By: Bruce H. Campbell, MD, professor of otolaryngology and faculty member, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dr. Campbell blogs at Reflections in a Head Mirror. Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted. -Jules Renard Several years ago, a senior medical student was struggling with …
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When we review and ultimately select articles for publication in Academic Medicine, we always hope that they will influence how we think about an important issue and perhaps improve our thinking in a useful and meaningful way. One of the ways that we gauge the value of our articles is by the number of citations …
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Editor’s Note: This post is the second of two on the topic of competency-based medical education. Read the first post here. By: Robert Englander, MD, MPH, Terri Cameron, MA, Amy Addams, Jan Bull, MP, and Joshua Jacobs, MD Dr. Englander is the former senior director of competency-based learning and assessment at the Association of American …
Editor’s Note: This post is the first of two on the topic of competency-based medical education. Read the second post here. By: Robert Englander, MD, MPH, Terri Cameron, MA, Amy Addams, Jan Bull, MP, and Joshua Jacobs, MD Dr. Englander is the former senior director of competency-based learning and assessment at the Association of American …
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Editor's Note: Check out our June issue, which is devoted entirely to professional identity formation. By: Hedy S. Wald, PhD, clinical associate professor of family medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University I enter the room at the medical school on my Family Medicine Clerkship teaching day. I co-facilitate small group collaborative reflection based …
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By: Harris Eyre, MBBS, Visiting Australian Fulbright Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles, and Global Ties Fellow The commentary by Dr. Des Gorman¹ provides an exciting health care intelligence model for the 21st century—a method to negate the characteristic health workforce “feast or famine” cycle, which occurs all too often in workforce planning. This method …
By: Jennifer Y. Wang, a senior medical student at the Stanford School of Medicine It’s not entirely clear when I decided to affix the dreaded “premed” label upon myself. As a freshman at Stanford University eight years ago, I was also considering the possibilities of becoming a computer scientist or a biomedical researcher or engineer. …
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By: Jessica Early, a nurse practitioner fellow at the West Haven Veterans Affairs Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education (CoEPCE) During my time in nursing school, the constant refrain was that interprofessional teamwork is the foundation of patient-centered care. In lectures and seminars, we were told that, as nurse practitioners (NPs), our effectiveness depended on collaboration with all …
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By: Marie Caulfield, PhD, manager of data operations and services, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC Last year my daughter was admitted to a teaching hospital with a kidney infection. The medical student and residents on her treatment team recommended an MRI to rule out a possible anatomical cause. Dr. R., the attending physician, …
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By: Vera P. Luther, MD, assistant professor, Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases, Wake Forest University School of Medicine My family has a tradition of working together on jigsaw puzzles during holidays and summer vacations. It’s a fun activity that involves teamwork. We enjoy the discovery of interesting shapes and making connections between pieces and groups, …
