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  •  #TwitterReport: Using Twitter as a Chief Resident to Teach to Teach Clinical Reasoning to Trainees

    #TwitterReport: Using Twitter as a Chief Resident to Teach to Teach Clinical Reasoning to Trainees

    Most training programs use a form of case-based tutorial - termed "resident report" or "morning report" - to teach clinical reasoning to their trainees. The key feature of these case conferences is their interactivity. Changes in duty hours and increasing clinical demands present a barrier to consis…

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  • (Ear) Budding Potential: Medical Podcasts to Supplement Curriculum and Learning

    (Ear) Budding Potential: Medical Podcasts to Supplement Curriculum and Learning

    Podcasts are now one of the most common asynchronous learning strategies used by trainees. Studies indicate residents find podcasts more helpful than textbooks or journals. Despite the growing popularity of podcasts, it remains unclear which podcasts are best for particular contexts. A recent study…

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  • "He Didn't Just Say What I Think He Did, Did He?" Addressing Racism, Harassment, and Microaggressions in the Clinical Learning Environment

    Health care professionals take an oath to care for all who require their expertise. However, patient populations are inevitably diverse, which may lead to conflict. The literature contains multiple examples of patients discriminating against their medical team. The right to work in an environment…

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  • "It's Not Me, It's You?" Organizational Goals for Addressing Faculty Retention

    The Great Resignation since the start of the pandemic has impacted medicine as much as other disciplines. As recently published in JAMA, one in five physicians intends to leave practice in the next two years. Academic medicine is not protected from this impending challenge. Furthermore, faculty turn…

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  • "You're a Wizard, Harry?" House Cup and Other Tools to Help Your Residents Re-Engage and Make Their Voice Heard in Your Program!

    In the ever-changing landscape of medicine, residents are challenged with more administrative tasks than ever before. From logging duty hours to completing online evaluations, after 80-hour work weeks trainees are left with a pile of administrative responsibilities. Naturally, these tasks go undone…

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  • A Five Year Plan for Resident Clinic Transformation

    A Five Year Plan for Resident Clinic Transformation

    There is a looming shortage of primary care doctors in the United States; a June 2021 AAMC report estimates a shortfall of at least 17,800 by 2034. To catch up, multiple points in the workforce pipeline must be targeted, including medical school admission, residency selection, and GME. But any viabl…

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  • A Framework for Leading Change at the Chief Resident Level

    A Framework for Leading Change at the Chief Resident Level

    Internal medicine chief residents fulfill managerial roles that may necessitate the implementation of changes to team, program, and institutional processes. Enacting change can be challenging, and effective leaders utilize specific tools to successfully guide their teams through the process. Despi…

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  • A Model for Managing Difficult Conversations

    A Model for Managing Difficult Conversations

    As the near-peer leaders of their programs, chief residents frequently face navigating difficult conversations and managing conflict. Conflict resolution is recognized nationally as an essential physician leadership competency, yet chief residents may receive little formal training in this essential…

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  • A Path for Physician-Scientist Pathway Administration: Tips for Research Track Recruitment and Training

    A Path for Physician-Scientist Pathway Administration: Tips for Research Track Recruitment and Training

    The ABIM Research Pathway, also known as the physician-scientist pathway (PSP) or physician-scientist training program, can be a journey of confusion and frustration for program directors, program administrators, division administrators, and research pathway trainees. A panel of coordinators, repres…

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  • A Safe Space: How to Instill a Patient Safety Mindset in Your Residents

    A Safe Space: How to Instill a Patient Safety Mindset in Your Residents

    ACGME recognizes patient safety as a responsibility all physicians share. As a member of the ACGME Collaborative to train learners in reporting and analyzing patient safety events, our internal medicine residency program developed a four-week curriculum consisting of an overview of the culture of sa…

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  • An Approach to Addressing Microaggression and Harassment in the Resident Continuity Clinic Learning Environment

