On a rainy Seattle afternoon, Louise Aronson, M.D., MFA, proposed unleashing a revolution. She spoke to a conference room filled with hundreds of doctors at the 2016 Association for American...
History holds a lesson for Americans still reeling from the 2016 election. The characteristics of true leadership—hard work, resilience and virtue among them—seemed to disappear over the past year
Think academic medicine is stodgy, hidebound or slow to innovate? Think again. Faculty, scientists and administrators of the nation’s teaching hospitals are actually quite progressive and optimistic about the future...
Rutgers Medical School is facing a challenge many medical schools are struggling with: an aging infrastructure and a need to provide more modern facilities for faculty and students. How is...
Cornell's curriculum needed to be updated to reflect the current needs of medical students. It wasn't easy and the change involved much resistance from faculty. The school is now two...
The state slogan of New Mexico is "The Land of Enchantment" but it's also the land of great health disparities. Find out what happened when leaders worked together to change...
Do you spend more time on the EMR than you do on patient care? It's a frustrating problem and emergency medicine resident Laurel Yang of New York-Presbyterian Hospital says something's...
Middle school kids can use calculators when they take a test, so why can't medical students use open books or computers? Art Papier is a dermatologist and medical informaticist who...
Ana Maria Lopez is the associate vice president for Health Equity and Inclusion at University of Utah Health Care. But she says if people look to her alone for answers...
What if you asked faculty to embrace dramatic change but didn't offer any training? As care providers, we take care of patients but didn't have a good system in place...
Our success hinges on our ability to embrace change, says Darrell Kirch, M.D., president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). What will move us into the...
Love to share your work but struggling to find the time? Darshana Shah is the associate dean of faculty affairs and professional development at Marshall University. She describes a unique...
Laura Palmer is a third year medical student at Texas Tech University. While she's all for change, she cautions about what can happen when the pace of that change may...
At Johns Hopkins, there is a focus on faculty. Joseph Cofrancesco Jr., Associate Professor of Medicine and director at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Excellence in Education, describes a unique...
