This episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast is a companion to the August 2023 Ensuring Fairness in Medical Education Assessment supplement, which was sponsored by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. The supplement focuses on creating an optimal, equitable system of learner assessment. In this episode, Holly Humphrey, MD, president of the Macy Foundation, discusses the …
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For an instructor’s perspective on these study strategies, check out the companion post by Alyssa B. Smith’s sister Dr. Megan A. Sumeracki. By: Alyssa B. Smith, third-year medical student, Chicago Medical School I began at Chicago Medical School believing the notion that my study methods had gotten me into medical school, so they could therefore …
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 …
