As I entered my final year of training and saw dozens of colleagues go through a professional development plateau, I wanted to be proactive in approaching my transition to a faculty role. That’s where my Educator’s Portfolio (EP) (compared to a traditional curriculum vitae (CV) in an Academic Medicine Last Page I coauthored) came into …
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Societal awareness of racial, gender, and ethnic bias has increased, but other stigmatized groups remain at risk for exclusion. It is important to consider lesser known forms of bias and their potential for influencing behavior. To this end, in our recent Academic Medicine article, we used the application photograph to study the impact of applicants’ …
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