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. Highlights from the issue include: Medical Education Must Move from the Information Age to the Age of Artificial Intelligence Wartman and colleagues assert that to address the transition from the information age to the age of artificial intelligence, medical education needs to include systematic curricular attention to the organization of professional effort among health professionals, the use of intelligence tools like machine learning, and a relentless focus on improving performance and patient outcomes. Honoring Thy Self in the Transition to Online Teaching Maggio and colleagues explain why understanding Pratt’s five teaching perspectives—Transmission, Apprenticeship, Developmental, Nurturing, and Social Reform—may help health professions education faculty members enhance their online teaching, provide a framework for faculty development, and lead to new avenues of research. Web-Enabled Mechanistic Case Diagramming: A Novel Tool for Assessing Students’ Ability to Integrate Foundational and Clinical Sciences Ferguson and colleagues describe how mechanistic case diagrams are a useful tool for assessing students’ ability to incorporate basic science and clinical information, especially as medical schools move from discipline-based courses to more integrated approaches. Characteristics of Successful Internal Medic...
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