carried around this idea I just couldn’t seem to put into action. I wanted to speak openly about this tension I felt as both an academician and an ordained minister. Yes, this false notion that my academic life and my spiritual life had to run on separate tracks. Not only did I want to openly discuss this tension; I wanted to do something about …
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“Did I get dumber?” This poignant question from a medical student, asked in frustration after receiving a lower-than-expected grade, became the focus of a forty-five-minute academic coaching session. Simply put, my role as a learning specialist was to foster a mindset shift: from “my grade determines my self-worth” to “my grade reflects where I am in my learning right now and guides my next steps.” Helping the student build this …
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