Ensuring Equal Access and Appropriate Remediation: Evaluating Struggling Students With Disabilities
Author’s Note: This blog post uses person-first (students with a disability) and identity-first (disabled student) language to honor and acknowledge the contrasted preferences of persons with disabilities. As enthusiastic supporters of disability inclusion in medicine, it can be disheartening when we witness disabled students struggle. Regrettably, faculty are almost never taught how to appropriately approach remediation for students with disabilities. Traditional methods of remediation alone are insufficient, leading to inappropriate student failure, potential dismissal, or failure to fail for fear of legal repercuss...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 20, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective disabilities equity evaluation remediation Source Type: blogs

Voter Mobilization: A Powerful Tool for Health Equity
As voiced by the late Congressman John Lewis, “The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have to make change in a democratic society.” For health care professionals, it is also a powerful tool for helping our patients and their families make change in their communities. Together, we must empower our colleagues and patients to vote. Voting and health are inherently linked, as discussed by Gordon in his 2016 Academic Medicine article, “How Can Physicians Educate Patients About Health Care Policy Issues?” In this article, Gordon notes how voting is our primary means of selecting the government leaders whose ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 6, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective health equity patients voter moblization Source Type: blogs

Hold the Phone: The Importance of Telehealth Curricula in Medical Education
Re-entering clinical rotations amidst the COVID pandemic introduces a host of uncertainties for medical students. Chief among them, navigating the unknown frontier of telemedicine. Medical education prepares medical students extremely well for taking a history, observing the patient, and completing a physical exam when the patient is present. However, after a COVID-related hiatus, I learned that my first rotation back would be a combination of in-person and telemedicine pediatric encounters. As a medical student, I have been taught the importance of a complete and thorough physical exam to test my diagnoses. When I thou...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 29, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective COVID-19 curriculum telehealth telemedicine Source Type: blogs

Addressing Race and Racism in Medical Education
On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and assistant editor Dr. Dorene Balmer (@dorenebalmer) and guests medical students Bri Christophers (@BriChristophers) and Naomi Nkinsi (@NNkinsi) discuss how race is portrayed in medical education and what individuals and institutions should do to address racism in the curriculum and learning environment.  This episode is now available through the Apple Podcasts app and wherever else you get your podcasts. Read the article discussed in this episode, “Changing How Race Is Portrayed in Medical Education: Recommendations From Medical Students,” at academicmedi...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 15, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Trainee Perspective Academic Medicine podcast curriculum learning environment medical school race portrayal racism Source Type: blogs

Addressing Race and Racism in Medical Education
On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and assistant editor Dr. Dorene Balmer (@dorenebalmer) and guests medical students Bri Christophers (@BriChristophers) and Naomi Nkinsi (@NNkinsi) discuss how race is portrayed in medical education and what individuals and institutions should do to address racism in the curriculum and learning environment.  This episode is now available through the Apple Podcasts app and wherever else you get your podcasts. Read the article discussed in this episode, “Changing How Race Is Portrayed in Medical Education: Recommendations From Medical Students,” at academicmedi...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 15, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Trainee Perspective Academic Medicine podcast curriculum learning environment medical school race portrayal racism Source Type: blogs

New Collection of Articles on Addressing Race and Racism in Medical Education
Academic Medicine is committed to assisting medical schools and teaching hospitals, their faculty and trainees, and the public in learning more about complex issues and strategies to acknowledge, repair, and transcend racism to make academic medicine not only more inclusive and diverse but also more focused on a vision of human mutuality. To this end, a collection of previously published Academic Medicine articles has been posted on the journal’s website. The collection was curated by us: assistant editors, Dr. Dorene Balmer and Dr. Irene Alexandraki, with the assistance of Toni Gallo (staff editor) and Dr. Kristin Malet...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 1, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Academic Medicine medical education race racism Source Type: blogs

Gender Segregation by Specialty in Medicine
In 2017, for the first time, more than half of medical school matriculants in the U.S. were women. And in 2019, nearly half of new faculty hires across academic medicine were women. At the same time, some specialties have a much higher or lower proportion of women faculty and residents. On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and associate editor Dr. John Coverdale and guests Drs. Elaine Pelley (@ElainePelley) and Molly Carnes (@Molly_Carnes) discuss gender segregation by specialty in medicine, what it looks like, how it came about, and the implications for women and the field of medicine.  This episode i...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 18, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Guest Perspective Academic Medicine podcast specialty women in medicine workforce Source Type: blogs

Gender Segregation by Specialty in Medicine
In 2017, for the first time, more than half of medical school matriculants in the U.S. were women. And in 2019, nearly half of new faculty hires across academic medicine were women. At the same time, some specialties have a much higher or lower proportion of women faculty and residents. On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and associate editor Dr. John Coverdale and guests Drs. Elaine Pelley (@ElainePelley) and Molly Carnes (@Molly_Carnes) discuss gender segregation by specialty in medicine, what it looks like, how it came about, and the implications for women and the field of medicine.  This episode i...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 18, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Guest Perspective Academic Medicine podcast specialty women in medicine workforce Source Type: blogs

Academic Medicine Call for an Assistant Editor for Trainee Engagement
Academic Medicine is seeking trainee applicants for the role of Assistant Editor for Trainee Engagement (AETE). Created as part of the Advancing Trainees as Leaders and Scholars (ATLAS) initiative, the AETE works closely with the journal’s editor-in-chief and editorial staff to develop resources and complementary content for and by trainees. Key Duties The AETE will lead the ATLAS initiative, working with the editorial staff on projects and events to foster trainee engagement (e.g., annual call for trainee-authored letters to the editor, Twitter chats, author and reviewer resources). In addition, the AETE will assi...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 10, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Academic Medicine ATLAS call for editors new position trainee engagement Source Type: blogs

Academic Medicine Call for an Assistant Editor for Trainee Engagement
Academic Medicine is seeking trainee applicants for the role of Assistant Editor for Trainee Engagement (AETE). Created as part of the Advancing Trainees as Leaders and Scholars (ATLAS) initiative, the AETE works closely with the journal’s editor-in-chief and editorial staff to develop resources and complementary content for and by trainees. Key Duties The AETE will lead the ATLAS initiative, working with the editorial staff on projects and events to foster trainee engagement (e.g., annual call for trainee-authored letters to the editor, Twitter chats, author and reviewer resources). In addition, the AETE will assi...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 10, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Academic Medicine ATLAS call for editors new position trainee engagement Source Type: blogs

The Management Script in Action: Putting a Practical Tool to Work
In our recent Academic Medicine Perspective, we proposed the term “management script” as a concept for teaching management reasoning. Analogous to the illness script, an essential component of diagnostic reasoning, management scripts are high-level, precompiled, conceptual knowledge structures of the courses of action that a clinician might undertake to address a patient’s health care problem(s). Not to be confused with a checklist, where specific interventions are mandated in a sequence, management scripts are more like a menu: a collection of options in various categories (e.g., appetizers, courses, des...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 4, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured care management decisions clinical decision making residency training residents Source Type: blogs