Commentary on “Between Going and Staying”
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Source: Academic Medicine - June 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Medicine and the Arts Source Type: research
Artist’s Statement: The Doctor Will See You Now
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Source: Academic Medicine - June 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Cover Art Source Type: research
Crossing the Virtual Chasm: Practical Considerations for Rethinking Curriculum, Competency, and Culture in the Virtual Care Era
Virtual care, introduced previously as a replacement for in-person visits, is now being integrated into clinical care delivery models to complement in-person visits. The COVID-19 pandemic sped up this process. The rapid uptake of virtual care at the start of the pandemic prevented educators from taking deliberate steps to design the foundational elements of the related learning environment, including workflow, competencies, and assessment methods. Educators must now pursue an informed and purposeful approach to design a curriculum and implement virtual care in the learning environment. Engaging learners in virtual care off...
Source: Academic Medicine - June 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Defining Student-as-Teacher Curricula in the Absence of National Guidelines: An Innovative Model
Teaching is a critical skill in the medical profession, yet has only recently gained recognition as a core skill for medical students and trainees. Student-as-teacher (SAT) programs provide medical students formal teaching instruction with opportunities for practice. While efforts to determine how SAT courses should be taught are ongoing, the authors’ review of SAT programs in medical schools’ curricula shows they are diverse and often developed by faculty and trainees who advocate for formal teacher training at their institutions, rather than by medical school leadership. Consequently, there is significant heterogenei...
Source: Academic Medicine - June 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Scholarly Perspectives Source Type: research
Bearing Witness
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Source: Academic Medicine - June 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Teaching and Learning Moments Source Type: research
Student-Run Free Clinics Stand at a Critical Junction Between Undergraduate Medical Education, Clinical Care, and Advocacy
Student-run free clinics (SRFCs) act as primary care providers that bring health care to populations in need and are an important source of undergraduate medical education (UME), guiding trainees through the art of history taking and physical examination. However, they are also social justice and advocacy initiatives—addressing disparity in access to care and educating medical trainees with firsthand exposure to socioeconomic determinants of health as well as language and medical illiteracy barriers. Here, the authors review academic literature examining the impact of SRFCs in their 3 roles: as medical care providers, as...
Source: Academic Medicine - June 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Scholarly Perspectives Source Type: research
Empowering Student Antiracist Work to Overcome Inertia in Academic Health Centers
The national struggles for social justice that have dominated headlines since 2020 are reflected in the challenges academic health centers are confronting as they strive to become more antiracist. One of the largest challenges for these institutions may be the inertia of the status quo. While faculty may have become accustomed to a status quo that perpetuates inequity, students provide perspectives that can disrupt this inertia and lead to positive change. Students, however, face barriers to antiracist work, including power gradients (i.e., different amounts of power people possess according to their position in a hierarch...
Source: Academic Medicine - June 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Scholarly Perspectives Source Type: research
COVID-19 and Latinx Disparities: Highlighting the Need for Medical Schools to Consider Accepting DACA Recipients
This article argues that all medical schools should take steps to consider accepting DACA recipient applicants in line with the principles of health equity and suggests 5 recommendations for medical school admissions, support, and advocacy practices. (Source: Academic Medicine)
Source: Academic Medicine - June 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Scholarly Perspectives Source Type: research
Deconstructing Racism, Hierarchy, and Power in Medical Education: Guiding Principles on Inclusive Curriculum Design
In the context of current U.S. racial justice movements, analysis of racism in medicine within medical education is a critical task for all institutions. To educate the next generation of physicians about racism in medicine and out of concern that the curriculum required critical assessment and change, a group of students and faculty at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) initiated a longitudinal curricular analysis through a vertical integration group, commissioned by the Medical Education Committee, from May 2019 to June 2020. The curriculum analysis and the major outcomes and guiding principles that emerged from...
Source: Academic Medicine - June 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Scholarly Perspectives Source Type: research
The Model Minority Myth, Data Aggregation, and the Role of Medical Schools in Combating Anti-Asian Sentiment
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an alarming increase in hate incidents directed toward Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs), including verbal harassment and physical assault, spurring the nationwide #StopAsianHate movement. This rise in anti-Asian sentiment is occurring at a critical time of racial reckoning across the United States, galvanized by the Black Lives Matter movement, and of medical student calls for the implementation of antiracist medical curricula. AAPIs are stereotyped by the model minority myth, which posits that AAPIs are educated, hardworking, and therefore able to achieve high levels of s...
Source: Academic Medicine - June 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Scholarly Perspectives Source Type: research
Six Principles for Developing Leadership Training Ecosystems in Health Care
Leadership education in medicine is evolving to better meet the challenges of health care complexity, interprofessional practice, and threats from viruses and budget cuts alike. In this commentary, the authors build upon the findings of a scoping review by Matsas and colleagues, published in the same issue, and ask us to imagine what a learning ecosystem around leadership might look like. They subsequently engage in their own synthesis of leadership development literature and propose 6 key principles for medical educators and health care leaders to consider when designing leadership development within their educational eco...
Source: Academic Medicine - June 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Invited Commentaries Source Type: research
Moving Beyond Implicit Bias in Antiracist Academic Medicine Initiatives
The concept of implicit bias has arguably laid the groundwork for uncomfortable discussions surrounding race in academic medicine, but its effectiveness in changing racist behavior and systems remains unclear. Terms like implicit bias, while perhaps more palatable than other concepts to some, may result in confusion and divert time from meaningful reconceptualization and creation of effective antiracism initiatives. This Invited Commentary contends that the term implicit bias is inadequate for addressing racism because it is too broad; does not necessarily lead to a change in racist behaviors; assumes that racism is uncons...
Source: Academic Medicine - June 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Invited Commentaries Source Type: research
Prioritizing Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. Health Equity Agenda
Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) populations are growing rapidly in the United States, yet AANHPIs remain understudied, overlooked, and misunderstood. During the COVID-19 pandemic, themes from the tragic history of anti-Asian bias and marginalization have resurfaced in a surge of renewed bigotry and xenophobic violence against AANHPIs. In this commentary, the authors discuss the role of medical schools in combating anti-Asian sentiment as an important step toward achieving health equity. Based on their collective expertise in health disparities research, medical education, and policy, they off...
Source: Academic Medicine - June 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Invited Commentaries Source Type: research
Ann’s Final Gift
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Source: Academic Medicine - June 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Teaching and Learning Moments Source Type: research
Student-Led Initiatives and Advocacy in Academic Medicine: Empowering the Leaders of Tomorrow
Trainees’ value as effective leaders within academic medicine has been increasingly recognized. From their perspective as adult learners who enter medical education from diverse backgrounds, trainees offer significant value to the teaching, learning, and practice of medicine. As such, trainees have developed and led various successful initiatives throughout academic medicine. In this Invited Commentary, 2 medical students with national leadership roles provide their perspectives on how student-led initiatives and advocacy can help push academic medicine forward. The authors first provide an overview of the success of stu...
Source: Academic Medicine - June 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Invited Commentaries Source Type: research
