Editorial Board Q & A: Grace Huang, MD

This article sits right in the wheelhouse of Academic Medicine, the journal, because it targets a universal problem in academic medicine the sector.  Organizational buy-in is challenging as a science, and frameworks like this provide a roadmap for leaders wanting to institute change.  Ericsson KA. Deliberate practice and the acquisition and maintenance of expert performance in medicine and related domains. Acad Med. 2004 Oct;79(10 Suppl):S70-81. Professor Ericsson recently came to speak with us at Harvard Medical School, and it gave me a new perspective on the critical value of practice and feedback.  No serious athlete or musician would get away with not practicing.  And all other professionals get feedback on their performance.  Yet the nature of our craft is such we only practice <5% of the time and our clinical performance is not commonly scrutinized.  That what we do is arguably the most important work in the world makes this wholeheartedly distressing, and deliberate practice is a viewfinder through which we should be examining our own growth (or stagnancy) as clinicians. What issues will we be reading about in Academic Medicine in five years?  As the interface between teacher and learner continues to blur, we will be reading more about peer learning and student-as-teacher programs. We will fully recognize the power of simulation and will use it routinely for high stakes assessment. Lastly, I pray in 5 years we will be reading about what we learned in conqu...
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