What ’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine

What’s New: A Preview of the November Issue The November issue of Academic Medicine is now available! Read the entire issue online at academicmedicine.org. Highlights from the issue include: Addressing Student Burnout: What Medical Schools Can Learn From Business Schools Pathipati and Cassel use their business and medical school experience to outline three business school practices—fostering creative thinking, providing stress management training, and offering career counseling—that may help alleviate the problem of burnout among medical trainees. Reexamining the Call of Duty: Teaching Boundaries in Medical School Chen and colleagues present concepts related to boundaries in medicine, examples of boundary challenges, factors that could contribute to boundary concerns, potential consequences of boundary violations, and a curriculum for teaching medical students about boundaries. Using Assessment Point Accumulation as a Guide to Identify Students at Risk for Interrupted Academic Progress Cendán and colleagues found they could identify medical students at risk of interruptions in their academic progress using a graph similar to the highly visual pediatric growth curve. Gender Differences in Academic Medicine: Retention, Rank, and Leadership Comparisons From the National Faculty Survey Carr and colleagues discovered that with or without number of refereed publications as a variable, women faculty at representative U.S. medical schools were less likely than men to advance ...
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