Clarivate Analytics released its 2019 Journal Impact Factors (JIFs), and Academic Medicine earned a JIF of 5.354. It places us at the top of the Education, Scientific Disciplines category for the fifth year in a row. It also places us third in the Health Care Sciences & Services category. In addition to having the top JIF in …
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I joined Twitter to teach. In May 2016, I started tweeting “questions of the day” for my inpatient hospital medicine team at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital from @RJmdphilly. #GreenQOD (“Green” is our teaching service, and “QOD” for question of the day) was born in the days of only 140 characters per tweet (now expanded to …
Academic Medicine is seeking applications for an associate editor to join the editorial team of the journal. The new associate editor will work closely with the editor-in-chief, associate editors, and the editorial staff in evaluating manuscripts, making publication decisions, engaging with authors, and participating in the processes of the journal as it continues to evolve to better …
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On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and associate editor Dr. Colin West (@ColinWestMDPhD) and guest Dr. Jonathan Ripp discuss the state of clinician well-being during COVID-19 and how it's similar or different to what we’ve seen before. Dr. Ripp talks about what he and his colleagues at Mount Sinai are doing to identify …
I was a member of the third class of the Penn State University-Jefferson University 5-year accelerated BS-MD program and graduated in 1970. I feel very fortunate to have participated in this program. Missing 3 years of formal schooling and the resulting financial savings were extremely worthwhile. There were no special activities at Penn State for …
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On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and assistant editor for trainee engagement Dr. Jesse Burk Rafel (@jbrafel) and guest Dr. Lotte Dyrbye (@dyrbye) discuss burnout in medical students and residents, including new recommendations from the National Academies about systems-level changes to foster well-being in learners. This episode is now available through iTunes and the Apple …
I graduated from the Penn State University/Thomas Jefferson University premedical-medical program (i.e., their accelerated BS-MD program) in 2004, as a 6-year programmer (colloquially known as a Prog). I matched at Jefferson for my emergency medicine residency, serving as chief resident in my senior year. July 2020 will mark the start of my fourteenth year as …
The End of Nonadherence Improving patient adherence has been a decades-long priority for nearly every health care stakeholder1—except for patients. It is well known that poor medication adherence is responsible for both avoidable spending and avoidable poor health outcomes—yet there have not been adherence marches in the streets demanding that people take their medication as …
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When the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States just 3 short months ago, perhaps few would have predicted the profound effects we are now experiencing throughout our society. One thing, however, was always certain: those who care for patients, teach, learn, and conduct research at academic health centers would find themselves …
On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and editor-in-chief Dr. Laura Roberts (@_Roberts_Laura) and guest Dr. Alison Whelan (@AlisonWhelanMD) discuss how academic medicine is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact the crisis has had on the many mission areas of the field. They also discuss how the pandemic is affecting health professionals …
