Flipped classrooms are becoming more and more popular with educators in the past few years. The concept is to teach the basics online and use face-to-face classroom and, in medicine, clinical time for more complex synthesis and application of knowledge and skills. I interviewed Benjamin R. Doolittle, MD, [...]
Editor’s Note: This post was previously published in Insights on Residency Training, which is hosted by NEJM Journal Watch. Joseph Cooper, MD, is a Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania. One of the most respected and skilled clinician-educators (and, of course, [...]
Editor’s Note: This post was previously published on NEJM Resident 360, a product of NEJM Group, a division of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Imagine the crisp starched fabric and the bright reflection of the afternoon sun as you run your index finger over the embroidered writing, “M.D.” This is [...]
Time and again, psychological studies show that one of the main differences between weak and strong students is metacognition (a student’s awareness of his or her level of understanding). Good students know when they have mastered material, but weaker students tend to be grossly overconfident. Among medical residents, [...]
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) exam can seem like one more stressor in your already busy life, but taking 30 minutes to review the ABIM tutorial and taking a practice exam in advance may greatly improve your efficiency and will probably decrease your overall stress on [...]
New research reported by Keith Rollag, an expert on leadership and organizations, in Harvard Business Review, suggests that in new situations, "the more questions new employees ask and the more help they seek, the better they perform” and that executives looking back on their first few months on [...]