What ’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine

What’s New: A Preview of the May Issue The May 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: Role Modeling and Regional Health Care Intensity: U.S. Medical Student Attitudes Toward and Experiences With Cost-Conscious Care Leep Hunderfund and colleagues found that medical students endorsed barriers to cost-conscious care and reported encountering conflicting physician role-modeling behaviors. Students in higher-health-care-intensity regions reported observing significantly fewer cost-conscious role-modeling behaviors. A blog post related to this article is available. Building a Global, Online Community of Practice: The OPENPediatrics World Shared Practices Video Series Wolbrink and colleagues, each month, the OPENPediatrics World Shared Practices video series releases a 30–45 minute video featuring an expert in pediatric critical care medicine, interspersed with questions for the audience. Viewers contribute to the community discussion by leaving comments that display alongside the video. Making Management Skills a Core Component of Medical Education Management skills are largely undeveloped in medical education. To address this, Myers and Pronovost argue that medical schools should partner with organizational scholars to offer a “Management 101” course in the medical curriculum. Assessment for Systems Learning: A Holistic ...
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