Academic Medicine Journal

New Video Abstract ✨ Development and Validation of an Organizational Justice Measure for Medical Trainees In a multi-institutional, multi-year study, Michael Cullen, PhD, Jessica Hane, MD, John Q. Young, MD, MPP, PhD, Taj Mustapha, MD, and colleagues developed and validated a 16-item measure to understand trainees’ perceptions of justice in their interactions with key groups in the clinical learning environment. 🎦 Check out the video abstract summarizing this work: https://lnkd.in/enkTuq4d 📰 Read the full Academic Medicine article: https://lnkd.in/gxQ5ZfNR 

Social Media and Promotions Toolkit for Authors 📢 Promoting your published work is just as important as any other step in the scholarly publishing process. We have a toolkit to help you do just that, with a particular focus on promoting your work on social media. Check out the full toolkit here: https://ow.ly/YbpC50TABbs. #AcademicMedicine #MedicalEducation #Promotions #SocialMedia

New on the Academic Medicine Podcast 🎙 Rethinking Assessment and Supporting Learners Through Failure and Remediation “So one student talked about a leader at their school getting up in front of the school during orientation and saying, ‘I failed.’ … And the student remembered hearing that and going like, ‘Whoa, that person is really doing well in their career and they failed something. So actually it must be okay to fail something.’ I think some of those little pieces, those little actions around normalizing failure can help us.” Lynnea Mills, MD, joins host Toni Gallo to discuss her new study of medical students’ experiences of failure and remediation in the United States and the Netherlands, which is part of this year’s Research in Medical Education (RIME) collection. Also joining the conversation are RIME Committee member Mike Ryan, MD, MEHP, and AAMC MedEdSCHOLAR Anna-kay Thomas, Ed.D. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. Listen now, read the article discussed, and access the episode transcript at https://lnkd.in/dwW_SS9M. #meded #assessment #remediation #podcast #research

Get a SNEAK PEEK of “Improving Academic Promotion Success via Implementation of Targeted Preparation Strategies and Coaching Processes” before the full text is available. This soon-to-be-published innovation report is by Jacqueline (Hill) Scott, PhD, MPH, Enam Haddad, Sarah Braet, MBA, Eric Rush, MD, and Denise Bratcher, DO. Problem Academic promotion is important for faculty career development and retention in academic medicine. However, the promotion process is time consuming, with little guidance offered to ensure successful outcomes. The authors describe their institution’s standardized approach to providing clear and reliable academic promotion support and share associated outcomes. Approach An academic promotion support process, comprising 4 targeted preparation strategies and 3 coaching processes, was implemented in 2020 at Children's Mercy Kansas City to prepare faculty to submit promotion applications. Targeted preparation strategies include communication plans, an intent to apply process, how-to guides and templates, and institutional promotion committee review. Coaching processes include structured conversations with an immediate faculty leader, an Office of Faculty Development director, and, after committee review of applications, an institutional promotion committee reviewer. Descriptive statistics and promotion outcomes were compared pre (2012–2019) and post (2020–2023) implementation. Outcomes In 2012–2019 (8 promotion cycles), prior to implementation of the academic promotion support process, 247 faculty applied for academic promotion. After implementation, in 2020–2023 (4 cycles), 196 faculty applied. From pre to post implementation, the mean volume of applications per cycle significantly increased from 31 to 49 (P = .03), and the proportion of approved promotion applications significantly increased from 89.5% (221/247) to 99.0% (194/196) (P < .001). No significant differences were observed in the proportions of applicants who were female (P = .77) or non-White (P = .51). Next Steps Creation of an institutional academic promotion support process can be effective in increasing the volume of applications and the likelihood of successful outcomes. Future research should focus on increasing the proportions of non-White faculty and female faculty who apply for promotion and analyzing longer-term outcomes for faculty who are promoted, such as progression to leadership roles. #meded #innovation #promotion #careerdevelopment #coaching

So many consequential topics in academic medicine deserve greater inquiry and our sustained attention. Unionization is one topic highlighted in the October issue of Academic Medicine. In this issue, 3 articles focus on unionization in the context of graduate medical education (GME), written by trainees, faculty educators, and institutional officials, who comment on residents’ and fellows’ concerns and hopes that surround unionization. Some authors describe the issues that have led trainees to engage with unions. Some describe their efforts to ensure a positive educational environment and, at the same time, to recognize the employment rights of residents and fellows. And some reflect on their experiences and offer advice related to negotiating and implementing GME union contracts—processes that can introduce a host of challenges that range from legal to interpersonal. With unionization on the rise in health professions education during this postpandemic period, more articles on this topic are in our queue for publication in the coming months. We hope that these works will stimulate discussion and serve to demonstrate the journal’s commitment to strengthening the educational experiences of early career colleagues in the health professions. https://lnkd.in/gBqcb-RY

