What ’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine

  What’s New: A Preview of the December Issue The December issue of Academic Medicine is now available! Read the entire issue online at academicmedicine.org. Highlights from the issue include: San Juan Bautista School of Medicine’s Experience in the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria Brugal and Pérez discuss San Juan Bautista School of Medicine’s actions and lessons learned in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria hitting Puerto Rico in 2017. Going Up? Tips for the Medical Educator’s “Elevator Pitch” Dzara and Kesselheim provide tips for developing an effective professional mission statement to help facilitate career opportunities. Changes in Physicians’ Intrapersonal Empathy After a Communication Skills Training in Japan Fujimori and colleagues found that the intrapersonal empathy of oncologists in Japan increased after a two-day communication skills training workshop. Does Reducing Clerkship Lengths by 25% Affect Medical Student Performance and Perceptions? Monrad and colleagues compared a shortened clerkship cohort to the two preceding traditional clerkship cohorts. The study results provide some evidence that accelerating clinical education may, for the studied student outcomes, be feasible. Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration: A Relational, Partnership Model for Building Educational Capacity Between a High- and Low-Income University In this New Conversations piece, Whitehead and colleagues describe an educational partnership between the University of ...
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