What ’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine

What’s New: A Preview of the September Issue The September issue of Academic Medicine is now available! Read the entire issue online at academicmedicine.org. Highlights from the issue include: Let’s Get Real About Health Care Reform Karpf argues for an approach to health care policy that understands and accounts for the interdependence between choice, cost, and coverage in a competitive and functional market-based system. It is Time to Cancel Medicine’s Social Contract Metaphor Harris contends that removing medicine’s narrow, overworked social contract metaphor would open the door to a more complex, fruitful consideration of medical professionalism and medicine’s relationship with society. Opposition to Obamacare: A Closer Look Gordon and colleagues describe in detail their observations from a cross-country cycling trip during which they talked with locals about their opinions of the Affordable Care Act. Interprofessional Medical–Legal Education of Medical Students: Assessing the Benefits for Addressing Social Determinants of Health Pettignano and colleagues find that incorporating an interprofessional medical–legal curriculum may result in increased likelihood to screen patients for social determinants of health issues and to refer patients with legal needs to legal resources. A blog post related to this article is available. Changes in Primary Care Graduate Medical Education Are Not Correlated with Indicators of Need: Are States Missing an Opportunity to Stre...
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