Michael Good, M.D., Dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Florida, teaches students and providers to stay focused on patients. Change will work itself out.
How do you break down silos to improve care to underserved populations and improve coordination between medical schools and teaching hospitals? What can we learn from Ghana? In this conversation...
Shana Sandberg with the AAMC's Center for Workforce Studies discusses the new guide for implementing hotspotting. Hear how the tool was developed, and download the guide at www.aamc.org/hotspotter
Carrie Byington, MD, is Vice-dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development at the University of Utah School of Medicine and is concerned about stereotypes that mischaracterize the role of women...
Health care as an industry has found itself at a pivotal "moment of truth" and leaders in academic medicine must step up to the plate to help find solutions during...
What kind of change is coming to health care? Will AMC's close in the coming years? In the face of constrained payments, how will different models thrive? Mike Magill, MD...
Jennifer Salopek is Managing Editor of Wing of Zock, a venue for people in academic medicine to share stories and to help academic medical centers (AMCs) prepare for health care...
Ajay Major is a self-described "medical student activist" and founder/co-Editor in Chief of in-Training.org. In this conversation, Ajay shares how he found his activist side, his goals for in-Training, and...
We all read the Wing of Zock blog but do you know the behind the scenes story? Founder Joanne Conroy, M.D., discusses what it takes to have a successful blog...
When Vivian Lee needed to find innovative tactics for how to reduce costs in the health care system, she looked to an air bag manufacturing plant for inspiration.
How do we prepare Boomers to teach Millennials? Hint: the teacher isn't teaching if the learner isn't learning. Reaching the next generation of medical students: an interview with Kirtly Parker...
What's a great way to capture the idealism of medical students? Hotspotting. Find out how students are helping the country's most at risk patients. An interview with Clese Erikson with...
What is the "change imperative?" What are the most vexing problems facing academic medicine? Why MOOCs (massive open online courses) aren't threats, they're opportunities. Vivian Lee, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A, senior...