On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and assistant editor Dr. Dorene Balmer (@dorenebalmer) and guests medical students Bri Christophers (@BriChristophers) and Naomi Nkinsi (@NNkinsi) discuss how race is portrayed in medical education and what individuals and institutions should do to address racism in the curriculum and learning environment. This episode is now available …
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Academic Medicine is committed to assisting medical schools and teaching hospitals, their faculty and trainees, and the public in learning more about complex issues and strategies to acknowledge, repair, and transcend racism to make academic medicine not only more inclusive and diverse but also more focused on a vision of human mutuality. To this end, …
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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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Academic Medicine is seeking trainee applicants for the role of Assistant Editor for Trainee Engagement (AETE). Created as part of the Advancing Trainees as Leaders and Scholars (ATLAS) initiative, the AETE works closely with the journal’s editor-in-chief and editorial staff to develop resources and complementary content for and by trainees. Key Duties The AETE will …
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In our recent Academic Medicine Perspective, we proposed the term "management script" as a concept for teaching management reasoning. Analogous to the illness script, an essential component of diagnostic reasoning, management scripts are high-level, precompiled, conceptual knowledge structures of the courses of action that a clinician might undertake to address a patient's health care problem(s). …
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Academic Medicine is excited to announce that our Cover Art feature is getting a refresh! In preparation, the feature is now temporarily closed for new submissions. Please stay tuned for a relaunch of Cover Art through an organized call for new submissions in spring 2021. Thank you for helping for us make the Cover Art …
Hosts Toni Gallo and editor-in-chief Dr. Laura Roberts (@_Roberts_Laura) and guest Caurice Wynter (@md_wynter) discuss COVID-19. Caurice, a fourth-year medical student, shares her COVID-19 story, the health inequities she and her family faced try to get care, and the insight she gained from navigating the health care system as a patient, a family member, and …
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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