Hijacking the Hallway Conversation: How Sponsorship Supports Career Development
Sponsorship, as highlighted in Gottlieb and Travis’ recent article in Academic Medicine, is all about the “hallway conversations” and having someone partake in those conversations who believes in and will vouch for you. And it is the sponsor’s trust in you that, in turn, pushes you to believe that you actually have the capabilities they envision.
Let me tell you about an unexpected hallway conversation that changed my life.
The CEO of my institution’s medical group bumped into my research mentor in the hallway one day. The CEO expressed that population health and value-based payment models are becoming increasi...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - November 13, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective career development mentorship sponsorship women in medicine Source Type: blogs
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
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Source: Academic Medicine Blog - November 6, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Issue Preview Uncategorized assessment medical student wellness medical students women in academic medicine Source Type: blogs
Author Reading: Et Tu?
“I wondered to myself … knowing what I now did, would I be comfortable seeing this patient again? Could I rely on myself to give careful, considerate thought to his overall well-being? Would I be willing to be his doctor?”
Medical student Walter Klyce describes coming to terms with caring for a patient who made racist comments during a clinical encounter.
This new episode of our podcast is now available through iTunes, the Apple Podcast app, and SoundCloud. His essay was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the October issue of Academic Medicine.
Further Reading
Klyce W. Et tu?. Acad Med. ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 30, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Trainee Perspective bedside learning doctor-patient relationship patient care professionalism teaching and learning moments Source Type: blogs
Meet the Academic Medicine Editorial Board: What Was Your First Publication?
Do all medical educators start out by publishing advanced research? Or do some try their hand at something else first? We asked the members of the Academic Medicine editorial board about their first publication. This is what they said.
M. Brownell Anderson, National Board of Medical Examiners
Except for serving as editor of my high school newspaper, my first publication was: Soler NG, Mast TA, Anderson MB, Kienzler L. A logbook system for monitoring student skills and experiences. J Med Educ. 1981;56:775-777. My first publication as first author was: Anderson MB, Mast TA, Soler NG. A required internal medicine preceptorsh...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 23, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Editorial Board Q & A Featured Academic Medicine Anthony R. Artino Jr Brenessa Lindeman Bridget C. O’Brien Carrie L. Byington Christopher S. Candler Colin P. West Denice Cora-Bramble Grace Huang John P. Sánchez M. Brownell Ander Source Type: blogs
Author Reading: Birds of Prey
“We stood together, not as doctor and patient, but as lovers of the written word arrested by its enduring beauty.”
Internal medicine resident Dominic Decker describes connecting with a patient, not over her diagnosis or treatment but over their shared love of poetry.
This new episode of our podcast is now available through iTunes, the Apple Podcast app, and SoundCloud. His essay was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the October issue of Academic Medicine.
Further Reading
Decker D. Birds of prey. Acad Med. 2018;93:1453. (Source: Academic Medicine Blog)
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 16, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Trainee Perspective bedside learning narrative medicine patient care teaching and learning moments Source Type: blogs
The Med in Social Media: The Role Twitter Can Play in the Medical Student Toolkit
Medical school is a melting pot of passions and intellect. Therefore, I was surprised when it was here that I felt, for the first time, alone in my interests. I had fallen in love with the idea of using social media as a health care tool for both patients and providers. However, this concept is still in its infancy. With colleagues dedicated to so many different projects, it was difficult to convince them to join a movement that is still finding its place in medicine. Additionally, many of us are wary of putting our professional reputations at risk before they even have a chance to form. Statements made on social media in ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 9, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Trainee Perspective medical education social media Twitter Source Type: blogs
Signposting Teaching Moments: Get Credit for What You Already Do
Hospitals around the country are struggling to accommodate the increasing number of patients requiring acute inpatient care while physician staffing remains relatively stagnant. Every time the emergency department goes into divert mode, the natural question is: “Why can’t the residents just take more patients? Can resident duty hours and teaching time preservation just be waived for a little while?” For clinical educators, the census and complexity of an inpatient service has a major effect on the time available for teaching. We ultimately want to provide the best learning experience for our students and resid...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 25, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective clinical educators rounds teaching strategies Source Type: blogs
A New Conversation on Trust in Health Care and Health Professions Education
Broken hands on broken ploughs
Broken treaties, broken vows
Broken pipes, broken tools
People bending broken rules
Hound dog howling, bullfrog croaking
Everything is broken.
