What ’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine

What’s New: A Preview of the October Issue The October issue of Academic Medicine is now available! Read the entire issue online at academicmedicine.org. Highlights from the issue include: The Daunting Career of the Physician–Investigator McKinney defines three distinct career paths for physician-investigators—clinical researcher, clinician-scientist, and physician-scientist—and the common and distinct challenges they face. Toward an Optimal Pedagogy for Teamwork In this Perspective, Earnest and colleagues propose a three-level classification of pedagogical approaches to teamwork training (minimal, implicit, and explicit team learning) based on the presence of two key learning factors: interdependent work and explicit training in teamwork. Beyond Citation Rates: A Real-time Impact Analysis of Health Professions Education Research Using Altmetrics Maggio and colleagues describe altmetrics, or alternative metrics, and provide a snapshot of health professions education research dissemination via altmetrics channels. Growing altmetrics attention to HPE scholarship signals a broad interest in this kind of research. Clinician–Investigator Training and the Need to Pilot New Approaches to Recruiting and Retaining this Workforce Hall and colleagues summarize the literature on promising training opportunities for clinician-investigators and discuss priorities for future efforts: (1) support for research in residency, (2) new research on-ramps at multiple career stages, and ...
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