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Test grades and effort are important for medical students, but they also need to be ready to practice the basics of clinical medicine as they transition to residency. This is an interesting read on how the transition from medical school to residency could be improved by communicating student strengths and weaknesses in specialty-specific areas. #MedicalResidency #MedicalStudents #MedicalSchool #Healthcare

The use of standardized patients and simulation is crucial for developing foundational clinical competencies in medical and health professional training. This method is essential to prevent unnecessary patient distress or harm that could result from untrained students practicing on real patients, as was common several decades ago. Additionally, it offers a valuable opportunity to enhance communication, empathy, and teamwork skills. This AMA article provided good insights. https://lnkd.in/gh3-2Wc6 Centre for Medical Education (CenMED), NUS Medicine [NUSMedCenMED] #meded #simulation #healthcare #training #standerdizedpatients

"Future physicians in the Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine embark on week-long journey of learning, community-building, preparing for medical education"

#ICYMI: Center for Empathy and Technology seed grant awardee Dr. Matthew Herbert and his research team recently published findings from their study "A New mHealth Tool to Evaluate Changes over Time in Empathy and Compassion" in the Journal of Clinical #Psychology in Medical Settings. This project measured the impacts of empathy and compassion training within UC San Diego School of Medicine (#UCSDSOM). In doing so, it examined a micro-ecological momentary assessment (or, micro-EMA) approach for measuring the temporal dynamics of compassion in medical students during the #COVID19 pandemic. Medical students completed demographic information and self-report questionnaires assessing empathy and compassion for self and others. The results suggest it is feasible to use micro-EMA to assess daily levels of compassion among students. Additionally, there was wide variability in day-to-day fluctuations in compassion levels among medical students, with some showing substantial increases in daily compassion across the training year and others showing decreases. Learn more about this study at the jump ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gGP8QC8f

New blog post! Read about how societal changes and trends shape the future and current needs of continuing medical education. 👉 https://bit.ly/3BXDkMs

Is this the wave of the future? Is shorting one year off medical school education costing quality? We have the reduced duty hours which decreases residency experience. Should we continue to truncated medical education & training? How are we tracking outcomes on quality of care?

I frequently write about the critical need for increased investment in primary care, which will help us build our primary care workforce and recruit the best and brightest in medicine to choose primary care specialties. Building a robust primary care workforce requires us to think comprehensively about the issues that have led us to where we are today - loss of autonomy, insufficient investment/payment, administrative burden, and a lack of focus on the value of comprehensive primary care. Another issues that needs greater attention is the role of medical schools in creating a pro primary care culture. This morning, I came across an op-ed written by a fourth-year family medicine student that reminded me of just how bright the future of family medicine is. Medical student Danielle Gabuzda wrote eloquently about the need to address medical school cultures, to bolster primary care experience in medical schools, and to invest in primary care. These are big challenges. Thankfully, there are people like the future Dr. Gabuzda entering primary care who are committed to identifying and addressing shortcomings so that we can make primary care for all a reality.

Congratulations to Brent Thoma, Teresa Chan, and colleagues on their recently published paper, Bias in Observed Assessments in Medical Education: A Scoping Review!

It was not the weekend I expected moving my daughter into college. She sadly developed some very concerning symptoms, which I agreed needed emergency evaluation. When we got to the ER, she was asked her pronouns and her mental health status but nobody bothered to ask about her past medical/surgical history or current meds. Not the nurse (3 different RNs during the course of the day) Not the doctor (MD, who wanted to order many tests including lumbar puncture and CT scans exposing her to unnecessary radiation), Noone from start to discharge. Luckily, I was able to put my hippocratic oath abiding neurologist hat on and advocate for her needs as an individual human being - not some hospital algorithm used for allcomers. I explained why none of that very expensive work up was necessary given empiric treatment of the most obvious explanation (based on initial labs) was already showing signs of significant improvement. We sat all day in disbelief at how horrible "Healthcare" has become since I completed my training in Medicine 15 years ago. At a world renowned academic medical institution, I certainly expected better. No wonder so many are needlessly harmed and bankrupted as soon as they need to enter today's medical industrial complex. I used to think it was all about profits and the corporatization of my once sacred profession (especially after the ACA got passed), but now I realize it's much worse than that. We are producing inept physicians who stereotype patients based on immutable characteristics, and worst of all, they are apparently taught to do this in medical school. Patients Beware! https://lnkd.in/gyCt6q43

Sharing our recent commentary in the Canadian Medical Education Journal, discussing the reaction to centring social justice in the post graduate medical education CanMeds framework. Note, this is NOT a piece about the undeniable need for physicians to have “medical expertise” This is a reflection and commentary on 😠How reactions to even the *idea* that social justice and anti oppression should be given more prominence in medical education caused certain folks to become enraged. 🌓 How many (including opinions in the national media) were not able to be in both/and thinking about the concepts of medical expertise and social justice, and instead encouraged false dichotomies ❌ The tactic used by some when they disagree with a concept - delegitimize individuals rather than engaging in dialogue about concepts 🔌 The inevitable way in which power operates to maintain status quo in systems based on fierce individualism and colonial structures “While biomedical knowledge is critical to the daily work of physicians, clinical information without patient context is only a series of facts. Understanding the social factors and structural power dynamics at play are key parts to effective medical practice.”