Dec 19, 2017
Medical student Zech Franks remembers a serendipitous encounter with patient continuity at a clinic in Nogales, Arizona. That day, empathy found him. His essay was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the December 2017 issue of Academic Medicine. Read the essay at academicmedicine.org.
Nov 20, 2017
Discussing global health issues in medical education, including the social context of learning, competencies across cultures, and learning in the developing world, are editor-in-chief David Sklar, authors Esther Helmich and Quentin Eichbaum, and medical student Naomi Boyd. This conversation complements the journal's...
Nov 13, 2017
Medical student Arya Shah remembers two seemingly similar patients, who in the end were more different than she first thought, and the lesson they taught her about the value of exploring her feelings instead of hiding them away. Her essay was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the November 2017...
Nov 7, 2017
Medical student Shefali Hegde remembers her first patient, who taught her about the reality of chronic illness, the value of holistic medicine, and why getting to know a patient beyond the clinic is important. Her essay was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the November 2017 issue of...
Oct 24, 2017
“Tell me one thing you learned today,” Dr. Saundra Curry asks each day. What started as a way to remember the many anesthesiology residents who passed through her ORs turned into an opportunity for the author and her residents to reflect on their experiences that day and enhance their learning. Dr. Curry's essay was...