Making space for stories: promoting physician and medical student well-being through successful medical education storytelling events.

Storytelling events in medical education settings are a powerful way to share stories, build community, promote resilience, and foster well-being, but many educators are unsure how to go about creating an event. This paper outlines practical tips to empower readers to plan and carry out a successful, impactful storytelling event.

Eight Domains of Pediatrician Wellness: A Stakeholder Informed Model.

Background: Physician wellness is important to health care systems and quality patient care. There has been limited research clarifying the physician wellness construct. We aimed to develop a stakeholder-informed model of pediatrician wellness.

The strength of our stories: a qualitative analysis of a multi-institutional GME storytelling event.

: Storytelling is a powerful tool for encouraging reflection and connection among both speakers and listeners. While growing in popularity, studying the benefits of formal oral storytelling events within graduate medical education remains rare. Our research question was: could an oral storytelling event for GME trainees and faculty be an effective approach for promoting well-being and resilience among participants?: We used multiple approaches to gather perspectives from physician participants (storytellers and audience members) at an annual oral storytelling event for residents, fellows, and faculty from seven academic health systems in Minnesota.

Case-based simulation empowering pediatric residents to communicate about diagnostic uncertainty.

Background Uncertainty is ubiquitous in medical practice. The Pediatrics Milestones from the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education state that advanced learners should acknowledge and communicate about clinical uncertainty. If uncertainty is not acknowledged, patient care may suffer.

Bioethics education and resources.

Ethics education based upon everyday ethical dilemmas can help trainees place themselves within the situation and encourage them to reflect on their role and responsibility in reaching its resolution.• Three elements can help augment the bioethics teaching experience: (a) identifying the ethical dilemma, (b) employing methods of ethical analysis, and(c) having knowledge of additional bioethics resources.An increasing number of bioethics resources are available to clinicians, including clinical ethics consultation (CEC) and print and Web-based resources.

Impact of income and income inequality on infant health outcomes in the United States.

Objectives: The goal was to investigate the relationships of income and income inequality with neonatal and infant health outcomes in the United States.

Methods: The 2000-2004 state data were extracted from the Kids Count Data Center. Health indicators included proportion of preterm births (PTBs), proportion of infants with low birth weight (LBW), proportion of infants with very low birth weight (VLBW), and infant mortality rate (IMR).