What’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine

What’s New: A Preview of the February Issue The February issue of Academic Medicine is now available! Read the entire issue online at academicmedicine.org or on your iPad using the Academic Medicine for iPad app. The issue includes a cluster of articles on entrustment; other highlights include: Health Care Transformation: A Strategy Rooted in Data and Analytics In this New Conversations piece, Koster and colleagues review three examples of the transformational force of data and analytics to improve health care and examine academic medicine’s vital role in guiding the needed changes. Amending Miller’s Pyramid to Include Professional Identity Formation To ensure the development of professional identity is included in the structured assessment of medical competencies, Cruess and colleagues propose that a fifth level (“Is”) be added at the apex of Miller’s pyramid. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Successful Completion of Anesthesia Residency: A Case Report Fitzsimons and colleagues discuss how trainees’ cognitive disabilities may impede learning. Accommodations and follow-up for one trainee’s unique learning practices are described; perspectives of trainee, program director, and clinical competency director are considered. Wisdom in Medicine: What Helps Physicians After a Medical Error? Plews-Ogan and colleagues interview doctors who coped well with medical error. These doctors provide insights that might highlight specific ways to help clinicians ...
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