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
So far this week, we’ve shared tips for addressing reviewer comments that have come from the literature, longtime Academic Medicine authors, editorial board members, and the editorial staff. If you missed any of these, you can find them here. Today, we’d like to close the series by highlighting some key takeaways from the advice and tips …
Continue reading Addressing Reviewer Comments Recap: Key Takeaways and Additional Resources
To complement the advice from our longtime authors and editorial board members that we shared earlier this week, today we're sharing suggestions from the Academic Medicine editorial staff. This post is part of a series on tips for addressing reviewer comments during the revisions part of the publication process. You can read the other posts …
Continue reading Staff Suggestions for Addressing Reviewer Comments
To complement the tips for addressing reviewer comments from longtime Academic Medicine authors that we shared yesterday, today we’re sharing suggestions from Academic Medicine editorial board members. This post is part of a series on tips for addressing reviewer comments during the revisions part of the publication process. You can read the other posts in …
Continue reading Editorial Board Member Suggestions for Addressing Reviewer Comments
To complement the tips for addressing reviewer comments that we shared yesterday, today we’re sharing suggestions from longtime Academic Medicine authors. This post is part of a series on tips for addressing reviewer comments during the revisions part of the publication process. You can read the other posts in the series here. Daniel J. Schumacher, MD, MEd, Cincinnati …
Continue reading Author Suggestions for Addressing Reviewer Comments
As an author, you may struggle when you receive a decision letter that requires revisions to your manuscript. Where do you start? How do you address everything the reviewers have asked? How do you organize your changes and convey them to the journal's editors? This week, we'll be sharing tips for addressing reviewer comments. Each …
Continue reading Tips to Move from “Revisions Needed” to Resubmission
As a child, I was deemed good at math. And so my fourth-grade teacher expressed surprise when I scored an 89% on a test. After passing out our grades, she called me to her desk. I remember feeling very small as I stood before her in my green and yellow plaid tunic, the uniform at …
Continue reading Breaking the Silence Around Shame in Medical Education
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 …
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 …
