Teaching Across Generations "Hits Different"
Both faculty members and medical students can benefit by appreciating that their advising relationship "hits different" due to their respect...
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Academic Medicine Podcast
Meet medical students and residents, clinicians and educators, health care thought leaders and researchers in this podcast from the journal Academic Medicine. Episodes chronicle the stories...
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20 of 160 episodesBecause of Her
When I care for my patients, I think of her. I am grateful for her; she gave me this opportunity to trust myself. I am grateful for her; she...
Levels of Losses
As a caregiver myself, this experience brought recognition of my need to take the time to grieve. Acknowledging my sadness over the neurodeg...
My Intern Cried on Rounds
While acknowledging her embarrassment, I encouraged her to hold fast to that part of her—the part that was so moved by the work she did to h...
100 Years of Academic Medicine: A Conversation with the Journal's Editors-in-Chief
Celebrating Academic Medicine 's 100th anniversary are past editors-in-chief Addeane Caelleigh, Steven Kanter, MD, and David Sklar, MD, and...
Why Am I Talking: Should I WAIT
Whenever a patient or learner asked a question, instead of answering, I would look at the senior resident and WAIT for them to answer it. Tu...
Healer's Reflections: Someone Special
Every patient is the protagonist in their own story. When we open our hearts to their narratives, we see ourselves reflected in them. We are...
Seeing Medicine: Learning to Read Between the Shadows
Every shadow on a scan carries weight. And every patient deserves someone who knows how to read between the shadows—and then, to speak gentl...
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
Medicine was not just about what we did for patients—it was about how we walked with them through life and death. A typical day for me might...
First Impressions
The candles ignited my pants that evening. But the real culprit was my anxiety over making a good first impression: in an effort to avoid th...
Scholarship at Night: Building a Successful Career as an Academic Nocturnist
Discussing the unique role of the nocturnist, or the night shift clinician, in academic medicine, are Jessica Chambers, MD, MPH, Alex Ritten...
The Severance of a Thread
We do not always rage against the dying of the light. Sometimes, we allow the light to fade gently, with grace, in the presence of love. Nez...
The Heart of Hope
Something shifted after that conversation. It wasn't a dramatic overnight change, but it was there—the slightest flicker of fight in him aga...
The Responsible Use of AI for Peer Review
Discussing Academic Medicine 's and MedEdPORTAL 's new policy guiding the use of AI tools in the peer review process are editors-in-chief La...
More Than a Stethoscope
Mrs. Jones didn't need a cure. She needed a witness to her grief—someone to sit with her in the silence, to validate the love she had for he...
No Estás Sola
Dora taught me that care is not just found in grand gestures or lifesaving procedures. It is in the quiet moments when someone chooses to li...
Listening Beyond the Monitors: A Lesson from Joe
In the fast-paced world of health care, it's easy to focus on numbers, treatments, and protocols. But humanism requires us to pause, to list...
Being Intentional: How Space, Place, and Pace Influence Equity in Workplace-Based Assessment
Discussing new research into how the physical and social context of the clinical learning environment shape power dynamics and influence equ...
A Big Deal
Our stories make us human and shape the doctors we become. Yet, we rarely let our pasts show from beneath our white coats. Sydney Katz refle...
Presence Beyond Language: A Medical Student's First Day in Clinic
Although discussions about language services like interpreters or translators, patient–provider concordance, and linguistic equity merit muc...