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The Paperwork Demands for Academic Medical Teaching Are OUT OF CONTROL • July 22, 2022
Why all caps in the above title? It’s to call attention to a problem that’s getting worse each year in academic medicine, especially when it involves teaching or talks. The requirement to submit a veritable truckload of forms, documents, attestations, and summaries, all due months before the actual event. Let’s explore in more detail what this might […]
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Uncertainty in Medicine — The “July Effect” and Beyond • August 4, 2022 • Khalid A. Shalaby, MBBCh
When I first started residency, I was uncertain and hesitant with most of my clinical decisions. As medical students, we gain considerable knowledge through our medical school curriculum. But gaining knowledge and applying it to practice are two different sets of skills. Because I followed medical school graduation by a hiatus doing bench research, I […]
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Podcast 297: Forget about all that vitamin D testing!! • July 28, 2022
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE HERE. THE USUAL AUDIO FILE IS AVAILABLE BELOW Steven Cummings has co-written a take-no-prisoners editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine. The topic? Vitamin D supplements. The conclusion? “…providers should stop screening for 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels or recommending vitamin D supplements, and people should stop taking vitamin D […]
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