Attending Learn Serve Lead 2019: The AAMC Annual Meeting?
Stop
by Booth #518 in the Phoenix Convention Center North Building: Hall BCD!
You can pick up a copy of recent issues of Academic Medicine and chat with our editorial staff.
Participate in one or both of our sessions on writing, scholarship, and the medical education literature!
Friday, November 8 11:00 am – 12:30 pm, Convention Center West: 101 Writing Effective Titles and Abstracts: Making Your Scholarship Stand Out
Sunday, November 10 10:30 am – 11:45 am, Convention Center North: 127 A Conversation Among Readers, Editors, and Authors About the Medical Education Literature
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Source: Academic Medicine Blog - November 5, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured academic medicine journal Learn Serve Lead Source Type: blogs
Exploring Students ’ Interprofessional Health Systems Science Experiences From a Communities of Practice Perspective: What We Learned and What’s Next?
Looking back on my training, I
gained an early appreciation of what other health professionals could do.
Perhaps this was because, as someone who aspired to be a geriatrician since
medical school, I observed many different ways in which an interprofessional
team optimized my older adult patients’ health by skillfully addressing their
medical and psychosocial needs. However, many of my peers had a different
experience due to only brief and sporadic opportunities for interprofessional
collaboration, which was not an explicit learning objective of our medical
school and residency education.
Fortunately, since I finished
...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 22, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective health systems science interprofessional Source Type: blogs
Why Electronic Health Records Should Be Wikified
Clinical documentation is an inescapable part
of a clinician’s everyday experience. It is one of the “arts” of medicine
rarely formally taught. Instead, most clinicians learn how to write a note in
call rooms and side halls, usually through some hasty teaching by a harried
resident. The clarity that is asked of medical students is too often replaced
by the brevity insisted upon by long hours and heavy workloads.
Electronic health records (EHRs) are
essentially digital recreations of paper charts without leveraging how
technology can be an improvement over paper.
Unfortunately, despite their advances in secur...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 15, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective academic medical center electronic health records medical education patient care Source Type: blogs
The Echoes of Patient Safety Events: Errors in Third Year
Conclusion/Takeaways
These stories are constantly shaping us; when we notice, think, and share them, how can it not be for the better? None of these stories has an end, because we remember them; they echo. There is multifaceted value in their retelling and reworking, clinically and personally. The curriculum provides students with a platform (the structured assignment), mentorship (the physician reader), and dialogue within a community of peers (the class debrief). It provides faculty with new eyes: the emotion and introspection that can blur with long practice. Together the pieces of the curriculum remind us how much st...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 8, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective medical errors medical students patient safety Source Type: blogs
Appearance-Based Discrimination in GME Resident Selection
Societal awareness of racial, gender, and ethnic bias has
increased, but other stigmatized groups remain at risk for exclusion. It is
important to consider lesser known forms of bias and their potential for
influencing behavior.
To this end, in our recent Academic Medicine article, we used the application
photograph to study the impact of applicants’ physical appearance on the
selection of radiology residents, and found that the applicant’s obesity and
facial attractiveness strongly influenced decisions to grant residency
interviews. We found this unfortunate pattern of appearance-based
discrimination across the sp...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 24, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective appearance-based bias graduate medical education resident selection Source Type: blogs
Addressing Reviewer Comments Recap: Key Takeaways and Additional Resources
So far this week, we’ve
shared tips for addressing reviewer comments that have come from the
literature, longtime Academic
Medicine authors, editorial board members, and the editorial staff.
If you missed any of these, you can find them here.
Today, we’d like to
close the series by highlighting some key takeaways from the advice and tips
we’ve shared this week and sharing some additional resources for authors.
Key
Takeaways
1. Getting a revise decision is good news! The reviewers and
editors believe in your paper.
2. Acknowledge and thank the reviewers for their efforts.
3. When working with co-au...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 13, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Addressing Reviewer Comments Series Archive Featured author resources peer review scholarship writing series Source Type: blogs
Staff Suggestions for Addressing Reviewer Comments
To complement the advice from our longtime authors and editorial board members that we shared earlier this week, today we’re sharing suggestions from the Academic Medicine editorial staff. This post is part of a series on tips for addressing reviewer comments during the revisions part of the publication process. You can read the other posts in the series here.
Importance of addressing editor comments
Revising your manuscript to address reviewer and editor comments can take a lot of time and effort. You may (understandably!) be tired by the time you get through the reviewer comments. But don’t forget to addr...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 12, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Addressing Reviewer Comments Series Featured author resources peer review scholarship writing series Source Type: blogs
Editorial Board Member Suggestions for Addressing Reviewer Comments
To complement the tips for addressing reviewer comments from longtime Academic Medicine authors that we shared yesterday, today we’re sharing suggestions from Academic Medicine editorial board members. This post is part of a series on tips for addressing reviewer comments during the revisions part of the publication process. You can read the other posts in the series here.
