Integrating addiction medicine into graduate medical education in primary care: the time has come.

Substance use disorders create an enormous burden of medical, behavioral, and social problems and pose a major and costly public health challenge. Despite the high prevalence of substance use and its consequences, physicians often do not recognize these conditions and, as a result, provide inadequate patient care. At the center of this failure is insufficient training for physicians about substance use disorders.

Jumpstarting Academic Careers: A Workshop and Tools for Career Development in Anesthesiology.

Context: Career development is essential and has the potential to assist in building a sustained faculty within academic departments of Anesthesiology. Career development is essential for growth in academic medicine. Close attention to the details involved in career management, goal setting as part of career planning, and professional networking are key elements.

Using the Affective Domain to Enhance Teaching of the ACGME Competencies in Anesthesiology Training.

Teaching and assessing the advanced competencies will continue to be a challenge. Incorporating new and nontraditional skills into an already complex and challenging clinical curriculum and practice is not easy. This makes development of methods for curricular design, teaching and assessment of anesthesiology resident and fellow performance essential.

Shaping professionalism in pre-clinical medical students: Professionalism and the practice of medicine.

Background: Increasing emphasis is placed on teaching and assessment of professionalism in the continuum of medical education. Consistent and longitudinal instruction and assessment are crucial factors that learners need in order to internalize the tenets of professionalism.

Aim: We aimed to develop a novel longitudinal course in professionalism spanning the first 2 years in a medical curriculum.