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 …
Clarifying the Difference Between Medical Licensure and Board Certification
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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Understanding the Differences and Similarities Between LCME and COCA Accreditation Standards
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 …
What Step 1 Means to Me Now
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 …
The Personal Statement: Helping Medical Students Put Pen to Paper
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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The Most Influential Medical Education Articles
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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Developing a Framework for Competency Assessment: Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs)
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 …
Understanding Competency-Based Medical Education
Editor’s Note: This post is the first of two on the topic of competency-based medical education. Read the second 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 …
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To Be a Doctor: Reflections on the Professional Identity Formation Special Issue
Editor's Note: Check out our June issue, which is devoted entirely to professional identity formation. By: Hedy S. Wald, PhD, clinical associate professor of family medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University I enter the room at the medical school on my Family Medicine Clerkship teaching day. I co-facilitate small group collaborative reflection based …
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Health Care Intelligence as a Model to Manage the Future Non-Clinical Interests of Doctors
By: Harris Eyre, MBBS, Visiting Australian Fulbright Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles, and Global Ties Fellow The commentary by Dr. Des Gorman¹ provides an exciting health care intelligence model for the 21st century—a method to negate the characteristic health workforce “feast or famine” cycle, which occurs all too often in workforce planning. This method …