Thinking on Your Feet Well: Building Adaptive Expertise in Learners Using Simulation

On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, Sam Clarke, MD, MAS, and Jon Ilgen, MD, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss the importance of teaching adaptive expertise to prepare learners for the types of complex cases they will encounter in clinical practice. This conversation also covers what adaptive expertise is, how simulation can be used …

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Call for Letters to the Editor From Trainees: Mentorship Matters (Now Open to June 16)

*Submission site: Submitter Login Page - Call for Papers - 2023 Academic Medicine's Letters to the Editor Written by Trainees (abstractscorecard.com)* Editor’s note: We are using the Cadmium submission platform for the call for Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor; please do NOT submit your letters through Editorial Manager. Academic Medicine is seeking original submissions for …

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Call for Cover Art: Now Open to April 28, 2023!

*Submission site: https://www.abstractscorecard.com/cfp/submit/login.asp?EventKey=ZJFEJLIX* Editor's note: We are using the Cadmium submission platform for Cover Art this year; please do NOT submit your Cover Art through Editorial Manager. We are excited to announce our third call for the Cover Art feature will launch on April 3, 2023! Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of experts …

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Empowering Trainees to be Leaders and Change Agents

On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, guests Lala Forrest and Joe Geraghty join host Toni Gallo to discuss the journal's Trainee Letters to the Editor feature. They highlight selected letters submitted in response to last year's call for submissions about the role of trainees as agents of change and discuss how institutions can empower …

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Call for Cover Art: Now Open to June 30, 2022

*Submission site: https://www.abstractscorecard.com/cfp/submit/login.asp?EventKey=VFJQENUK* Editor's note: We are using a new submission platform for Cover Art this year; please do NOT submit your Cover Art through Editorial Manager. We are excited to announce our second annual call for the Cover Art feature! We were thrilled by the response to our first open call last year and …

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Call for Letters to the Editor From Trainees: A Transformative Moment

*Submission site: https://www.abstractscorecard.com/cfp/submit/login.asp?EventKey=KXZMPCIX*   Academic Medicine is seeking original submissions for our Letters to the Editor feature from medical students, residents, fellows, and trainees in other health professions on the topic of a transformative moment in your professional journey. The editors will be looking for letters that go beyond describing an event to reflect meaningfully on how the …

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Transcript for Teaching Climate Change and Its Effects on Human Health

Below is the transcript of the following Academic Medicine Podcast episode: Teaching Climate Change and Its Effects on Human Health April 19, 2021 Read more about this episode and listen here. Toni Gallo: Hi everyone, I'm Toni Gallo, a staff editor with The Journal, and host of the Academic Medicine Podcast. In honor of Earth …

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Teaching Climate Change and Its Effects on Human Health

In honor of Earth Day, on the Academic Medicine Podcast, host Toni Gallo and guests Drs. Kari Nadeau and Ari Bernstein (@DrAriBernstein) discuss climate change and its effects on human health. Drs. Nadeau and Bernstein describe their efforts and the work of others to teach the science and health effects of climate change to medical …

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Resident Well-Being During COVID-19 and Beyond

On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and assistant editor Dr. Will Bynum (@WillBynumMD) and guests Drs. Mike Kemp, Samantha Rivard (@rivardsj), and Joceline Vu (@jocelinevu) discuss the clinical learning environment and resident well-being during COVID-19. They describe efforts by the University of Michigan Department of Surgery to support trainee wellness during COVID and …

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The Management Script in Action: Putting a Practical Tool to Work

In our recent Academic Medicine Perspective, we proposed the term "management script" as a concept for teaching management reasoning. Analogous to the illness script, an essential component of diagnostic reasoning, management scripts are high-level, precompiled, conceptual knowledge structures of the courses of action that a clinician might undertake to address a patient's health care problem(s). …

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