On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, Jessica Chambers, MD, MPH, Alex Rittenberg, MD, and John George, MD, discuss the unique role of the nocturnist, or the night shift clinician, in academic medicine. They offer opportunities for pursuing scholarship related to night medicine and challenges to doing so as a nocturnist. And they emphasize …
Continue reading Scholarship at Night: Building a Successful Career as an Academic Nocturnist
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation holds an annual essay contest to encourage medical and nursing students to reflect on their experiences and engage in narrative writing. For the 2025 contest, students were asked to use the following quote as inspiration to illuminate how the human connection can make a meaningful difference in care. Of all …
Continue reading Winners of the 2025 Dr. Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, discussing Academic Medicine’s and MedEdPORTAL’s new policy guiding the use of AI tools in the peer review process are Academic Medicine editor-in-chief Laura Roberts, MD, MA, MedEdPORTAL editor-in-chief Lauren Maggio, PhD, MS(LIS), Academic Medicine associate editor Krisztina Fischer, MD, PhD, MMSc, and AAMC director of journals Mary …
The AM Last Page (LP) is a valued feature of our journal Academic Medicine. LPs are designed to make the journal’s content more accessible to more people by promoting a general understanding of important issues that affect learners and faculty, medical schools and teaching hospitals. LPs do this by succinctly telling a visual story through images or figures and complementary text of …
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, author Hannah Kakara Anderson, PhD, MBA, Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee member Binbin Zheng, PhD, MEd, and AAMC MedEdSCHOLAR Nicole Findlay, MD, MPH, discuss new research into how the physical and social context of the clinical learning environment shape power dynamics and influence equity in assessment …
*Submission site: https://www.abstractscorecard.com/cfp/submit/login.asp?EventKey=TTHPRFNJ* Editor’s Note: Please stay tuned for the submission link to the Cadmium submission platform, which will be added here prior to the call launch. (Please do NOT submit your Cover Art through Editorial Manager via the Academic Medicine website.) Academic Medicine’s 2026 call for submissions for the Cover Art feature will launch on …
Continue reading Call for Cover Art: Open January 12 to March 16, 2026
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, author Emily Carroll, MD, MEHP, Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee member Gary Beck Dallaghan, PhD, and AAMC MedEdSCHOLAR Kiani Gardner, PhD, discuss how medical student parents navigate their dual identities as physicians-in-training and parents and how medical schools can foster an inclusive learning environment for these …
Continue reading Transitioning Identities: The Dual Identities of Medical Student Parents
THE CALL IS NOW CLOSED. Thank you to everyone who submitted an application for consideration! As of November 25, 2025, we are no longer accepting applications. We plan to reopen the call in the future, so please continue to check back if you are interesting in applying. Academic Medicine is welcoming applications to expand the journal’s …
Continue reading CLOSED – Academic Medicine Call for Associate Editor Applications
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, discussing a new study that explores medical student learning during interprofessional interactions in clinical clerkships are author Kelsey Miller, MD, EdM, Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee member Bonny Dickinson, PhD, MS-HPEd, and AAMC MedEdSCHOLAR Kelvin Pollard, MD. They explore the “lore” about working with other health …
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, artists Rachel Mindrup, MFA, and Tuyet-Minh Tran, MD, discuss their artwork that has been featured on the cover of Academic Medicine. They explore the inspiration and creative process behind their pieces and how medicine has influenced their art and how art has influenced how they experience medicine. …
Continue reading Incorporating Art into Medical Education: The Artists’ Perspective
