"Bridging The Gap" Medical Degree Preparatory Program (EMDP2) Military Students Provide Leadership and Mentorship to Classmates.

Introduction: The lack of adequate diverse representation (racially, socioeconomically, gender, second career applicants, student parents, etc.) within secondary education in the United States has proven to be a challenging and complex, multifaceted problem, and despite ongoing efforts, one that continues to remain unsolved. These disparities are well known and documented at all levels of education.

Medical Student Experiences in Operation Bushmaster 2019: "I Now See Myself as Equal Parts Physician and Leader.".

Introduction: Operation Bushmaster, a 5-day high-fidelity medical practicum bringing together fourth-year medical students, graduate nursing students, international students, and physicians and other medical professionals in emergency and operational medicine from across the world, is the capstone event of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences's Military Unique Curriculum. It is designed to simultaneously test students' medical knowledge, leadership skills, and grace under fire. For many students, this experience represents one of the first times that they concurrently inhabit the dual roles of military officer and (soon-to-be) physician.

Learning Beyond the Basics of Cadaveric Dissection: a Qualitative Analysis of Non-academic Learning in Anatomy Education.

Rapidly advancing technologies have undeniably altered how medical education is taught; the anatomy lab is no exception. With a recent shift away from traditional cadaveric dissection and towards technology-based learning methods, medical educators are left wondering what students learn beyond the basics of anatomy during their course of human dissection. Especially considering the recent dramatic changes to the way medical education is conducted in the new era of a global pandemic, we must ensure students are not missing learning experiences that are critical to their development as future physicians.

From College Graduate to Physician: Professional Identity Formation.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. A newly matriculated medical student must transition from college student to physician in four short years.

"It's Okay to Say 'I Don't Know'": Medical Students Use Transformative Thinking to Cope with Ambiguity and Uncertainty.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Uncertainty refers to the internal tension of not fully knowing or understanding a situation and is a concept that physicians must learn to deal with in order to become an effective provider.

Threshold Concepts in a Literary Magazine Produced by Health Care Students.

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Threshold Concepts in Medical Education.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. - The theory of Threshold Concepts (TC) proposes that there are ideas necessary for a student to learn which enable them to think like a professional.

Defining Medical Professionalism Across the Years of Training and Experience at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Background: Many medical institutions have moved forward with curricular objectives aimed at teaching professionalism, but the question remains: are we teaching the most appropriate content at the most opportune times to maximize sustained learning? The students' point of view of professionalism is helpful in addressing this question.

Aim: To describe the views of professionalism held by students and faculty at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Methods: In e-mailed surveys, students and faculty free-texted the three most important characteristics of a professional.

Prevalence of life-threatening conditions in children.

Objective: We estimated the prevalence of children with life-threatening conditions (LTC) cared for in the military health system (MHS) in response to a Congressional inquiry and to inform program planning.

Methods: We developed a case definition of LTC, using the concept ''death trajectory''(1,2) to define our cases. We conducted an unduplicated count of children with LTC in the MHS database during FY 2001/FY 2002 using selected ICD-9 codes based on our case definition.

Advancing a partnership: patients, families, and medical educators.

Background: Medical educators must impart not only an immense quantity of knowledge and technical skills but also an essential collection of values, attitudes, and ways of relating that fall under the rubric of professionalism. Along with technical skills and knowledge, becoming a physician requires caring about patients and interacting in ways that meet practical needs.

Summary: One way to meet the challenges of teaching about professionalism and communication is to involve experienced patients and families as partners in education.