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“I need you to forgive yourself”: Shame in Medicine and Medical Education

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Joining the Academic Medicine Podcast to discuss shame in medicine and medical education and their research and other work in this area are Will Bynum (@WillBynumMD), Lara Varpio (@LaraVarpio), and Ashley Adams (@AshleyAdamsMD). This episode is now available through iTunes and the Apple Podcast app, Spotify, GooglePlay, Stitcher, and SoundCloud. Read more about these topics, including the articles discussed in this …

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How Medical Educators Can Manage Students’ Professionalism Lapses in Three Clear Steps

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When I became a medical educator, I experienced attending to medical students’ professionalism lapses as a demanding and time-consuming task. I had never been taught how to respond to these lapses, and the literature did not provide clear guidelines. To find out how colleagues in the medical education field handled this issue, my colleagues and …

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Advancing Trainee Leaders and Scholars (ATLAS): A New Initiative From Academic Medicine

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Academic Medicine recently launched the Advancing Trainee Leaders and Scholars (ATLAS) initiative, which I will oversee as the journal’s inaugural Assistant Editor for Trainee Engagement. So, you might be wondering, who am I and why ATLAS? I hope this blog post will help answer those questions! Who am I? I’m a 3rd-year internal medicine resident …

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A Conversation with Darrell Kirch

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Darrell Kirch, MD, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges (@AAMCtoday), joins the Academic Medicine Podcast to discuss his work at the AAMC and as part of the Coalition for Physician Accountability; important issues in medical education today including physician well-being, competency-based medical education, and GME selection and training; and the future …

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When DACA Recipients Seek to Match: Some Tips from the Trenches

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As the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine has been something of a flagship institution for the movement to enable qualified recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to matriculate into medical school, we are increasingly being asked for tips for DACA recipients applying to residency. We sent our first five …

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A New Norm: The Amplified Stress of Applying to Residency

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“Promise me you’ll stay near the computer until I’m done, in case I get another invite today!” My Ob-Gyn residency interview started in 10 minutes. I should have been mentally preparing; instead, I was going over instructions with my mom (again) for watching for other residency interview invitations. My mom kept her promise, but there …

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To Pull Back the Curtain on Shame in Medical Education, I Had to Start With Myself

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The moment I made the error—an unfathomable vaginal laceration caused by my hands during the vacuum-assisted delivery—it felt as if a massive floodlight, centered right over my head, descended on me. All eyes in the room, aghast at my error and its outcome, bore straight through me. A rush of anxiety and fear flushed down …

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The Med in Social Media: The Role Twitter Can Play in the Medical Student Toolkit

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Medical school is a melting pot of passions and intellect. Therefore, I was surprised when it was here that I felt, for the first time, alone in my interests. I had fallen in love with the idea of using social media as a health care tool for both patients and providers. However, this concept is …

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GridlockED: A Serious Game for Teaching About Multipatient Environments

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Photo courtesy of Thomas Owen and Teresa Chan. “Emergency department gridlock is in effect.” I used to hear this nearly every day as a clinical clerk, but at first, I had no idea what it really meant. Clinical training starts with an emphasis on the individual patient, as you explore one case at a time …

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Advice from a Master Peer Reviewer

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Discussing the peer review process, specifically the practice of evaluating a scholarly article as a peer reviewer, in this new episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast are editor-in-chief David Sklar and senior staff editor Toni Gallo and Carl Stevens, a master reviewer for the journal and a seven-time winner of the Academic Medicine Excellence in …

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