Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
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To develop and demonstrate the usefulness of quantitative methods for assessing retention and academic success of junior faculty in academic medicine. ⋯ Using better quantitative methods for evaluating retention and academic success will improve understanding and research in these areas. In this study, use of such methods indicated that organized junior faculty development programs have positive effects on faculty retention and may facilitate success in academic medicine.
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Multicenter Study
A multi-institutional study exploring the impact of positive mental health on medical students' professionalism in an era of high burnout.
Although burnout is associated with erosion of professionalism and serious personal consequences, whether positive mental health can enhance professionalism and how it shapes personal experience remain poorly understood. The study simultaneously explores the relationship between positive mental health and burnout with professionalism and personal experience. ⋯ Findings suggest that positive mental health attenuates some adverse consequences of burnout. Medical student wellness programs should aspire to prevent burnout and promote mental health.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Faculty member review and feedback using a sign-out checklist: improving intern written sign-out.
Although residents commonly perform patient care sign-out during training, faculty do not frequently supervise or evaluate sign-out. The authors designed a sign-out checklist, and they investigated whether use of the checklist, paired with faculty member review and feedback, would improve interns' written sign-out. ⋯ A sign-out checklist paired with twice-monthly, face-to-face feedback from a faculty member led to improvements in the content and quality of interns' written sign-out.
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To summarize the available evidence about patient handoff characteristics and their impact on subsequent patient care in hospitals. ⋯ Published research is highly diverse and idiosyncratic regarding the handoff characteristics and outcomes assessed and the methodologies used, so comparing studies and drawing general conclusions about the field are difficult endeavors. The quality of research on the topic is rather preliminary, and there is not yet enough research to inform evidence-based handoff strategies. Future research, then, should focus on research methods, which outcomes should be assessed, handoff characteristics beyond information transfer, mechanisms that link handoff characteristics and outcomes, and the conditions that moderate the characteristics' effects.
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To explore factors that may be involved in the persistent paucity of women leaders in U.S. academic medicine and to provide baseline gender-related data for developing strategies to promote gender equity in academic medicine leadership. ⋯ Women leaders of U.S. LCME-accredited medical schools have taken longer to advance through the academic ranks, serve at less research-intensive institutions, and had shorter tenures than did men deans. These results underscore the challenges women leaders face in traditionally male-dominated organizations, and they provide baseline data to inform medical schools building inclusive senior leadership teams.