Arno K. Kumagai, MD, Department of Medicine, University of
Toronto Faculty of Medicine, and Wilson Centre, and Women’s College Hospital
and University of Toronto
1. Acknowledge the work and attention that the reviewers have paid to t...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 11, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Addressing Reviewer Comments Series Featured author resources peer review scholarship writing series Source Type: blogs
Author Suggestions for Addressing Reviewer Comments
To complement the tips for addressing reviewer
comments that we shared yesterday, today we’re sharing suggestions from
longtime Academic
Medicine authors. This post is part of a series on
tips for addressing reviewer comments during the revisions part of the
publication process. You can read the other posts in the series here.
Daniel
J. Schumacher, MD, MEd, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
It’s important to not take reviewer comments personally. They
want to see the paper published or they would not have asked for revisions.
Rememb...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 10, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Addressing Reviewer Comments Series Featured author resources peer review scholarship writing series Source Type: blogs
Tips to Move from “Revisions Needed” to Resubmission
As an author, you may struggle when you receive a decision letter that requires revisions to your manuscript. Where do you start? How do you address everything the reviewers have asked? How do you organize your changes and convey them to the journal’s editors?
This week, we’ll be sharing tips for addressing reviewer comments. Each day we’ll offer suggestions, from the literature, longtime Academic Medicine authors, editorial board members, and the editorial staff, to help you navigate this challenging (but exciting!) part of the publication process. Be sure to check back each day for new content. You ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 9, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Addressing Reviewer Comments Series Featured author resources peer review scholarship writing series Source Type: blogs
Call for Letters to the Editor From Student and Resident Authors: Firsts
Academic Medicine is seeking original submissions for our Letters to the Editor feature from medical students, residents, and fellows on the topic of “first” experiences during health professions education.
“First” experiences are wide-ranging and include, for example, the first time a learner engages in taking a history, making a new diagnosis, assisting in delivering a baby, caring for a patient at the end of her life, or working on an interprofessional team. “First” experiences are central to the formation of one’s identity as a physician and often tie to larger issues w...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 26, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured call for papers trainee Source Type: blogs
Breaking the Silence Around Shame in Medical Education
As a child, I was deemed good at math. And so
my fourth-grade teacher expressed surprise when I scored an 89% on a test.
After passing out our grades, she called me to her desk. I remember feeling
very small as I stood before her in my green and yellow plaid tunic, the
uniform at my Catholic school. She looked at me sternly, pointed to my score,
and asked, “What happened?”
I now recognize that the emotion I experienced
in that moment was shame. Whereas guilt is an emotion focused on a specific
action, shame is a global feeling about oneself. Rather than thinking, “I made a mistake,” the way I felt was “I am a...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 22, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: ATLAS Featured Trainee Perspective Academic Medicine podcast medical education resilience shame well-being Source Type: blogs
“ I need you to forgive yourself ” : Shame in Medicine and Medical Education
Joining the Academic Medicine Podcast to discuss shame in medicine and medical education and their research and other work in this area are Will Bynum (@WillBynumMD), Lara Varpio (@LaraVarpio), and Ashley Adams (@AshleyAdamsMD).
This episode is now available through iTunes and the Apple Podcast app, Spotify, GooglePlay, Stitcher, and SoundCloud.
Read more about these topics, including the articles discussed in this episode, at academicmedicine.org and theshameconvo.com. A transcript of this episode is available upon request from academicmedici...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 19, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Guest Perspective Academic Medicine podcast medical education medical student resident resilience shame well-being Source Type: blogs
Being Lost and Found: How Being a Caregiver Shaped Me
As a palliative care physician, I often spend time with
patients and families talking about their hopes, worries, and sources of
strength. Part of this work involves helping people confront uncertainty in
what lies ahead and be able to hold opposing truths as they face serious
illness. You can feel the best you’ve felt in months and still be dying of
cancer. You may not be able to get out of bed and be completely dependent on
others, and still find joy in every day moments with your loved ones. I think
of caregiving in the same way. It is a hard, humbling, isolating adventure that
veers your life in a direction you didn...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 13, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective caregiver care caregivers physician-patient relationship Source Type: blogs
Why I Spoke with the Dalai Lama About Compassion in Medicine
I distinctly recall the moment I decided to become a
physician. I was sitting on a bench in
the hallway of Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, beside my aunt and older
cousin, as we waited for the physicians to complete their examination of my
beloved grandmother, in her early 90s, who was seriously ill. She doted on all of her grandchildren,
particularly me, as I was the youngest. I
loved my grandmother dearly. I recall
seeing the doctors, dressed in their white uniforms, emerge from her room,
holding her life in their hands. They eagerly
reported what turned out to be good news, and thankfull...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 23, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective compassion humanism in medicine medical education patient care Source Type: blogs
