Ensuring Fairness in Medical Education Assessment

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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Transcript for Experiences of Trainees and Physicians from Minoritized Communities

Below is a transcript of the following Academic Medicine Podcast episode: Experiences of Trainees and Physicians from Minoritized CommunitiesOctober 4, 2021 Read more about this episode and listen here. Toni Gallo: Hi everyone. I'm Toni Gallo. I'm a staff editor with the journal. Every year, Academic Medicine publishes the proceedings of the annual Research in Medical …

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Experiences of Trainees and Physicians from Minoritized Communities

On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, joining hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee member Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, to discuss their research on the experiences of trainees and physicians from minoritized communities in the United States and Canada are Taryn Taylor, MD, MEd, Nicole Rockich-Winston, MS, PharmD, EdD, Tim Mickleborough, …

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Ensuring Equal Access and Appropriate Remediation: Evaluating Struggling Students With Disabilities

Author’s Note: This blog post uses person-first (students with a disability) and identity-first (disabled student) language to honor and acknowledge the contrasted preferences of persons with disabilities. As enthusiastic supporters of disability inclusion in medicine, it can be disheartening when we witness disabled students struggle. Regrettably, faculty are almost never taught how to appropriately approach …

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