—Bob Dylan, “Everything is Broken”
For many patients, Bob Dylan’s lyrics may as well have been written about the U.S. health care system. While everything may not actually be broken, there has certainly been an erosion of trust in physicians during my career. In 1966, 73% of Americans reported having great confidence in the leaders of medicine; in 2012, that number had fallen to 34%.1
I see this lack of trust most keenly in the eyes of p...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 20, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: David P. Sklar, M.D. Tags: Featured From the Editor health care teams learning environment New Conversations patient care trust Source Type: blogs
Climate Crisis Call to Action: Major Obstacles but Hope for an “Energized Base”
We have known for more than half a century that the earth is heating up and scientists have long foretold the consequences. Yet in these same decades, the earth’s population has increased dramatically; the demand for convenience, quality of life, and consumer goods has expanded; energy consumption and CO2 emissions have skyrocketed; and we are living in the hottest climate on record. So why aren’t we doing more to stop this catastrophe?
One way to answer this question is by contrasting our inertia with the successful response to another public health crisis: the AIDS epidemic. Act Up, the political movement of t...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 18, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective climate change medical education medical students physicians Source Type: blogs
GridlockED: A Serious Game for Teaching About Multipatient Environments
Photo courtesy of Thomas Owen and Teresa Chan.
“Emergency department gridlock is in effect.”
I used to hear this nearly every day as a clinical clerk, but at first, I had no idea what it really meant.
Clinical training starts with an emphasis on the individual patient, as you explore one case at a time to understand what is going on. Over time, you move on to care for multiple patients at once, gaining more responsibility. It is at this point that many students, myself included, struggle. The paradigm changes; it is no longer you and one patient, it is you and three, five, or even twenty patients.
Through trial and err...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 13, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective clinical care emergency department game multiple patients Source Type: blogs
What ’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine
What’s New: A Preview of the September Issue
The September issue of Academic Medicine is now available! Read the entire issue online at academicmedicine.org. Highlights from the issue include:
Gun Violence: Two Medical Students’ Hometown Connection to This Public Health Crisis
Kuhl and colleagues, graduates of Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, argue that health care providers can no longer sit on the sidelines as the public health crisis that is gun violence continues.
I Am an African American: Distinguishing Between African American and African Applicants in Medical School Admissions Matters
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Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 4, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Issue Preview global health health disparities medical education medical school admissions residency Source Type: blogs
Advice from a Master Peer Reviewer
Discussing the peer review process, specifically the practice of evaluating a scholarly article as a peer reviewer, in this new episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast are editor-in-chief David Sklar and senior staff editor Toni Gallo and Carl Stevens, a master reviewer for the journal and a seven-time winner of the Academic Medicine Excellence in Reviewing Award. This episode is meant to be a resource for new and seasoned reviewers who want to improve their reviewing skills.
This episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast is now available through iTunes, the Apple Podcast app, and SoundCloud.
Find more resources for review...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 28, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Audio Featured Interview Peer Reviewer Resources scholarly publishing Source Type: blogs
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 c...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 21, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured admissions call for papers health professions education learning environment medical student resident trainee trust Source Type: blogs
Navigating the Bumpy Yellow Brick Road to Diversity and Inclusion
(From left to right) Kara Toles, MD, Olivia Campa, MD, Erica Thomas, MD, Alicia Agnoli, MD, and Tamika Coy, MD
Editor’s Note: This blog post is part of a collection on the resident selection process. Read other blog posts in the collection here. Read the related Academic Medicine articles here.
As a first-year medical student, I was required to read Beverly Daniel Tatum’s book, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, which resonated. I never thought I would become a physician, having never met a physician outside of my pediatrician’s office. Throughout my education, I struggled to be accepted ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 14, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective diversity and inclusion holistic admissions underrepresented in medicine Source Type: blogs
What ’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine
What’s New: A Preview of the August Issue
The August issue of Academic Medicine is now available! Read the entire issue online at academicmedicine.org. Highlights from the issue include:
Medical Education Must Move from the Information Age to the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Wartman and colleagues assert that to address the transition from the information age to the age of artificial intelligence, medical education needs to include systematic curricular attention to the organization of professional effort among health professionals, the use of intelligence tools like machine learning, and a relentless focus on improvi...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 7, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Issue Preview medical education medical students qualitative research residents scholarly publishing Source Type: blogs
