Author Reading: The Impact of a Premedical Clinical Experience
“I can now passionately answer the age-old question of what I want to be when I grow up. A doctor.”
Pre-med student Matt Orringer reflects on the experiences that connected the dots between his college science courses and real-life patient care, convincing him that medicine is the right career path for him.
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 July issue of Academic Medicine. (Source: Academic Medicine Blog)
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 26, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Trainee Perspective clinical care patient care pre-med teaching and learning moments Source Type: blogs
Author Reading: Who ’ s With Me?
“Instead of dismissing Ms. S as another ‘challenging patient,’ we should have considered her concerns and inquired about her worries, discovered her fears, and explained how our recommendations aligned with her wishes.”
First-year resident Trisha Paul (@trishakpaul2) reflects on a patient encounter that taught her about partnering with patients and their families to decide on mutual goals for healing.
This new episode of our podcast is now available through iTunes, the Apple Podcast app, and SoundCloud. Her essay was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the July issue of Academic...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 24, 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
Race, Surgery, and the American Dream
Hats off to the recent article by Ulloa et al! It speaks to an issue residing at the very core of the unique and multi-colored tapestry that is American society: racism and its effect on the American Dream. The impact of nearly 250 years of legal slavery in North America is as palpable today as ever. And, yes, despite the election of an African-American President of the United States and the black unemployment rate falling below 6% for the first time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started reporting such information, skin color continues to confer a complex, ever present, and frequently suffocating burden on colored p...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 17, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured From the Editor diversity diversity and inclusion Source Type: blogs
Using Step 1 Scores to Screen Residency Applicants: “ We have a serious problem. It ’s in our hands to solve. ”
Discussing the current practice of using USMLE Step 1 scores to screen residency applicants and the effects on medical students and the medical school curriculum in this new episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast are editor-in-chief David Sklar and senior staff editor Toni Gallo (@AcadMedJournal) and four Academic Medicine authors who have written on this topic: Charles Prober, MD, Daniel London, MD, MS (@londonda), Pamela Schaff, MD (@pbs424), and Ron Ben-Ari, MD. They also discuss alternatives to this practice, including developing new metrics or data collection processes to better capture “the full richness of stude...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 10, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Audio Featured Guest Perspective graduate medical education holistic review medical school curriculum resident selection undergraduate medical education USMLE Step 1 wellbeing Source Type: blogs
What ’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine
What’s New: A Preview of the July Issue
The July issue of Academic Medicine is now available! Read the entire issue online at academicmedicine.org. Highlights from the issue include:
The Current Use of United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 Scores: Holistic Admissions and Student Well-being are in the Balance
Moynahan discusses why using Step 1 scores to “screen out” residency applicants to invite for an interview has gained popularity and the unintended effects it has had on holistic admissions, student well-being, and medical school curricula.
Restoring Faculty Vitality in Academic Medicine When Burno...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 5, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Issue Preview burnout medical education medical student wellness professional identity formation Source Type: blogs
My Struggles with Becoming a Din é Pediatrician
Shí eí yah Lacy Manuelito yinishee. Tótsohnii nishli. Tohono O’odham bashichiin. Táchii’nii da shicheii. Oglala da shinali.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Diné (Navajo) language, I said: “My name is Lacy Manuelito. I am of the Diné (Navajo) Nation. My clans are Big Water and Red Running into the Water clan with heritage in the Tohono O’odham and Oglala Lakota Sioux Nation.”
I am currently in my third year of medical school at the University of Arizona, planning on going into general pediatrics. My goal is to return to my hometown of Fort Defiance, Arizona after residency. Fort Defiance is a tight-knit, rur...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - June 26, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Trainee Perspective diversity medical education medical students mentoring professional identity formation Source Type: blogs
Author Reading: In Search of Connection
“Instead of perceiving my humanity as a reason why I may fall short of my patients’ needs and expectations, I now understand that it is also a way I can meet them.”
First-year resident Cindy Lee reflects on a personal experience that drove home the lessons she was learning about patient-centered care. This new episode of our podcast is now available through iTunes, the Apple Podcast app, and SoundCloud. Her essay was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the June issue of Academic Medicine. (Source: Academic Medicine Blog)
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - June 25, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Trainee Perspective bedside manner humanism in medicine patient centered care teaching and learning moments Source Type: blogs
Additional Writing Resources
Thanks for following along with our first-ever writing series, What’s in a Name? How to Write an Effective Title. You can read the other posts in the series here. We hope the strategies and suggestions we shared will be helpful as you write your next journal article, grant proposal, or conference abstract or revise something you’re working on now. To conclude, we want to follow up on last week’s writing exercise and share some additional resources you may find useful.
