What ’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine

What’s New: A Preview of the April Issue The April issue of Academic Medicine is now available! Read the entire issue online at academicmedicine.org. Highlights from the issue include: Removing Barriers and Facilitating Access: Increasing the Number of Physicians with Disabilities Meeks and colleagues review the state of disability in medical education and discuss ways medical educators can improve inclusion, including emerging technologies that can enhance access for students with disabilities. Criterion-Based Assessment in a Norm-Based World: How Can We Move Past Grades? Pereira and colleagues find that undergraduate medical education faces several challenges in moving successfully to competency-based assessment, among them development of direct observation such as Core EPAs rather than grades.  The Professionalism and Integrity in Research Program: Description and Preliminary Outcomes DuBois and colleagues assert that the PI Program provides remediation training that addresses root causes of violating responsible research conduct. Through assessments, workshops, and follow-up, the program trains researchers using evidence-based strategies. Speaking Up: An Ethical Action Exercise Dwyer and Faber-Langendoen designed ethical action exercise that requires medical students to actively look for problematic situations and actually speak up to try to correct, resolve, or improve one situation. For more information, read the complementing blog post. Six Strategies for Effecti...
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