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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Author’s Note: This blog post uses person-first (students with a disability) and identity-first (disabled student) language to honor and acknowledge the contrasted preferences of persons with disabilities. As enthusiastic supporters of disability inclusion in medicine, it can be disheartening when we witness disabled students struggle. Regrettably, faculty are almost never taught how to appropriately approach …
As voiced by the late Congressman John Lewis, “The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have to make change in a democratic society.” For health care professionals, it is also a powerful tool for helping our patients and their families make change in their communities. Together, we must empower our colleagues and patients …
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Re-entering clinical rotations amidst the COVID pandemic introduces a host of uncertainties for medical students. Chief among them, navigating the unknown frontier of telemedicine. Medical education prepares medical students extremely well for taking a history, observing the patient, and completing a physical exam when the patient is present. However, after a COVID-related hiatus, I learned …
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In 2017, for the first time, more than half of medical school matriculants in the U.S. were women. And in 2019, nearly half of new faculty hires across academic medicine were women. At the same time, some specialties have a much higher or lower proportion of women faculty and residents. On the Academic Medicine Podcast, …
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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 …
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 …
