What ’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine

What’s New: A Preview of the April Issue The April 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: Engaging Learners to Advance Medical Education Burk-Rafel and colleagues, all medical students, contextualize themes discussed in a collection of learner-authored letters to the editor and conclude with recommendations to engage learners in leadership, advocacy, and scholarship. Check back throughout the month for additional content on this topic. Creating 21st-Century Laboratories and Classrooms for Improving Population Health: A Call to Action for Academic Medical Centers DeVoe and colleagues argue for strengthening bidirectional connections between disease-based approaches to managing health and community-based approaches to promoting health through studying social and population determinants of health. From Communication Skills to Skillful Communication: A Longitudinal Integrated Curriculum for Critical Care Medicine Fellows Communication with patients and families in critical care medicine (CCM) can be complex and challenging. Roze des Ordons and colleagues develop and implement a curriculum for CCM fellows at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, to promote the longitudinal development of skillful communication. Bringing Rounds Back to the Patient: A One-Year Evaluation of the Chiefs’ Service Model for Inpati...
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