Deans Need Progressive Responsibility Too
Dr. Antman and her family at the 2016 American Heart Association Boston Heart & Stroke Gala
Editor’s Note: This blog post complements the recently published study “The Decanal Divide: Women in Decanal Roles at U.S. Medical Schools.” Read the full study on academicmedicine.org.
By: Karen Antman, MD
Dr. Antman is dean, Boston University School of Medicine, provost, Boston University Medical Campus, and chair, AAMC Council of Deans
Why aren’t more medical school deans women? Medical school faculty don’t normally wake up thinking, “I want to be dean.” How then does one end up there? I was asked to...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 12, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective AAMC Council of Deans Boston University Medical Campus Boston University School of Medicine gender leadership research women 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:
Let’s Get Real About Health Care Reform
Karpf argues for an approach to health care policy that understands and accounts for the interdependence between choice, cost, and coverage in a competitive and functional market-based system.
It is Time to Cancel Medicine’s Social Contract Metaphor
Harris contends that removing medicine’s narrow, overworked social contract metaphor would open the door to a more complex, fruitful consi...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 5, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Issue Preview Affordable Care Act health care reform medical education primary care retirement social determinants of health Source Type: blogs
The Many Facets of Career Flexibility in Academic Medicine: What Does It Mean to You?
By: Lydia Pleotis Howell, MD, professor and chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Davis Health, Sacramento, California.
What does “career flexibility” and “work-life balance” or “work-life integration” mean to you? When I bring these up to department chairs or academic health leaders at my (or other) school(s), I often get openly unenthusiastic responses such as “Don’t you know that we can’t afford to have faculty working less? We need more productivity than ever before!” This is despite the majority of medical schools—including those ranked in U.S. News and...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 29, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective career flexibility well-being work-life balance Source Type: blogs
Author Reading: The Need for Developing a Cultural Understanding With Underserved Minority Patients in Medicine
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Medical student Ajay Kailas recounts two experiences that taught him how open discussion with patients is key to building trusting relationships. His essay was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the August issue of Academic Medicine. (Source: Academic Medicine Blog)
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 22, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Trainee Perspective bedside manner cultural competence doctor-patient relationship underserved populations Source Type: blogs
Editorial Board Q & A: John Paul Sanchez, MD, MPH
John Paul Sanchez, MD, MPH, Assistant Dean, Diversity and Inclusion, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, President, Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians Inc.
Describe your current activities.
My workweek is split between patient care in the emergency department, leading various diversity and inclusion efforts across the medical school (from high school students to faculty members), overseeing the Community-Engaged Service Learning elective, and research related to diversifying the academic medicine workforce.
What gaps do you see in the current academic medi...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 17, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Editorial Board Q & A Featured diversity medical education professional identity formation underrepresented minorities Source Type: blogs
Author Reading: Stupid Consult
A new episode of our podcast is now available through iTunes. Listen today.
In “Stupid Consult,” Jonathan Kersun remembers a patient who taught him about overcoming intolerance and strong emotions to connect with others. His essay was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the August issue of Academic Medicine. (Source: Academic Medicine Blog)
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 14, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Guest Perspective doctor-patient relationship emotions patient care reflection Source Type: blogs
“I Feel that I’m a Human Being There”: A Transgender Older Adult’s Experience With a Family Medicine Clinic
By: K. Abel Knochel, PhD, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota, and Dylan Flunker, MPP, Rainbow Health Initiative, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Melissa is a white, 63-year-old academic. She began identifying to others as female six years ago, although she has self-identified as female throughout her life. Melissa is in the process of transitioning and receives care through Smiley’s Family Medicine Clinic. She discussed her experiences in an interview with the Minnesota Transgender Aging Project (MTAP) in September 2016. MTAP is exploring the care that older transgender adults experience and expect in the Twin Citi...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 10, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective empathy humanism LGBT Minnesota Transgender Aging Project patient Source Type: blogs
Author Reading: Whispers
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In “Whispers,” Raya Kheirbek remembers a patient who taught her to recognize the subtleties and differences in a seemingly shared language and culture. Her essay was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the August issue of Academic Medicine. (Source: Academic Medicine Blog)
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 7, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Guest Perspective cultural competence doctor-patient relationship empathy 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 residents and medical students on the topic of transitions in training. This includes but is certainly not limited to reflections on the application and selection processes for undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education (GME), or post-GME positions; different curricular approaches to preparing learners for these transitions; development of professional identity; cultivation of new skills and responsibilities; or other issues you find important at times of major changes.
