Academic Medicine ’s Response to COVID-19
When the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States just 3 short months ago, perhaps few would have predicted the profound effects we are now experiencing throughout our society. One thing, however, was always certain: those who care for patients, teach, learn, and conduct research at academic health centers would find themselves on the front lines of this nation’s response to the global pandemic and soon would have knowledge and insight about their experiences to share.
Between the end of February and mid-April, Academic Medicine has already received nearly 80 submissions from authors around the world ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - April 16, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Academic Medicine COVID-19 Source Type: blogs
The Generosity of Health Professionals Across Academic Medicine in Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic
On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and editor-in-chief Dr. Laura Roberts (@_Roberts_Laura) and guest Dr. Alison Whelan (@AlisonWhelanMD) discuss how academic medicine is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact the crisis has had on the many mission areas of the field. They also discuss how the pandemic is affecting health professionals at all levels as well as the lasting changes to medicine and medical education that we might see, including how society views and values health professionals.
This episode is now available through iTunes and the Apple Podcasts app and wherever else you...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - April 16, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Guest Perspective Academic Medicine podcast coronavirus COVID-19 health professions medical education pandemic Source Type: blogs
Call for Letters to the Editor From Trainees: Courage, Connection, and COVID-19
Academic Medicine is seeking original submissions for our Letters to the Editor feature from medical students, residents, and fellows on the topic of courage, connection, and COVID-19.
The global pandemic of COVID-19 reached the United States in January 2020, and people throughout the world have been affected by this virus in some way. Education of health professionals has shifted quickly and dramatically, and academic health centers where we all learn, discover, and serve patients and society are on the front line of the fight against COVID-19. In this unprecedented time, we want to hear how COVID-19 is c...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - April 9, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured call for papers fellows medical students residents Source Type: blogs
The Art of Education Research: Reflections on the Philosophy of Science Series
I think each of us, sometime in our life, has wanted to paint a picture. –Bob Ross1
I’m a former arts teacher who
ended up working in health professions education (HPE) research. I absolutely
love my job, but I never could have imagined I’d end up working in this field.
And what a pleasure it is to be part of this community—it’s a wonderful world,
full of generous, thoughtful people. I love that HPE research allows me to
combine my interest in thinking critically about education with my drive to do
creative work. Planning a research project—taking an idea from concept to publication
(or some other product)...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - April 7, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective Uncategorized health professions education philosophy of science research Source Type: blogs
A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock ‘N Roll: Using Different Paradigms to Conduct Your HPE Work
On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and associate editor Dr. Bridget O’Brien (@bobrien_15) and guests Drs. Lara Varpio (@LaraVarpio) and Anna MacLeod (@ammacleod) discuss the recently published Philosophy of Science series. This collection of articles has something for everyone. It includes primers on 7 different paradigms (or collections of ideas about how we see the world) to help readers think about their HPE work in new ways.
This episode is now available through iTunes and the Apple Podcasts app and wherever else you get your podcasts.
Read the articles discussed in this episode, incl...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - March 26, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Guest Perspective HPE philosophy of science research Source Type: blogs
My Infertility Journey as a Woman in Medicine
Editor’s Note: For more on the challenges as well as strategies to address physician infertility, please read this Academic Medicine Invited Commentary, cowritten by the author of this blog post.
Most of us in medicine pride ourselves on being organized, detail-oriented, conscientious and able to achieve excellent results with enough hard work—and are not used to failure and loss of control. My experience with infertility has been the first time that I truly experienced failure and complete loss of control, realizing that fertility is not a merit-based system. No matter how hard I try, how many doctors I cons...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - March 11, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective infertility physician well-being women in academic medicine Source Type: blogs
Book Review: Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
The
age demographics of the world’s population are changing. In 2015, 9% (617.1
million people) of the globe’s estimated 7.3 billion people were aged 65 years
and older.1 That number is projected to increase to 12% (1 billion
people) by 2030 and to 17% (1.6 billion people) by 2050.1 Within the
United States, a rise in the percent of the population aged 65 and older, from
13.7% in 2012 to a projected 20.3% by 2030,2 will inevitably impact the makeup of the patient
population throughout the American health care system. According to a recent New York Times article, a federal model estimates
30% of those over 65 would bene...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - February 25, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective book review elderhood geriatrics late-career transitions Source Type: blogs
Here ’s How We Did It: Eliminating Barriers of Early Medical Education Scholarship
Although a randomized, controlled education study may be the ultimate goal in medical education research, a new attending physician may not possess the confidence, experience, or skills to do so in year one. In our Academic Medicine Last Page “Hit the Ground Running: Engaging Early-Career Medical Educators in Scholarly Activity,” we encourage our physician colleagues to broaden the scope of what counts as medical education scholarly work by presenting four tips for learning the landscape, four types of presentation-based work, and four types of publication-based work in order of complexity. To supplement this guide, he...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - February 18, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective faculty development medical education scholarship mentorship scholarly publishing Source Type: blogs
Tips for the Medical Educator ’s “Elevator Pitch”
Ever wonder what to say when you’re standing next to a senior colleague who could help further your work? Cue your elevator pitch!
