By Ben Kinnear (@Midwest_MedPeds) In their 2015 commentary in the Journal of Surgical Education, Dr. James Healy and Dr. Peter Yoo recall being “pimped” as medical students about diseases of the esophagus. It’s an interesting […]
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Category: An Educational Moment
What Happens When A Program Director Doesn’t Know Your Test Scores?
By Eric Warm (@CincyIM) In the United States, there is a movement for a more holistic review of residency candidates that de-emphasizes standardized test scores. To obtain a residency position, allopathic medical students must take the United […]
Fixed Mindset in the Water
By Eric Warm (@CincyIM) In 2005, David Foster Wallace addressed the graduating class of Kenyon college with this brief vignette: “There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older […]
The value of being valued – Going beyond “Good job!”
By Shahina Braganza (@ShahinaBraganza), Demian Szyld (@debriefmentor), Jenny Rudolph (@GetCuriousNow) and the Gold Coast Hospital EDGE Collaborators [EDGE is “Educators Get Educated”, and is the community of practice and fellowship led by Victoria Brazil, and formed by the educators […]
Words Hurt: Three Steps to Remove Stigmatizing Language from Clinical Practice
By: Julia Raney, Devika Bhushan, Peter Leahy, Tiffany Lee, Ria Pal, Samuel Ricardo Saenz, Michael Gisondi, Kim Hoang, Carrie Johnson, Cynthia Kapphahn, and Natalie Kirilcuk Stigmatizing language negatively affects quality of care and patient experience. We define ‘stigmatizing language’ as […]