Call for Letters to the Editor From Student and Resident Authors

Academic Medicine is seeking original submissions for our Letters to the Editor feature from medical students, residents, and fellows on the topic of trust in health professions education. This includes but is certainly not limited to personal or professional experiences in the learning or clinical environment involving peers, faculty, or patients; reflections on trust and its effect on medical school operations—admissions, education, student affairs, and community engagement; the influence of the sociopolitical climate on trust within academia; different approaches to addressing and improving trust in the learning and clinical environment; or other content related to trust that you find relevant and timely to the academic medicine community. If you have thoughts on some aspect of the topic of trust in selection and training that you’d like to share, please see our requirements for Letters to the Editor and submit your letter by September 17, 2018. The editors will be looking for letters that offer thoughtful reflections, new insights, and creative suggestions related to the challenges faced in this area. Letters should move beyond describing the problem to possible solutions; we are particularly interested in ideas about how to build trust in the clinical, educational, and research environments that can remedy some of the problems you have observed. We want to hear directly from our learners! Although students and residents are welcome to seek input from faculty mentors,...
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