Medical residents are experts on work “how it’s done,” as they work at the frontline of health care delivery day in day out. This means that they are valuable sources of information to improve the quality of health care. However, my colleagues’ and my research, presented in a recent Academic Medicine article, suggests that residents …
Continue reading How to Empower Medical Residents to Speak Up and Share Their Suggestions for Change
Academics sometimes get a bad rap for being stuck in their ivory towers. But many academics realize that their expertise can be useful to policymakers and aim to make it widely available through a variety of avenues. We write op-eds, publish in policy-oriented journals, send letters to elected officials, write amicus briefs, submit comments on …
Continue reading What Should Academics Know About Lobbying Law?
In 2014, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), led by activist Edward Blum, filed a suit against Harvard University, contending that the Harvard admissions process unfairly discriminates against Asian American applicants. The SFFA further argued that to remedy this outcome, Harvard must remove considerations of race and ethnicity in its holistic admissions approach. In a recent …
Joining the Academic Medicine Podcast to discuss the current role of podcasts as educational tools in medical education, new research on the topic, and why podcasts are here to stay are guest host and assistant editor for trainee engagement Dr. Jesse Burk-Rafel (@jbrafel), podcasters Drs. Shreya Trivedi (@ShreyaTrivediMD) and Jess Mason (@JessMasonMD), and researcher Dr. …
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Societal awareness of racial, gender, and ethnic bias has increased, but other stigmatized groups remain at risk for exclusion. It is important to consider lesser known forms of bias and their potential for influencing behavior. To this end, in our recent Academic Medicine article, we used the application photograph to study the impact of applicants’ …
Continue reading Appearance-Based Discrimination in GME Resident Selection
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 …
Continue reading “I need you to forgive yourself”: Shame in Medicine and Medical Education
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 …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading When DACA Recipients Seek to Match: Some Tips from the Trenches
“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 …
Continue reading A New Norm: The Amplified Stress of Applying to Residency