In this video, David Acosta, MD, and Daniel Hashimoto, MD, MS, demonstrate what to do (and what not to do) to successfully deliver your med ed elevator pitch.
The tips in this video are adapted from Dzara K, Kesselheim J. Going up? Tips for the medical educator’s “elevator pitch.” Acad Med. 2018;93:1884. (Source: Academic Medicine Blog)
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - February 4, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Multimedia Video elevator pitch medical educator professional development Source Type: blogs
How to Empower Medical Residents to Speak Up and Share Their Suggestions for Change
Medical residents are
experts on work “how it’s done,” as they work at the frontline of health care
delivery day in day out. This means that they are valuable sources of
information to improve the quality of health care. However, my colleagues’ and
my research, presented in a recent Academic Medicine article, suggests that residents tend to remain silent when they have ideas for
change. In short, they feel that it is not safe to speak up or that it would
not make a difference. In this blog post, I offer suggestions for how to
empower medical residents in your training program or organization to share
their valuable...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - January 28, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective quality improvement quality of care residents speaking up Source Type: blogs
What Should Academics Know About Lobbying Law?
Academics sometimes get a bad rap for being stuck in their ivory towers. But many academics realize that their expertise can be useful to policymakers and aim to make it widely available through a variety of avenues. We write op-eds, publish in policy-oriented journals, send letters to elected officials, write amicus briefs, submit comments on proposed regulations, serve on advisory committees, and offer testimony. At the current political moment, these types of public engagement and advocacy activities are particularly salient for academics doing work relevant to health and science policy, topics at the top of the nationa...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - January 14, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective academic advocacy faculty health policy law lobbying Source Type: blogs
Illness Scripts 101: The Medical Student ’s Guide to Quickly Creating a Differential Diagnosis
When I started medical school three years ago, I did not know that I was entering a profession in which I would constantly race the clock. However, in the era of expanding patient volumes, it has become imperative for health professionals to use their time efficiently. So, what is a young, energetic, and eager medical student to do when the attending physician assigns 20 minutes to see a patient and present a differential diagnosis with a plan? Use illness scripts!
Illness scripts are mental cue cards that health professionals use to represent a certain disease, like they’re described in a recent Academic Medicine La...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 17, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Trainee Perspective clerkship diagnostic reasoning medical education medical students Source Type: blogs
#Shemergency Reflections: An Inside Look at an Innovative Professional Development Group to Promote the Recruitment and Retention of Female Residents
Conclusion
R.G.
and E.T.: We are proud to be a part of the #Shemergency movement and hope it
continues to grow in the future. We are both looking forward to future events,
including an upcoming simulation session focusing on code leadership skills.
By: Rachel Gartland, MD, and Erica Tabakin, MD
Further Reading
Khatri UG, Love J,
Zeidan A, Hsu CH, Mills AM. #Shemergency: Use of a professional development
group to promote female resident recruitment and retention [published online
ahead of print August 27, 2019.] Acad Med. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002969 (Source: Academic Medicine Blog)
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 10, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective gender inequities professional development women in medicine Source Type: blogs
Why Does the Harvard Case on Asian American Discrimination in Admissions Matter for Academic Medicine?
In 2014, Students
for Fair Admissions (SFFA), led by activist Edward Blum, filed a suit against
Harvard University, contending that the Harvard
admissions process unfairly discriminates against Asian American applicants. The
SFFA further argued that to remedy this outcome, Harvard must remove
considerations of race and ethnicity in its holistic admissions approach.
In a recent Academic Medicine Perspective, we summarized the arguments made by both the SFFA and Harvard in the case and discussed the implications for medical education admissions. We clarified the difference between claims of anti-Asian American discrimina...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 3, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective diversity and inclusion Harvard case holistic admissions Source Type: blogs
The Role of Podcasts as Educational Tools in Medical Education
Joining the Academic Medicine Podcast to discuss the current role of podcasts as educational tools in medical education, new research on the topic, and why podcasts are here to stay are guest host and assistant editor for trainee engagement Dr. Jesse Burk-Rafel (@jbrafel), podcasters Drs. Shreya Trivedi (@ShreyaTrivediMD) and Jess Mason (@JessMasonMD), and researcher Dr. Jeff Riddell (@Jeff__Riddell).
This episode is now available through iTunes and the Apple Podcasts app and wherever else you get your podcasts.
Read more about this topic, including the article discussed in this episode, at academicmedicine.org. ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - November 18, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Guest Perspective communities of practice GME medical education personalized learning podcasts Source Type: blogs
