Using Instagram to Engage Learners and Build Community.

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the shift toward using digital means of communication, information sharing, and building community. 1 This phenomenon has manifested in the world of medical education with an increase in educators and learners using social media. While the impacts of X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook have been investigated, there is a paucity of literature on Instagram usage in medical education.

A Timely Problem: Parental Leave During Medical Training.

Shifting demographics and concerns about burnout prevention merit a reexamination of existing structures and policies related to leaves of absence that may be necessary during medical training. In this Invited Commentary, the authors address the issue of parental leave for medical students and residents. Discussion about parental leave for these trainees is not new.

Lifestyle factors and primary care specialty selection: comparing 2012-2013 graduating and matriculating medical students' thoughts on specialty lifestyle.

Purpose: To compare how first-year (MS1) and fourth-year students (MS4) ascribe importance to lifestyle domains and specialty characteristics in specialty selection, and compare students' ratings with their primary care (PC) interest.

Method: In March 2013, MS4s from 11 U.S.

Life-threatening pharyngeal edema after sclerotherapy of oral venous malformations in a patient with blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome.

Background: Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome (BRBNS) is a rare vascular disorder characterized by multiple venous malformations of the skin and internal organs. Oral lesions are very common and occur in over half of the patients with this condition. Sclerotherapy is currently the first-line treatment modality of symptomatic cases due to its high efficacy and low rate of complications.

Primary care, the ROAD less traveled: what first-year medical students want in a specialty.

Purpose: Medical students are increasingly choosing non-primary-care specialties. Students consider lifestyle in selecting their specialty, but how entering medical students perceive lifestyle is unknown. This study investigates how first-year students value or rate lifestyle domains and specialty-selection characteristics and whether their ratings vary by interest in primary care (PC).

"A good career choice for women": female medical students' mentoring experiences: a multi-institutional qualitative study.

Purpose: The career decisions, practice patterns, and approach to patient care of current female students, who make up close to 50% of medical school classes, will have a profound impact on the profession. This study explores the role gender plays in the mentoring experiences of female medical students.

Method: In 2011, the authors conducted focus groups with 48 third- and fourth-year female medical students at four U.

The impact of working part-time on measures of academic productivity among general internists.

Background: There is increased interest in part-time (PT) positions at academic medical centers (AMCs). Faculty and institutional leaders may have concerns about the potential for academic advancement among PT faculty. Our objective was to determine the impact of working PT on measures of academic productivity.

Professional characteristics and job satisfaction among SGIM members: a comparison of part-time and full-time physician members.

Background: As more physicians work part-time (PT), the faculty, institutions, and organizations that represent them should understand the factors that motivate and satisfy these physicians.

Objective: Compare factors associated with job satisfaction among PT and full-time (FT) academic physicians.

Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Part-time physicians...prevalent, connected, and satisfied.

Objective: The health care workforce is evolving and part-time practice is increasing. The objective of this work is to determine the relationship between part-time status, workplace conditions, and physician outcomes.

Design: Minimizing error, maximizing outcome (MEMO) study surveyed generalist physicians and their patients in the upper Midwest and New York City.