We have a new collection on resident and fellow unionization! This collection features articles that are part of an evolving conversation unfolding on the pages of the journal about resident and fellow unions. Read more here: https://ow.ly/v1pG50TACaf. #AcademicMedicine #MedicalEducation #Union #Residency #Fellowship

Moving Accreditation Forward With Accreditation Scholarship "Accreditation in medical education serves to create and sustain a culture of excellence in medical education endeavors. Accreditors in undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education, and continuing professional development spaces on the medical education continuum need to enhance collaboration across international boundaries to develop and implement best practices in medical education accreditation. One opportunity that exists to achieve this is the emerging field of accreditation research, and more broadly, accreditation scholarship. In this commentary, the authors, both professional members of Canadian accreditation committee secretariats (the Committee on the Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools and the Committee on the Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education), highlight accreditation scholarship as tool to support medical education accreditation improvement, growth, and innovation." Read the full article here: https://ow.ly/nmfu50TABH8. #AcademicMedicine #MedicalEducation #Accreditation #Scholarship

Artificial intelligence (AI) methods continue to generate excitement for their potential to improve or make more efficient many of our current approaches in health professions education. In particular, the uses of machine learning in health professions education are wide-ranging and advancing quickly. Increasingly, novel machine learning applications are embraced for their value in higher-stakes professional activities, such as holistic review of health professions education applicants, personalized curriculum development, and assessment of trainee competence. Research in these areas has kindled the current wave of interest in AI and machine learning in health professions education, even before ChatGPT enabled widespread public use of AI in late 2022. Expectations and transparency regarding uses of ChatGPT in submissions to Academic Medicine have been articulated in previous editorials. In the September editorial, we discuss the need for greater detail in submissions to our journal that examine, or describe implementations of, novel machine learning models developed for applications in health professions education. Specifically, we ask that authors of future reports of studies that involve machine learning models expand their focus beyond the overall performance of the examined model to include sufficient description for our editors, reviewers, and readers to understand the methods of the model, to replicate it, to evaluate the results, and to consider the generalizability and potential further applications of the model. Such considerations are especially salient if the model is not publicly available or if commercial interests may influence the model’s use and role in the field of academic medicine or in society at large. From an ethical perspective, when novel machine learning approaches are used for higher-stakes activities with real consequences for applicants, learners, educators, and institutions across our field, the need for transparency—as a key safeguard for accountability and against harm—is even greater. https://lnkd.in/gsKKjAQb

📢 Have you seen our October issue yet? 📢 Here are some highlights: 1️⃣ Exploring How Housestaff Unions Impact the Program Director–Resident Educational Alliance, by Sara M. Krzyzaniak, MD, Stefanie S. Sebok-Syer, PhD, Saadia Akhtar, MD, and Fiona Gallahue, MD 2️⃣ Using Natural Language Processing to Visualize Narrative Feedback in a Medical Student Performance Dashboard, by Christina Maimone, PhD, Brigid M. Dolan, MD, MEd, Marianne M. Green, MD, Sandra M. Sanguino, MD, MPH, and Celia Laird O’Brien, PhD 3️⃣ Medical Malpractice Cases Involving Medical Students, by Jordan R. Pollock, MBA, Eric Shappell, MD, MHPE, Benjamin J. Sandefur, MD, MHPE, M. Lane Moore, MBA, and Rachel A. Lindor, MD, JD Check out these articles and more at: https://ow.ly/uuLp50TEFCU. #MedicalEducation #AcademicMedicine

Welcoming Manuscripts on Consequential Topics for Our Field of Academic Medicine "So many consequential topics in academic medicine deserve greater inquiry and our sustained attention." In the October editorial, our editor-in-chief, Laura Roberts MD, MA, welcomes manuscripts that can foster understanding and dialogue on subjects of importance to academic medicine, such as medical school accreditation, government investment in research and public health, health care workforce trends, forward-looking curricular innovations, and many more. Read the full editorial here: https://ow.ly/nALu50TAAZJ. #AcademicMedicine #MedicalEducation