Global Health Reflections
About 37 years ago a devastating earthquake killed thousands as they slept in their homes in the highlands of Guatemala. International groups of volunteers including physicians and nurses responded to...
View ArticleWhat Role Can Academic Medicine Play in Addressing Health Care Problems?
Academic Medicine‘s Editor in Chief, David Sklar, M.D., has a Viewpoint in the AAMC Reporter this month: “How Academic Medicine Creates Synergy to Address Health Care Problems” (excerpted below)....
View ArticleHow Do We Retain Outstanding Older Physicians?
I recognize many of them at the gym, older men and women pedaling and sweating on the machines. Their sweats and athletic gear create a different image from the green scrubs and white coats I associate...
View ArticleSpecialty Choice in Graduate Medical Education
Over the past year, I have had the opportunity to meet with residents at national meetings as well as during my time in Washington when they participated in their specialty advocacy meetings. In...
View ArticleWelcome from the Editor in Chief
Listen below for a brief introduction to AM Rounds from Editor-in-Chief David P. Sklar, MD Download: acadmed2%281%29.mp3 Filed under: Audio, From the Editor, Multimedia Tagged: AM Rounds, Editor in...
View ArticleOn the MCAT, and Getting In
Editor’s note: This month, AM Rounds is publishing a series of posts on the MCAT exam, in conjunction with Academic Medicine‘s collection in the May 2013 issue. To kick things off, Academic Medicine‘s...
View ArticleTwo Academic Medicine articles win 2012 ABIM Foundation Professionalism...
Congratulations to Dr. Haizlip and colleagues for their September 2012 perspective entitled Perspective: The Negativity Bias, Medical Education, and the Culture of Academic Medicine: Why Culture Change...
View ArticleMorbidity and Mortality Conferences: A Powerful Learning Tool to Improve...
Morbidity and Mortality (M and M) conferences have been around for a long time, though they have had different emphasis in different specialties. Some specialties have focused more on the individual...
View ArticleSupreme Court Issues Decision in Fisher v University of Texas at Austin:...
Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Fisher v the University of Texas at Austin regarding the use of race in admissions. In a 7-1 ruling, the justices sent the case back to the lower...
View ArticleThe Importance of Department Chairs to Academic Medical Centers
In our July issue there are three contributions about the changing role of chair of a clinical department. Dr Kastor interviewed a group of chairs of Internal Medicine and found consensus that the job...
View ArticleThe Importance of Diversity and the Potential of Holistic Review in Medical...
In its June 24, 2013 decision in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the Supreme Court addressed the issue of race and higher education admissions. This decision has significant implications for...
View ArticleNew Academic Medicine eBook
The Ten Years of Teaching and Learning Moments eBook includes brief vignettes that chronicle the first-person experiences of teachers, students, and patients as they learn about the science and the art...
View Article“Habla Espanol?”: Improving Communication between Care Providers and Patients...
I walk into the room and when I ask the patient what brought her to the hospital I receive a confused look followed by a hopeful, “Habla espanol?” “Si,” I answer and the woman smiles and begins to...
View ArticleTraining the Future Health Care Workforce: Academic Medicine and Health...
Current workforce projections suggest a substantial physician shortage over the next 10 to 15 years. In its December 2013 special workforce issue, Academic Medicine provides background and analysis of...
View ArticleAttending Learn ● Serve ● Lead: The AAMC 2013 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia?
Visit us in the exhibit hall To learn more about new ways to engage with the journal and about our special meeting attendee subscription discount Attend our 2013 Question of the Year Session: What is a...
View ArticleShould I Go Global?
As a medical student I spent a month in Tanzania at a teaching hospital. I encountered problems and learned procedures that I never would have seen or done in the United States. The experience gave me...
View ArticleOpportunities to Improve Medical Education
What are the most important questions in medical education? Here are some to consider. “How can we best help our medical students and residents achieve procedural competency?” Or, “What is the impact...
View ArticleAcademic Medical Center Mergers: How Do I Know if Bigger is Better?
Our identity is fundamental to how we see the world, approach problems and develop relationships. The exploration of identity was the underlying concept between last year’s question of the year, “What...
View ArticleHelping Residents to Improve Quality of Care: We Need More than Another Lecture
A few days ago, I was speaking to an assembled group of residents . It was late in the afternoon and I could tell that the residents’ eyes were becoming heavy. The topic was Quality Improvement and...
View ArticleREMINDER: Responses to the 2014 Question of the Year Due May 1
Editor’s Note: The 2014 Question of the Year, reproduced below, appears in the January 2014 issue of the journal. Visit our website to read past Questions of the Year and published responses–2013,...
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