To celebrate Academic Medicine’s recently redesigned cover with greater space to showcase art from the academic medicine community, we have launched our first call for the Cover Art feature! Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of experts in art and medicine, including artist Maria Hupfield (https://mariahupfield.wordpress.com/), Academic Medicine Assistant Editor Dr. Arno Kumagai, and …
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As I entered my final year of training and saw dozens of colleagues go through a professional development plateau, I wanted to be proactive in approaching my transition to a faculty role. That’s where my Educator’s Portfolio (EP) (compared to a traditional curriculum vitae (CV) in an Academic Medicine Last Page I coauthored) came into …
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On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and assistant editor Dr. Will Bynum (@WillBynumMD) and guests Drs. Mike Kemp, Samantha Rivard (@rivardsj), and Joceline Vu (@jocelinevu) discuss the clinical learning environment and resident well-being during COVID-19. They describe efforts by the University of Michigan Department of Surgery to support trainee wellness during COVID and …
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Writing medical education scholarship for publication is a rewarding opportunity for clinician-educators. However, it can also be challenging to know the proper format or steps needed to take curricular changes to the next level. To supplement our Academic Medicine Last Page, “Propelling Educational Innovations to Publication in Five steps,” my coauthors have provided practical guidance, …
What is the opposite of loneliness? According to student-author Marina Keegan,1 there is no single word in the English dictionary to describe this feeling. And yet, it is the way that I, a fourth-year medical student, have felt since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In mid-March 2020, medical students were pulled virtually overnight from …
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As one of us (R.S.) wrote in a recent Academic Medicine commentary, structural racism is pervasive in academic medicine, and institutions need to take bold action. Schools must implement comprehensive anti-racist policies and practices across all lines, from curricular reform, to promotion of diversity and inclusion at all levels, to building systems of accountability. Such …
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In our Academic Medicine article,1 we discuss how medical curricula perpetuate inequity by describing racial differences as matters of scientific fact. As medical students, we have seen lectures demonstrating biological differences rooted in race—a social construct—including that Black people have increased risk for developing glaucoma.1 We have seen race used in medical curricula to teach …
Continue reading To Improve Medical Education, We Must First Confront Our Field’s History
On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee chair Dr. Zareen Zaidi talk to guests Drs. Justin Bullock and Joseph Mpalirwa about their research on the experiences of underrepresented medical students and physicians in the United States and Canada. This is the final episode in a 3-part series …
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On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee member Dr. Daniel Schumacher talk to guests Drs. Hanin Rashid, Kristen Coppola, and Robert Lebeau about their scoping review of the literature related to the USMLE Step exams and what their findings could mean for medical students, the medical school …
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On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee member Dr. Justin Sewell and guest Dr. Jonathan Ilgen discuss how physicians navigate uncertain clinical situations and their comfort with that process. This is the first episode in a 3-part series of discussions with RIME authors about their medical education …
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