Thomson Reuters released its 2016 Journal Impact Factors (JIFs), and Academic Medicine has earned a JIF of 5.255. It is our highest JIF ever and places us at the top of the Education, Scientific Disciplines category and third in the Health Care Sciences & Services category, our highest ranking yet in this category. In addition …
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Are you curious about academic medicine scholarship? Why not chat with Academic Medicine’s editor-in-chief? Join our Ask-the-Editor Twitter chat on Tuesday, June 13th, from 2-3PM (ET). Go ahead and ask hard questions—about peer review, about the world of academic medicine, or about conducting and reviewing scholarship. Our Editor-in-Chief, David P. Sklar, MD, is prepared to …
Congratulations to Drs. Irby and Hamstra. Their perspective Parting the Clouds: Three Professionalism Frameworks in Medical Education is a 2016 prize winner. Congratulations to Dr. Wear and colleagues. Their perspective Remembering Freddie Gray: Medical Education for Social Justice is a 2016 prize winner. A blog post on this article is also available. More information about …
By Mohamed Al-Eraky, MD, PhD M. Al-Eraky is assistant professor of medical education, University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia, and a founding member, Medical Education Development Centre, Zagazig University, Egypt. In our recent article, my colleagues and I advocate the significance of cultural competency of physicians. The leading character in our vignettes, Amany, has encountered challenging …
Editor’s Note: For more on this topic, check out the January issue of Academic Medicine. By: David Price, MD, FAAFP, FACEHP, senior vice president, American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Research and Education Foundation, and executive director, ABMS Multi-Specialty Portfolio Approval Program Medical licensure and Board Certification mean very different things for physicians practicing in …
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By: Mark Cummings, PhD, associate dean (emeritus), Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, East Lansing, Michigan, and consultant, Germane Solutions, Dayton, Ohio. In my 35 years in medical education, I have worked for six years at a medical accreditation agency and for more than twenty years as a consultant/evaluator for both regional (North Central …
Editor's Note: For more on using USMLE Step 1 scores to screen applicants for residency, see the commentary by Prober et al in the January 2016 issue. By: Jessica G. Fried, MD, PGY-1 Preliminary Medicine Resident, Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, PA I remember the night before I took Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing …
By: Bruce H. Campbell, MD, professor of otolaryngology and faculty member, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dr. Campbell blogs at Reflections in a Head Mirror. Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted. -Jules Renard Several years ago, a senior medical student was struggling with …
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When we review and ultimately select articles for publication in Academic Medicine, we always hope that they will influence how we think about an important issue and perhaps improve our thinking in a useful and meaningful way. One of the ways that we gauge the value of our articles is by the number of citations …
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Editor’s Note: This post is the second of two on the topic of competency-based medical education. Read the first post here. By: Robert Englander, MD, MPH, Terri Cameron, MA, Amy Addams, Jan Bull, MP, and Joshua Jacobs, MD Dr. Englander is the former senior director of competency-based learning and assessment at the Association of American …
