Cultivating Connections: An Interprofessional Peer Support Model.

Peer support models have existed for decades in behavioral health care and are being developed for health care professionals to help address high rates of burnout and stress in the health care environment. Such models typically involve individuals from the same profession. With the concurrent increase of interprofessional integrated behavioral health care models, interprofessional peer support seems a viable model.

Gender differences in bullying among internal medicine residents.

Purpose: To describe gender differences in experienced types of bullying, and resulting personal consequences, among internal medicine (IM) residents.

Methods: Participants in this cross-sectional study included 21 212 IM trainees who completed a voluntary survey with their 2016 in-training exam that assessed bullying during residency training. The 2875 (13.

Teaching Health Equity in the Time of COVID-19: a Virtual Look Through the Lens of Structural Racism.

Introduction: In the context of marked health disparities affecting historically marginalized communities, medical schools have an obligation to rapidly scale up COVID-19 education through the lens of structural racism.

Aim: To develop and implement a virtual curriculum on structural racism in a required COVID-19 course for medical students using "just-in-time" training.

Setting: Academic medical institution during the height of COVID-19 in the spring of 2020.

"It's a Little Different for Men"-Sponsorship and Gender in Academic Medicine: a Qualitative Study.

Background: Women remain underrepresented in top leadership positions in academic medicine. In business settings, a person with power and influence actively supporting the career advancement of a junior person is referred to as a sponsor and sponsorship programs have been used to diversify leadership. Little is known about how sponsorship functions in academic medicine.

Empowering future physicians to advocate for health equity: A blueprint for a longitudinal thread in undergraduate medical education.

In light of a growing body of evidence demonstrating pervasive health disparities, medical schools are increasingly incorporating educational programs on social medicine in undergraduate and graduate medical curricula. In 2015, we significantly restructured the cultural competency instruction for medical students at our institution, focusing on achieving greater health equity through caring for vulnerable populations and acknowledging and addressing bias and stereotyping. In order to facilitate educational sustainability while students were immersed in clinical care, a key element of our approach included extending teaching into the clerkship year.

Perspectives of pregnant and postpartum women and obstetric providers to promote healthy lifestyle in pregnancy and after delivery: a qualitative in-depth interview study.

Background: Pregnancy provides an opportunity to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors. This study's aim was to explore the perspectives of pregnant and postpartum women and obstetric providers around behavioral lifestyle changes in pregnancy and postpartum.

Methods: We conducted a qualitative study with pregnant and postpartum patients recruited from 2 prenatal care clinics at an urban, academic hospital in the United States.

Perceived Bullying Among Internal Medicine Residents.

This study uses IM-ITE survey data to characterize the proportion of internal medicine residents in 2016 who self-reported having been bullied during their residency training.

Mentorship Is Not Enough: Exploring Sponsorship and Its Role in Career Advancement in Academic Medicine.

Purpose: To explore how sponsorship functions as a professional relationship in academic medicine.

Method: The authors conducted semistructured interviews with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine faculty in 2016: department chairs (sponsors) and faculty participants of an executive leadership development program (protégés). Using editing analysis style, the authors coded interview transcripts for thematic content; a coding framework and themes were derived using an iterative process.

Awareness of Bullying in Residency: Results of a National Survey of Internal Medicine Program Directors.

Background: Bullying of medical trainees is believed to occur more frequently in medical education than once thought.

Objective: We conducted a survey to understand internal medicine program director (PD) perspectives and awareness about bullying in their residency programs.

Methods: The 2015 Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) annual survey was e-mailed to 368 of 396 PDs with APDIM membership, representing 93% of internal medicine residency programs.