Strategies for Writing Effective Titles, Part 1

Today, we’ll be sharing strategies for writing effective titles as part of our new writing series, What’s in a Name? How to Write an Effective Title. Just a quick reminder that this series is based on a workshop the Academic Medicine editorial staff developed, so the terminology and examples we use are from Academic Medicine. …

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Learning to Learn as a Medical Student

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 …

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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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