The use of podcasts as a tool to teach clinical reasoning: a pseudorandomized and controlled study.

Objectives: Podcasts have emerged as an efficient method for widespread delivery of educational clinical reasoning (CR) content. However, the impact of such podcasts on CR skills has not been established. We set out to determine whether exposure to expert reasoning in a podcast format leads to enhanced CR skills.

Correlation of Coping, Mentorship, and Life Events with Burnout in Internal Medicine Residents.

Physician burnout is a widespread problem. We examined how coping, mentorship, and life events correlated with burnout in Internal Medicine Residents. We performed a cross-sectional study of survey data collected over multiple time points and used Spearman correlation of coping, mentorship, and life events to emotional exhaustion (EE) and cynicism (CYN).

Mentorship of Women in Academic Medicine: a Systematic Review.

Background: Women remain underrepresented in academic medicine, particularly in leadership positions. This lack of women in leadership has been shown to have negative implications for both patient care and educational outcomes. Similarly, the literature demonstrates that female physicians are less likely to have mentors, despite the proven benefits of mentorship for career advancement.

Evaluation of VA Women's Health Fellowships: developing leaders in academic women's health.

Background: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) instituted the VA Women's Health Fellowship (VAWHF) Program in 1994, to accommodate the health needs of increasing numbers of female veterans and to develop academic leaders in women's health. Despite the longevity of the program, it has never been formally evaluated.

Objective: To describe the training environments of VAWHFs and career outcomes of female graduates.