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Recommended Reading: May 11—17
Get caught up on the latest articles on professionalism in this week’s Recommended Reading: The author of a new JAMA Internal Medicine commentary discusses how physician specialty societies are dealing with costs. He notes that addressing cost is part of the Physician Charter, which calls on physicians to “be committed to working with other physicians, [...]
Recommended Reading: May 4 – 10
This week’s Recommended Reading includes the latest on professionalism in medical school and Choosing Wisely®: Researchers interviewed medical students to assess the impact of Clinical Reflection Training (CRT) on how students handled professional dilemmas. Students reported that CRT reduced their stress, improved patient care and was a useful part of professional development. On The Health [...]
Reflections on the 2012 Professionalism Article Prize Winners
As our nation continues to grapple with financial and ethical challenges facing its health care system, and provisions of the Affordable Care Act begin to take effect, the third annual ABIM Foundation Professionalism Article Prize serves as a call to physicians and all health care providers to fulfill the principles and commitments of the Physician [...]
Recommended Reading: April 27 – May 3
Learn about Choosing Wisely® in hospice and palliative medicine, along with professionalism in residency training, in this week’s Recommended Reading: The authors of “Five Years’ Time and The Next Five Things for the List of Choosing Wisely” reflect on the evolution of hospice and palliative medicine and discuss research needed to develop another five items [...]
Recommended Reading: April 20-26
This Recommended Reading installment features new articles on conflicts of interest, transitions of care and patient autonomy: The American Medical Student Association has released its 2013 PharmFree Scorecard, which issues letter grades to medical schools based on their conflict of interest policies. A Community Catalyst blog post provides highlights from this year’s PharmFree Scorecard and [...]
Recommended Reading: April 13 – 20
This week’s Recommended Reading features articles on stewardship of resources and online professionalism: Johns Hopkins researchers conducted a randomized-controlled trial to determine whether presenting cost data to providers when they ordered a test affected test ordering. They found that presenting this data to providers resulted in a modest decrease in test ordering. In a recent [...]
Recommended Reading: April 6 – 12
Catch up on the latest Choosing Wisely® articles in this week’s Recommended Reading: In The Recent Reversal of the Growth Trend in MRI: A Harbinger of the Future?, the authors report that MRI utilization rose sharply from 1998 to 2008 then declined from 2008 to 2010. They cite a number of possible causes for the [...]
Recommended Reading: March 30 – April 5
Catch up on the latest literature on professionalism in medical education in this week’s Recommended Reading: The authors of “e-Professionalism: A New Frontier in Medical Education” discuss the challenges posed by e-professionalism, which they define as “attitudes and behaviors that reflect traditional professionalism paradigms but are manifested through digital media.” The study “Narrative medicine as [...]
Recommended Reading: March 23 – 29
Learn about the roles of patients and physicians in managing health care resources in this week’s Recommended Reading: In “Educating Physicians about Responsible Management of Finite Resources,” ABIM/ABIM Foundation President & CEO Christine K. Cassel, MD and co-authors advocate for physician education in “health care waste, abuse, fraud, and the ethical underpinnings of physician decisions, [...]
Recommended Reading: March 16 – 22
This week’s Recommended Reading spotlights the latest research on medical professionalism in education and practice: Faculty from the Department of Surgery at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill examined the impact of a six-week professionalism curriculum on the attitudes, knowledge and behaviors of an academic plastic surgery practice. The course was comprised of lectures, [...]
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