Purpose: Competency-based time-variable (CBTV) graduate medical education (GME) has been implemented in Canada, Europe, and the United States, yet its perceived value has not been explored. Promotion in Place (PIP) is a CBTV GME program in which residents graduating early advance to attending status with "sheltered independence" until the standard graduation date. This study describes perceived value of CBTV GME and PIP at Mass General Brigham by capturing diverse stakeholder perspectives.
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November 2024
Developing and maintaining connections with others, or what we refer to as the formation of social ties, may strengthen medical students' sense of belonging in medical school. Social ties play a particularly important role for women medical students as the medical field remains largely dominated by masculine norms. However, forming social ties remains challenging for women in medicine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Workplace learning in critical care settings is complex and challenging. Research has explored learner-, teacher-, and context-related factors that influence medical residents' engagement in critical care workplaces in Western but not in non-Western cultures. This limits our understanding of workplace learning globally and how we can better support resident learning in diverse cultures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhenomenon: Marginalized individuals in medicine face many structural inequities which can have enduring consequences on their progress. Therefore, inequity must be addressed by dismantling underlying unjust policies, environments, and curricula. However, once these injustices have been taken apart, how do we build more just systems from the rubble? Many current strategies to address this question have foundational values of urgency, solutionism, and top-down leadership.
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