What ’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine

What’s New: A Preview of the August Issue The August 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: Continuing Professional Development for Faculty: An Elephant in the House of Academic Medicine or the Key to Future Success? Rayburn and colleagues find that missing from most AMC reform efforts is the preparation of faculty for new models of health care and educational practice. To address this issue, the authors call for the effective, system-aligned presence of continuing professional development programs. Seven Dirty Words: Hot-Button Language That Undermines Interprofessional Education and Practice In this Perspective, Cahn reflects on some of the most charged (or hot-button) words commonly heard in health care and educational settings and suggests possible alternatives that have similar denotations but that also have more collaborative connotations. The MD–MEd Joint-Degree Program at Vanderbilt University: Training Future Expert Medical Educators DeVolder and colleagues describe how this five-year program equips students with robust general education knowledge and skills while providing opportunities, through independent studies and capstone projects, to contextualize these ideas in medical education. A blog post related to this article is available. The Academic RVU: Ten Years Developing a Metric for and Financially Incent...
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