Title Writing Exercise Follow-Up
The abstract we shared in “Applying What You Learned: Title Writing Exercise” is from an Invited Commentary...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - June 20, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Writing Series health professions education medical education scholarly publishing scholarly writing Source Type: blogs
Applying What You Learned: Title Writing Exercise
It’s time to apply what you’ve learned this week from our writing series, What’s in a Name? How to Write an Effective Title. Just a quick reminder that this series is based on a workshop the Academic Medicine editorial staff developed, so the terminology and examples we use are from Academic Medicine. However, you can apply these strategies to articles you’re writing for other journals, other scholarly publications, grant applications, conference abstracts, and more. You can read “Strategies for Writing Effective Titles, Parts 1 and 2” as well as the other posts in this series here.
Using the strategies ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - June 14, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Writing Series health professions education medical education scholarly publishing scholarly writing Source Type: blogs
Strategies for Writing Effective Titles, Part 2
This article is about patient safety on July 1, which is the day new first-year residents start working in the hospital. “Don’t Kill Granny” was probably a quote from a participant in this study, but it’s not scholarly. “Keeping Granny Safe on July 1” conveys a similar idea (and still mentions Granny!) and is more appropriate in tone for the audience of Academic Medicine.
Sometimes break the rules! In some cases, effective titles break the rules we’ve discussed.
Fake It ’Til You Make It: Pressures to Measure Up in Surgical Training
Is There Hardening of the Heart During Medical School?
These titles l...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - June 13, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Writing Series health professions education medical education scholarly publishing scholarly writing Source Type: blogs
Strategies for Writing Effective Titles, Part 1
Today, we’ll be sharing strategies for writing effective titles as part of our new writing series, What’s in a Name? How to Write an Effective Title. Just a quick reminder that this series is based on a workshop the Academic Medicine editorial staff developed, so the terminology and examples we use are from Academic Medicine. However, you can apply these strategies to articles you’re writing for other journals, other scholarly publications, grant applications, conference abstracts, and more. You can read the first post, “Why Titles Are Important,” as well as the other posts in this series here.
What are some stra...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - June 12, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Writing Series health professions education medical education scholarly publishing scholarly writing Source Type: blogs
Why Titles Are Important
Over the next few days, we’ll be sharing strategies for writing effective titles in our new writing series, What’s in a Name? How to Write an Effective Title. We’ll end the week with a writing exercise so you can practice what you’ve learned. This writing series is based on a workshop the Academic Medicine editorial staff developed, so the terminology and examples we use are from Academic Medicine. However, you can apply these strategies to articles you’re writing for other journals, other scholarly publications, grant applications, conference abstracts, and more.
Let’s start with a basic question:
Why are titl...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - June 11, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Writing Series health professions education medical education scholarly publishing scholarly writing Source Type: blogs
What ’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine
What’s New: A Preview of the June Issue
The June issue of Academic Medicine is now available! Read the entire issue online at academicmedicine.org. Highlights from the issue include:
The Time Is Now: Using Graduates’ Practice Data to Drive Medical Education Reform
Triola and colleagues find efforts to link publicly available clinical practice data to educational process data hold the potential to accelerate medical education research and innovation, transforming how the future physician workforce is trained.
Who Am I, and Who Do I Strive to Be? Applying a Theory of Self-Conscious Emotions to Medical Education
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Source: Academic Medicine Blog - June 5, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Issue Preview humanities in medicine medical education medical students professional identity formation residency Source Type: blogs
Join us for the first #AcMedWorkshop!
Writing a grant proposal or a conference abstract? Getting ready to submit a paper to your favorite medical education journal? Just want to be a better writer? Check out Academic Medicine’s upcoming blog series, What’s in a Name? How to Write an Effective Title.
From June 11-15, the editorial staff will be sharing strategies for writing effective titles, like how to grab readers’ attention and optimize your work for Google. A final title writing exercise will let you practice what you’ve learned.
Follow us on Twitter at @AcadMedJournal to get alerts about this #AcMedWorkshop and check back here for new content. (S...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - May 31, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Writing Series health professions education medical education scholarly publishing scholarly writing Source Type: blogs
Author Reading: No, Thank YOU
“I am thankful for the opportunity to have grown so much in my medical knowledge … But what stands out most are the times I truly connected with my patients.”
Medical student Victor Hsiao reflects on those patients who generously shared their lives with him in this new episode of our podcast, now available through iTunes, the Apple Podcast app, and SoundCloud. His essay was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the May issue of Academic Medicine. (Source: Academic Medicine Blog)
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - May 29, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Trainee Perspective bedside learning doctor-patient relationship medical school patient care social history storytelling Source Type: blogs
