Facilitated transitions: coaching to improve the medical school to residency continuum.

: Current efforts incompletely address the educational, social, and developmental aspects of a learner's transition from medical school to residency.: To determine the feasibility and acceptability of a transition to residency (TTR) coaching program.: In March 2019, we designed, implemented, and evaluated a TTR coaching program for students who matched into residency programs at our institution.

Academic coaching: Insights from the medical student's perspective.

With the growing recognition of the role of coaching in competency-based medical education, many medical education training programs are investing significant resources into developing coaching programs. However, there is a lack of rigorous research on academic coaching programs in medical education and recommended coaching practices are based on expert opinion without incorporating the student perspective. The aim of this study was to investigate factors that affect a students' perception of a successful coaching experience.

Establishing the First Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program in Ghana.

As life expectancy in Ghana improves, a large and growing population of older adults require healthcare. Despite governmental support for the care of older adults, there have been no geriatricians and no in-country educational path for those desiring to become specialists in this field. In fact, 23 of 54 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lack even a single geriatrician.

Scaling Up a Global Health and Disparities Path of Excellence Pilot Program at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Problem: Transforming medical school curricula to train physicians to better address society's needs is a complex task, as students must develop expertise in areas other than clinical medicine.

Approach: In 2010, the University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) launched the Global Health and Disparities (GHD) Path of Excellence as part of a larger curriculum transformation. The GHD Path is a co-curriculum with the goal of ameliorating health disparities in the United States and abroad.

Scholarly Concentration Program Development: A Generalizable, Data-Driven Approach.

Purpose: Scholarly concentration programs-also known as scholarly projects, pathways, tracks, or pursuits-are increasingly common in U.S. medical schools.