Academic Medicine Call for Volunteer Assistant Editors
Academic Medicine is seeking applications for volunteer assistant editors. The assistant editor role is characterized by
Working closely with the editor-in-chief, associate editors, and editorial staff on matters related to manuscript review and decision-making
Strengthening experience and skills related to writing, reviewing, and editing content for scholarly publication
Attending annual Academic Medicine editorial board meetings
Successful candidates will have experience reviewing for our journal and demonstrate a strong interest in medical education and scholarly publishing. Priority will be ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - April 15, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: hgrimmaamc Tags: Call for Assistant Editors medical education scholarly publishing Source Type: blogs
2023 Cover Art Honorable Mentions
Editor’s note: If you are interested in submitting to our next call for cover art, stay tuned for details coming later this year.
In response to our third call for cover art in 2023, we received an overwhelming number of submissions. We were thrilled with the number and quality of submissions, and we are grateful for and humbled by the authors’ artwork, insights, stories, and reflections. Because we can print only a fraction of the cover art we received, we wanted to acknowledge the artists whose work we loved but cannot publish. The following artists received an honorable mention:
Missing Pieces, by Alicia As...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - April 9, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: Call for Cover Art humanities in medicine medical education scholarly publishing Source Type: blogs
Academic Medicine Call for Volunteer Assistant Editors – Coming Soon!
Are you an experienced reviewer, researcher, or scholar looking to gain experience in an editorial role? Beginning April 15, 2024, Academic Medicine will be seeking applications for the journal’s volunteer assistant editor role!
See past calls for an idea of the responsibilities and requirements of the role. Follow the journal on X (formerly Twitter) @AcadMedJournal and LinkedIn for updates about the call for applications.
More details about the assistant editor program are discussed in an editorial and an Invited Commentary in the journal’s October 2021 issue.
We look forward to ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - March 15, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: Call for Assistant Editors medical education scholarly publishing Source Type: blogs
Language Equity in Medical Education
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, Pilar Ortega, MD, MGM, Débora Silva, MD, MEd, and Bright Zhou, MD, MS, join host Toni Gallo to discuss strategies to address language-related health disparities and enhance language-appropriate training and assessment in medical education. They explore one specific language concordant education framework, Culturally Reflective Medicine, which recognizes and supports the lived experiences and expertise of multi-lingual learners and clinicians from minoritized communities.
This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcast...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - February 20, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast diversity and inclusion language equity medical education medical education scholarship patient care Source Type: blogs
Do What You Do Better: Using AI Tools to Ease the Workload Burden on Faculty
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, Christy Boscardin, PhD, Brian Gin, MD, PhD, Marc Triola, MD, and Academic Medicine assistant editor Gustavo Patino, MD, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss the ways that artificial intelligence (AI) tools can help ease the workload burden on faculty and staff, with a focus on assessment and admissions. They explore the opportunities that AI tools afford as well as ethical, data privacy, bias, and other issues to consider with their use. They conclude by looking to the future and where medical education might go from here.
This episode is now available through App...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 13, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine Academic Medicine podcast admissions AI artificial intelligence assessment ChatGPT Source Type: blogs
Updates for Our Medicine and the Arts Feature
Medicine and the Arts (MATA) is Academic Medicine’s longest-running feature. Since 1991, MATA authors have explored the relationship between art and the teaching, learning, and practice of medicine. MATA has long served a unique role in the literature of health professions education by inviting moments of reflection on medicine as seen through the lens of the arts and humanities. To ensure the ongoing success of the MATA feature in an ever-evolving digital landscape, we are announcing some updates to how we handle the artwork that forms the basis of all MATA pieces.
Each MATA piece comprises a work of art—a pa...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - November 15, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: hgrimmaamc Tags: Journal Announcement Academic Medicine Medicine and the Arts Source Type: blogs
Faculty Perspectives on Responding to Microaggressions Targeting Clerkship Students
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, Meghan O’Brien, MD, MBE, and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee members Tasha Wyatt, PhD, and Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss new research into faculty perspectives on responding to microaggressions targeting medical students in the clinical learning environment. They explore several tensions that affected how faculty responded to the microaggressions in the study scenarios as well as some of the strategies the faculty used to respond effectively.
