Purpose: Educational impact is dependent on student engagement. Assessment design can provide a scaffold for student engagement to determine the focus of student efforts. Little is known about how medical students engage with assessment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGraduate medical education (GME), the period of specialty and subspecialty training following attainment of a medical degree, is the final step in a continuum of medical education culminating in independent physician practice. This manuscript uses the metaphor "our house" to describe all aspects of the GME environment in which health care professionals and trainees learn and work. Our house's inhabitants have unequivocally stated that our house is in a state of disrepair.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Exception From Informed Consent (EFIC) research requires community consultation (CC) and public disclosure (PD). Traditional methods of conducting CC and PD are slow, expensive, and labor intensive.
Objective: To describe the feasibility and reach of a novel interactive, media-based approach to CC and PD and to identify the similarities and differences between trial sites in website views, survey responses, online community forum attendance, and opt-out requests.
Background: A set of core competencies in sex- and gender-based women's health (SGWH) has been endorsed by the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), but many residencies lack the resources to implement curricula and clinical assessments that would support achievement of these competencies.
Aim: Develop entrustable professional activities (EPA) to support implementation and assessment of clinical care for SGIM's SGWH Core Competencies.
Program Description: Members of SGIM's SGWH Education Interest Group developed 18 SGWH EPAs for internal medicine residents.