What’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine

What’s New: A Preview of the July Issue The July 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. Highlights from the issue include: After the “Doc Fix”: Implications of Medicare Physician Payment Reform for Academic Medicine Rich and Reschovsky examine the potential effects of alternative payment models on the work of academic clinical program leaders endeavoring to sustain the tripartite mission of patient care, education, and research. Race Matters? Examining and Rethinking Race Portrayal in Preclinical Medical Education Tsai and colleagues seek to use their initiatives and this article to spark critical discussion on how to use teaching of race to work against racial inequality in health care. Taking Risk: Early Results From Teaching Hospitals’ Participation in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative Kivlahan and colleagues review early outcomes and observations from the Association of American Medical Colleges cohort of teaching hospitals participating in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative and propose additional opportunities for research related to alternative payment models. Pregnancy and Parental Leave During Graduate Medical Education Blair and colleagues found approximately 40% of respondents planned to have children during their graduate medical education (GME) training; mos...
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