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 …
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
