Examining Scientific Inquiry of Queerness in Medical Education: A Queer Reading.

The language of medicine (i.e., biomedical discourse) represents queerness as pathological, yet it is this same discourse medical education researchers use to that narrative.

Meeting the needs of clinician-educators: An innovative faculty development community of practice.

Background: Requirements for faculty development for clinician-educators continue to increase. The number of faculty with experience delivering faculty development, however, remains limited. To overcome our deficit of faculty developers, we created a train-the-trainer programme.

Harnessing Followership to Empower Graduate Medical Education Trainees.

Followership is the leadership practiced by individuals who are in positions of responsibility without authority, whereby they exert their influence to help execute the vision of their leaders. The central principle of followership is a commitment to actively support leaders and organizations. Without effective followers, organizations flounder, decision-making lies only at the top echelons, and plans are either incompletely executed or not executed at all.

Ten Leadership Principles from the Military Applied to Critical Care.

Core military leadership principles associated with success during wartime have previously translated to success in the civilian business and healthcare sectors. A review of these principles may be particularly valuable during times of increased and sustained stress in the intensive care unit. In this perspective paper, we provide an overview of 10 of these principles categorized under the following three essential truths: ) planning is crucial, but adaptability wins the day; ) take care of your people, and your people will take care of everything else; and ) communication is the key to success.

Could application of leader-member exchange theory have saved a residency mentorship program?

Mentorship may offer protégés numerous benefits including improved self-esteem, increased interest in research, and/or enhanced productivity. Without proper planning, reflection, and evaluation, however, mentorship programs may result in undesirable consequences. In this paper we describe a mentorship program designed to improve psychosocial support and professional development for residents, that while initially successful, was terminated due to perceptions of inequity that led to strife among residents and ultimately created a toxic learning climate.

Real time application of whole genome sequencing for outbreak investigation - What is an achievable turnaround time?

Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is increasingly employed in clinical settings, though few assessments of turnaround times (TAT) have been performed in real-time. In this study, WGS was used to investigate an unfolding outbreak of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) among 3 patients in the ICU of a tertiary care hospital. Including overnight culturing, a TAT of just 48.

Case management study Walter Reed Army Medical Center. A 37-year-old soldier with right flank pain.

The objective of this study was to discuss the appropriate diagnostic and treatment approach to an active duty patient presenting with recurrent kidney stones. A 37-year-old active duty infantryman, stationed in Iraq, was evacuated by air to Waiter Reed Army Medical Center for workup of recurrent kidney stones and hypercalcemia. A diagnosis was made and the definitive treatment was performed.