If you have thoughts on some aspect of the to...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 7, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured call for papers learners medical students residents 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 or on your iPad using the Academic Medicine for iPad app. Highlights from the issue include:
Continuing Professional Development for Faculty: An Elephant in the House of Academic Medicine or the Key to Future Success?
Rayburn and colleagues find that missing from most AMC reform efforts is the preparation of faculty for new models of health care and educational practice. To address this issue, the authors call for the effective, system-aligned presence of continuing pro...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 3, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Issue Preview burnout interprofessional collaboration medical education professional development simulation Source Type: blogs
Author Reading: Our First Simulator: A Fond Farewell
A new episode of our podcast is now available through iTunes. Listen today.
In this episode, Rami Ahmed reads his essay, “Our First Simulator: A Fond Farewell,” in which he reflects on the role his hospital’s first full-body simulator played in the education of countless physicians, nurses, and medics. 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 27, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Guest Perspective clinical education medical education simulation simulator Source Type: blogs
New Conversations: Justice, Disparities, and Meeting the Needs of Our Most Vulnerable Populations
This is a difficult time in health care. In Washington, health care legislation has advanced that would result in tens of millions of Americans becoming uninsured.1 Proposals to reduce Medicaid funding could affect access to health care among our most vulnerable populations, and the effects of these proposals upon insurance premiums and coverage options for those who purchase insurance through the exchanges are uncertain. All of this has occurred without the support of major health care organizations or consumer groups. How could such momentous changes affecting those most in need of health care access occur without includ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 24, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: David P. Sklar, M.D. Tags: Featured From the Editor health disparities New Conversations social justice vulnerable populations Source Type: blogs
Tips for Reporting P Values, Confidence Intervals, and Power Analyses in Health Professions Education Research: Just Do It!
By: Colin P. West, MD, PhD, Eduardo F. Abbott, MD, and David A. Cook, MD, MHPE
Basic statistical results, including P values, confidence intervals, and power analyses, are variably reported in scientific publications and frequently misunderstood or misapplied. In our current article, Abbott et al, we examined the current prevalence and evolution over time in reporting of P values, confidence intervals, and power analyses in health professions education research (HPER) publications.
We found reporting of P values and confidence intervals in HPER publications increased from the 1970s to 2015, and in 2015, P values were repor...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 18, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective health professions education research statistics Source Type: blogs
Author Reading: From Reflex to Reflection: A Resident ’ s Perspective on Learning in a Clinical Setting
A new episode of our podcast is now available through iTunes. Listen today.
In this episode, Veena Patel reads her essay, “From Reflex to Reflection: A Resident’s Perspective on Learning in a Clinical Setting,” in which she reflects on a patient encounter that motivated her to be a proponent of change and improvement at her hospital. Her 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 11, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Trainee Perspective bedside learning clinical care patient care quality improvement Source Type: blogs
What ’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine
Conclusions
These findings suggest that faculty developer competence is best understood as a situated construct. A faculty developer’s ability to attune to, construct, and negotiate her environment can both enhance and minimize the impact of contextual variables as needed. Thus, faculty developers do not passively experience context; rather, they actively interact with their environment in ways that maximize their performance. Faculty developers should be trained for the adaptive, situated use of knowledge. (Source: Academic Medicine Blog)
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 3, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Issue Preview communication skills faculty development medical education medical student wellness residency match social media Source Type: blogs
