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, …
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The Opposite of Loneliness: Medical Student Mobilization During COVID-19
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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Dismantling Structural Racism: Time to Abandon Medical School Rankings
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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To Improve Medical Education, We Must First Confront Our Field’s History
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 …
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Underrepresented Students’ and Physicians’ Experiences in Medicine
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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A Review of the Literature Related to the USMLE
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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How Physicians Navigate Uncertainty in Clinical Situations
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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From 5 Questions to 5 Reflections: A Residency Leadership “Sign-Out” During COVID-19—Part 2
Editor’s note: This is the second of a 2-part blog post. Read the first part of this blog post, with an introduction and the first 3 reflections, here. 4. A crisis reveals the flaws of how we assign value. Scholarly output is an important part of what we do in academic medicine. We balance the …
From 5 Questions to 5 Reflections: A Residency Leadership “Sign-Out” During COVID-19—Part 1
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part blog post. Read the second part of this blog post, with the final 2 reflections, here. As a chief resident and program director in our internal medicine residency program, we set out at the end of academic year 2019–2020 to prepare the annual sign-out for the incoming …
Supporting and Advancing Women in Medicine: Advice from the Academic Medicine Editorial Team
The October issue includes a collection of articles on women in medicine, including one with advice from Dr. Cathy DeAngelis derived from her 5 decades in academic medicine. In a new episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast out now, women members of the journal's editorial team share their own advice for supporting and advancing women …