Reflect and Reset: Black Academic Voices Call the Graduate Medical Education Community to Action
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the great achievements that the biomedical community can accomplish, but raised the question: Can the same medical community that developed a complex vaccine in less than a year during a pandemic help to defeat social injustice and ameliorate the epidemic of health inequity? In this article, the authors, a group of Black academics, call on the graduate medical education (GME) community to reset its trajectory toward solutions for achieving diversity, improving inclusion, and combating racism using education as the new vector. Sponsoring institutions, which include universities, academic me...
Source: Academic Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Scholarly Perspective Source Type: research
Promoting Female Leadership in Academic Surgery: Disrupting Systemic Gender Bias
Gender bias is a pervasive issue in academic surgery and is characterized by familiar patterns previously described in the business world. In this article, the authors illuminate gender bias patterns in academic surgery identified in prior in-depth interviews with female surgical department chairs across the United States. (Source: Academic Medicine)
Source: Academic Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Scholarly Perspective Source Type: research
Supporting Physician Pregnancy: What Is Taking So Long?
Challenges persist for female physicians and physicians in training who desire to have children. A scoping review in this issue of Academic Medicine identifies 4 major themes that have evolved over time and have surged in numbers as more women have entered the medical profession and as the sociopolitical environment has progressed: the impact of pregnancy on the physician and her colleagues, pregnant physician work productivity, physician maternity leave policies, and physician maternal–fetal health outcomes. The persistence of themes over time should compel the medical profession and society to address the challenges th...
Source: Academic Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Invited Commentaries Source Type: research
Delivering Better Solutions for Women Physicians Who Experience Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Childrearing
As the number of women physicians entering the field of medicine has increased over the past decades, pregnancy and maternity leave are becoming common place during both training and independent practice. However, the current system is not designed for extended leaves of absence from the clinical environment. In this commentary, the authors review recent changes in regulatory requirements impacting women physicians in postgraduate training who experience pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing and identify solutions that may result in more optimal work environments for women physicians in practice who experience pregnancy,...
Source: Academic Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Invited Commentaries Source Type: research
Call to Action: How to Create Change as a Medical Student
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Source: Academic Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor Source Type: research
From Training to Transformation: The Role of Teamwork in System-Level Change
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Source: Academic Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor Source Type: research
To Err in Medicine: A Trainee-Centered Approach to Medical Mistakes
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Source: Academic Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor Source Type: research
A Seat at the Table
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Source: Academic Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor Source Type: research
Radically Changing Medical Student Mental Health Programming
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Source: Academic Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor Source Type: research
Peer Wellness Coaches as Agents of Cultural Change in Academic Medical Research
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Source: Academic Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor Source Type: research
The Wellness Ambassador Program: A Student-Led Initiative to Promote Wellness and Connection Among Trainees During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Source: Academic Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor Source Type: research
Addressing Housing Injustice: Why We Must Work Outside of the Medical Silo to Create Change Within
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Source: Academic Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor Source Type: research
Addressing a National Health Crisis: A Student-Run Congestive Heart Failure Clinic for Underserved Patients
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Source: Academic Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor Source Type: research
Improving Family-Building Support and Fertility Care Access
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Source: Academic Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor Source Type: research
Using Global Health Lessons to Sustain Medical Student Activism Beyond COVID-19
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Source: Academic Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor Source Type: research