This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else p...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 31, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast faculty development medical education medical students microaggressions RIME Source Type: blogs
Faculty and Student Perceptions of Unauthorized Collaborations
In this study, it was clear students do recognize the need for individual accountability and that their individual competence will be assessed, but they also recognize that they are encouraged to work with each other and that throughout their careers they will be working with colleagues in the clinical settings and for the rest of their lives. That gets at some of the tension, and we create some of that tension in the curriculum because we foster students working together in small groups and we embrace them supporting each other and helping each other learn. Then that comes up against the individual demonstration of compet...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 24, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast faculty learning environment medical students RIME Source Type: blogs
Learner Perspectives on the Learner Handover Process
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, Tammy Shaw, MD, MMed, and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee member Arianne Teherani, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss new research into learner perspectives on the learner handover process. They discuss the role of trust in this process, the potential for bias, the purpose of handovers vs. how they’re perceived by learners, and recommendations for making handovers safer and more effective.
This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are available.
This episode is the first in thi...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 16, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast bias handovers medical education RIME trust Source Type: blogs
Ensuring Fairness in Medical Education Assessment
This study takes a first step in centering the margins as we as medical educators grow our understanding of the dynamics of promoting fairness in assessment. Future studies should explore feedback with intentional inclusion and involvement of diverse students, teachers, and researchers at every stage of the research process from conceptualization through dissemination and application of the new learning. We thank our participants for their time and candor discussing this sensitive topic and the Group on Educational Affairs for funding our work. Thank you for your time and attention and the focus that you’ll put on th...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 18, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast assessment equity Macy Foundation medical education Source Type: blogs
New Collection of Articles on Language Equity in Medical Education
To recognize and demonstrate that all persons are valued and respected, academic medicine ideally will reflect the communication needs and language preferences of the population. We have curated a collection of articles with the intent of helping readers understand historical perspectives on the need to address language-related health disparities and informing strategies to enhance language-appropriate health care training and assessment at their institutions.
Each of us, Dr. Pilar Ortega and Dr. Débora Silva, brings a different perspective on language equity informed by our personal and professional experiences. I (P....
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 8, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: Guest Perspective Journal Announcement Academic Medicine collection language equity medical education Source Type: blogs
Still Here: My Experience with Repeating a Year of Medical School
On a hot and humid July afternoon, the white coat ceremony for the class of 2025 at the Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine was in full swing. Not even the threat of a giant thunderstorm, which happens often during the summer in Miami, could dampen the excitement of 150 aspiring physicians and their families. I walked onstage, slipped on brand-new white coat, and accepted the coveted “medical student” title I had spent years working for. I thought about why I was embarking on this journey: my family of Vietnam War refugees, my brother who has autism, and my father who suddenly passed a...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 1, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Laura Siegel Tags: 1st Year Med Student Motivation Resilience Source Type: blogs
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 to foster this skill in learners, and the complementary relationship between performance-oriented cases and adaptive cases in health professions education.
This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are available.
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Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 24, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast adaptive expertise medical education medical students residents simulation Source Type: blogs
Academic Medicine Earns Impact Factor of 7.4!
Clarivate Analytics released its 2022 Journal Impact Factors (JIFs), and Academic Medicine earned a JIF of 7.4. It places us at the top of the Education, Scientific Disciplines category for the eighth year in a row. It also places us third in the Health Care Sciences & Services category.
In addition to having the top JIF in our category, Academic Medicine maintained its status as a highly-cited journal with 23,242 citations in 2021.
The JIF for a given year is calculated by dividing the number of citations during that year to articles that were published during the previous two-year period by the total number of ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - June 28, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: hgrimmaamc Tags: Journal Announcement journal impact factor medical education scholarly publishing Source Type: blogs
Greatness Originates in Small Acts of Kindness
People perceive greatness as something that comes from grand gestures or remarkable achievements. However, the field of medicine has shown us time and time again that the origin of true greatness lies in small acts of kindness. Seemingly minor acts of generosity and compassion have the power to not only improve the lives of our patients, but to inspire future generations to follow in our footsteps. Even as a premed, I strive to embody these values so that when I become a physician, I can inspire future generations of providers to do the same.
This realization dawned upon me during my senior year of college when I shadow...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - June 23, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Laura Siegel Source Type: blogs
