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A Framework for Residency Application Support: The Impact of a Mandatory Career Advising and Professional Development Course

Objectives: The residency application process has become increasingly complex, with factors like holistic review, specialty signaling, and multiple application services posing new challenges for medical schools seeking to offer personalized support to students. In addition, fourth-year students often quickly dive into demanding externships, which make it challenging to access residency…

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Supporting Effective Work-Life Integration for Women in Academic Medicine: An Innovative Initiative for Physicians and Scientists with Caregiving Responsibilities

Objectives: Integrating the professional responsibilities of academic medicine with the demands of caregiving is a challenge that often weighs disproportionately on women. Supporting women caregivers in academia has been shown to benefit their professional development and prevent burnout. An initiative to support women faculty and trainees with caregiving responsibilities was…

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Development and Implementation of a Hospitalist Faculty Development Program in a University- and Community-Based Multihospital System

Objectives: Robust faculty development (FD) is an emerging area of focus within hospital medicine, a relatively new specialty with limited mentorship infrastructure to find and develop a professional niche. There are few descriptions in the literature of establishing and evaluating an FD program with strategies to evaluate success, invite collaboration,…

Improving Patient Outcomes through Better CME Design

SMA attended the ACCME’s #LearnToThrive2023 conference in Chicago this month, which included more than 600 educational professionals, inspirational keynote speakers and health system leaders from around the world. The conference served as a catalyst for progress in medical education and highlighted the importance of embracing innovation, addressing cultural competence, promoting…