    An Approach to Addressing Microaggression and Harassment in the Resident Continuity Clinic Learning Environment

    Microaggression and harassment events have negative impacts on the resident continuity clinic learning environment. These events are often underreported by trainees. To facilitate resident reporting of these events, improve leadership response to these events, and provide education and coaching for…

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  • Are You Buying What We Are SEL-ling?  How to Write and Interpret the IM SEL (Structured Evaluative Letter) for Holistic Applicant Review

    Are You Buying What We Are SEL-ling? How to Write and Interpret the IM SEL (Structured Evaluative Letter) for Holistic Applicant Review

    The residency recruitment process is complex, challenging, and resource-intensive for all stakeholders. Historically, most categorical internal medicine residency programs require a departmental letter, typically written by a faculty designee of the department. Programs view this letter as a repres…

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  • Are You Professionally Developed?

    Are You Professionally Developed?

    This workshop is designed to help elevate the professional development journey, with a focus on how to present professional development opportunities to higher-ups in a way that will benefit the program, not only the individual. The workshop will provide an overview of various types of professional…

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  • Are Your Learners Ready to Hold the Admission Pager? Building a Resident Rotation for Triage and Disposition Decision-Making

    Are Your Learners Ready to Hold the Admission Pager? Building a Resident Rotation for Triage and Disposition Decision-Making

    In the context of internal medicine , triage refers to a constellation of activities related to determining the most appropriate disposition/management plans for patients. Triaging occurs across the care continuum and represents entrustable professional activities and skills across multiple ACGME do…

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  • Backwards Planning to Forward Progress

    Backwards Planning to Forward Progress

    The chief resident year is comprised of administrative tasks, leadership meetings, and the sudden acquisition of pre-existing curricula that require implementation, revision, or continued sustainability. When coupled with unexpected challenges such as funding cuts or resident attrition, the true vis…

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  • Be Kind and Clear: Deliver High-Quality Feedback to Your Learners Using

    Be Kind and Clear: Deliver High-Quality Feedback to Your Learners Using "Radical Cando?"

    Giving effective feedback to our learners is one of the most important parts of our role as medical educators, but we've all had "feedback fails" - times we didn't give needed feedback because we were afraid of hurting feelings or times when we gave feedback in a way that ended up causing defensiven…

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  • Best Practices In Virtual Recruitment: How to Put Your Best Foot Forward in a Changing Landscape

    Best Practices In Virtual Recruitment: How to Put Your Best Foot Forward in a Changing Landscape

    Residency and fellowship recruitment has changed dramatically over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas previously almost all interviews were conducted in person, we have now moved to a pervasive virtual structure that emerged without preplanning or guidelines. Programs have been largely…

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  • Beyond the Differential: Evidence-Based Strategies to Facilitating Morning Reports

    Beyond the Differential: Evidence-Based Strategies to Facilitating Morning Reports

    Morning report is an educational conference that is central to internal medicine residency training. At many institutions, facilitating morning report represents the most substantial portion of chief residents' teaching responsibilities. Despite the advantages of report, its often-mixed audience of…

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  • Bringing Back the

    Bringing Back the "Qualit?" to Quality Improvement: A Novel Approach to Gamifying and Aligning QI Curricula

    ACGME mandates quality improvement and patient safety (QI/PS) as a competency for GME trainees. Despite this requirement, existing literature indicates that QI/PS programs in academic medicine are uneven and exhibit great heterogeneity in processes and outcomes. This workshop will share our approach…

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  • Building Bridges Instead of Climbing Ladders:  A Leadership Program for Developing Your High-Potential Employees through Networking and Self-Awareness

    Building Bridges Instead of Climbing Ladders: A Leadership Program for Developing Your High-Potential Employees through Networking and Self-Awareness

    The Leadership Development Program (LDP) for Non-Academic Staff in the Department of Medicine (DOM) at Stanford University is intended for high potential employees who are individual contributors (non-managers) in our department.

    The program aims to give participants an overview of our depar…

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