Creation of a Human Factors Board to Support Well-Being in General Surgery Residents
Problem
Demands placed on resident physicians can make it difficult to keep up with personal needs, often affecting well-being. For military pilots, confidential and nonpunitive human factors boards (HFBs) identify pilots’ human factors (personal or professional problems that might interfere with the ability to perform effectively) and make recommendations for support. The authors sought to determine the feasibility of establishing an HFB for resident physicians and its utility for general surgery residents.
Approach
Publicly available information on HFBs was reviewed and translated to the structure of a gener...
Source: Academic Medicine - November 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Innovation Reports Source Type: research
Artist’s Statement: I Miss All Your Beautiful Faces, Portrait #4
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Source: Academic Medicine - November 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Cover Art Source Type: research
Identifying Student Mistreatment Through Peer-Facilitated Learning Environment Sessions
Problem
Data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Medical School Graduation Questionnaire (GQ) show persistent high rates of medical student mistreatment, and multiple barriers to student reporting of mistreatment exist. The authors examined whether learning environment sessions (LESs) allow students opportunities to identify and describe patterns of mistreatment missed by other avenues of reporting.
Approach
Peer-facilitated LESs were instituted in 2018–2019 at Boston University School of Medicine. The LESs were scheduled once during every third-year core clerkship block. Third- and fourth...
Source: Academic Medicine - November 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Innovation Reports Source Type: research
2022 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest: Second-Place Medical Student Essay: Every Patient After
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Source: Academic Medicine - November 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Gold Foundation Essays Source Type: research
2022 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest: Second-Place Nursing Student Essay: A Song for the Dying
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Source: Academic Medicine - November 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Gold Foundation Essays Source Type: research
Commentary on “Facial Makeup, June 2006, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang Province”
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Source: Academic Medicine - November 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Medicine and the Arts Source Type: research
Facial Makeup, June 2006, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang Province
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Source: Academic Medicine - November 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Medicine and the Arts Source Type: research
Commentary on The Shape of Water
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Source: Academic Medicine - November 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Medicine and the Arts Source Type: research
The Shape of Water
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Source: Academic Medicine - November 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Medicine and the Arts Source Type: research
The Development of a Comprehensive Mental Health Service for Medical Trainees
Mental distress in medical learners and its consequent harmful effects on personal and professional functioning, a well-documented concern, draws attention to the need for solutions. The authors review the development of a comprehensive mental health service within a large and complex academic medical education system, created with special attention to offering equitable, accessible, and responsive care to all trainees. From the inception of the service in January 2017, the authors placed particular emphasis on eliminating obstacles to learners’ willingness and ability to access care, including concerns related to cost, ...
Source: Academic Medicine - November 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Expanding Underrepresented in Medicine to Include Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Individuals
In 2003, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) stopped using the term “underrepresented minority” and instead adopted “underrepresented in medicine.” This was not the first time the AAMC revised this definition. In this article, the authors call on the AAMC to revise and expand this definition to include another group that is underrepresented in medicine: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals. It is difficult to know whether LGBTQ populations are underrepresented in medicine; however, the data that do exist suggest a significant lack of LGBTQ representation in medicine. It...
Source: Academic Medicine - November 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Scholarly Perspectives Source Type: research
LGBTQ+ Worker Protections: Implications for Academic Medicine Today and in the Future
The Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling prohibiting workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity (Bostock v Clayton County) offers new legal protections for LGBTQ+ employees and allies and new opportunities for academic medicine to advance LGBTQ+ inclusion at their institutions. In this perspective piece, the authors examine the history of LGBTQ+ community recognition, tolerance, protections, and ongoing inclusion and the advocacy efforts led by LGBTQ+ patients, community activists, and medical colleagues. They also examine the current limitations of the court’s ruling and recommend future actions to...
Source: Academic Medicine - November 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Scholarly Perspectives Source Type: research
Beyond Training the Next Generation of Physicians: The Unmeasured Value Added by Residents to Teaching Hospitals and Communities
Following medical school, most newly graduated physicians enter residency training. This period of graduate medical education (GME) is critical to creating a physician workforce with the specialized skills needed to care for the population. Completing GME training is also a requirement for obtaining medical licensure in all 50 states. Yet, crucial federal and state funding for GME is capped, creating a bottleneck in training an adequate physician workforce to meet future patient care needs. Thus, additional GME funding is needed to train more physicians. (Source: Academic Medicine)
Source: Academic Medicine - November 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Scholarly Perspectives Source Type: research
Lasting Solutions for Advancement of Women of Color
Despite efforts to improve parity in the biomedical workforce, gender bias persists related to equitable pay, promotion, speaking opportunities, journal editorial positions, research funding, and leadership positions. This bias becomes more prominent for women of color and women with other intersectional identities who come from underrepresented groups. It is critical to understand the barriers that women face and why the pathway is especially challenging for women of color. In this commentary, the authors cite research related to the effects of institutional gender bias in academic medicine, including research on bias aga...
Source: Academic Medicine - November 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Invited Commentaries Source Type: research
The Future of Endowed Chairs in Academic Medicine
As the landscape of philanthropy changes following the COVID-19 pandemic, this commentary considers the future of endowed chairs in academic medicine in the light of articles by Thorndyke and colleagues and by Chin-Hong and colleagues in this issue. The authors evaluate the traditional allocation of endowed chairs, which can attract and retain talented faculty and can support focused research far into the future, while other gifts may support more timely concerns, but over a shorter term. The authors weigh the benefits and challenges of allocation of endowed chairs, such as the need to improve representation, diversity, eq...
Source: Academic Medicine - November 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Invited Commentaries Source Type: research
