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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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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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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On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and assistant editor for trainee engagement Dr. Jesse Burk Rafel (@jbrafel) and guest Dr. Lotte Dyrbye (@dyrbye) discuss burnout in medical students and residents, including new recommendations from the National Academies about systems-level changes to foster well-being in learners. This episode is now available through iTunes and the Apple …
Academic Medicine is seeking original submissions for our Letters to the Editor feature from medical students, residents, and fellows on the topic of courage, connection, and COVID-19. The global pandemic of COVID-19 reached the United States in January 2020, and people throughout the world have been affected by this virus in some way. Education of health professionals …
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Medical residents are experts on work “how it’s done,” as they work at the frontline of health care delivery day in day out. This means that they are valuable sources of information to improve the quality of health care. However, my colleagues’ and my research, presented in a recent Academic Medicine article, suggests that residents …
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The moment I made the error—an unfathomable vaginal laceration caused by my hands during the vacuum-assisted delivery—it felt as if a massive floodlight, centered right over my head, descended on me. All eyes in the room, aghast at my error and its outcome, bore straight through me. A rush of anxiety and fear flushed down …
Continue reading To Pull Back the Curtain on Shame in Medical Education, I Had to Start With Myself
#WinterWishList Contest Rules Are you a medical trainee? Have you ever wished that you could have your own subscription to Academic Medicine? Is Academic Medicine on your #WinterWishList? Tweet us, using @AcadMedJournal and #WinterWishList, to let us know what you like best about the journal or why you want to win a subscription for a …
Are you curious about academic medicine scholarship? Why not chat with Academic Medicine’s editor-in-chief? Join our Ask-the-Editor Twitter chat on Tuesday, June 13th, from 2-3PM (ET). Go ahead and ask hard questions—about peer review, about the world of academic medicine, or about conducting and reviewing scholarship. Our Editor-in-Chief, David P. Sklar, MD, is prepared to …
