A Developmental Approach to Mid-Career Faculty Leadership Training at Two Academic Medical Centers.

Leadership training helps position faculty to guide various aspects of health care and health professions education at academic medical centers. With the increasing complexity of these responsibilities, it is essential that academic medical centers provide leadership skill-development opportunities to faculty. This work describes the structure of two internal mid-career faculty leadership development programs that were created to cultivate future institutional leaders from within the organization.

Questioning Aid for Rich, Real-Time Discussion (QARRD): A Tool to Improve Critical Thinking in Clinical Settings.

Introduction: Critical thinking skills are crucial for health professionals, especially in clinical settings. However, most health professions educators engage learners with only lower-level concepts such as definitions, fact recall, or basic explanations. Employing strategic questioning methods that require learners to use higher-order thinking can help develop clinical reasoning skills.

Recruitment and Retention of Community Preceptors.

Background: Recruiting and retaining community-based pediatricians for teaching medical students has been explored through the lens of preceptors and educational leaders. The purpose of this study was to explore the perspective of pediatric department chairs, a key stakeholder group charged with maintaining teaching capacity among a faculty.

Methods: In 2015, members of the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs and Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics joint task force disseminated a 20-item survey to pediatric department chairs in the United States and Canada.

West Nile virus encephalitis in a child with left-side weakness.

West Nile virus typically causes self-limited fever with flulike symptoms; pediatric cases are rare. We report a unique case involving a 7-year-old girl with left-side weakness and focal temporal lobe findings resembling herpes encephalitis.