The Lure of Lore: How Medical Students Learn to Navigate Interprofessional Interactions
Discussing a new study that explores medical student learning during interprofessional interactions in clinical clerkships are author Kelsey Miller, MD, EdM, Research in Medical Education (RIME) Commi...
24 Sep 202541min
The Anatomy of Gratitude
For the first time, we began to understand not just their bodies and illnesses but their lives as joyful parents, enthusiastic musicians, expert race car mechanics, and loving spouses. David Deshpan...
8 Sep 20254min
This Academic Life
We are taught to think about what needs to be done in order for our patient to go home when we are on the wards, yet there is no care meeting, discharge coordinator, or bed huddle in academic medicine...
25 Aug 20254min
To Empty A Wheelchair
Throughout my medical training, I vow to make an effort to actively pursue each patient's full story. To cleave only the fragments of their existence that anchor them to the hospital room leaves behin...
4 Aug 20254min
Delusions of Reference
Regardless of how difficult medicine is, each small step we take to listen, be compassionate, have patience, and advocate is meaningful, even if we must start over and do it again tomorrow, and the ne...
21 Jul 20254min
Incorporating Art into Medical Education: The Artists' Perspective
Artists Rachel Mindrup, MFA, and Tuyet-Minh Tran, MD, discuss their artwork that was featured on the cover of Academic Medicine. They explore the inspiration and creative process behind their pieces a...
9 Jul 202538min
The Gift
I, like others in medical education, had the misconception that wellness could solely be achieved by separating work from "real life." I thought I needed to find wellness and restoration outside of me...
16 Jun 20255min
Dealing With Medical Realities—Pessimism or Realism?
I had not role modeled cynicism or pessimism. Rather, my student's statement was a sign of learning and understanding what I had taught: processing and handling the reality of medical practice. Beatr...
19 Mai 20254min
