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For Academic Institutions, Silence is Golden

Sensible Medicine

When a university or academic medical center speaks as an institution, especially when targeting an individual voicing unpopular or contrarian views, the effect will be to intimidate and silence diverse voices, particularly those that do not enjoy tenure or other protections. This is backwards.

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Supporting Third Stage Academic Medicine Physicians

Sensible Medicine

The career of the academic medicine doctor nicely breaks down into three parts. The first part, beginning right after training, is spent honing a craft and working to establish an academic niche: clinical excellence, research, education, or administration. In phase two, that early work pays off. This Substack is reader-supported.

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Mandrola Chooses a Favorite Academic Article

Sensible Medicine

Words that pop into my head when thinking about the academic literature: vast, insipid, repetitive, Sisyphus. He had grown the once small Circulation--Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes into a prominent journal in the academic cardiology space. This sentence came seven years before social media and a virus shredded our norms.

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The Alfred Intensive Care Academic Centre

Intensive Blog

Discover collaboration, career opportunities and education possibilities with The Alfred Intensive Care Academic Centre. The post The Alfred Intensive Care Academic Centre appeared first on INTENSIVE. Stay connected and keep checking in for all the latest updates, research, insights and news. Bookmark us and stay in touch.

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Fear and Opioids in Academic Medicine

Sensible Medicine

Respect for the standards by which one is judged is adaptive in academic medicine. The fact that these interactions rattled me is not surprising. I did not gain entry to medical school and attain the rank of professor by rebelling against the powerful.

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SGEM#460: Why Do I Feel Like, Somebody’s Watching Me – CHARTWatch to Predict Clinical Deterioration

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

CMAJ September 2024 Population: Patients admitted to the General Internal Medicine (GIM) unit of an academic medical center Clinical evaluation of a machine learning–based early warning system for patient deterioration.

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Staff retention in the ED

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Retention of doctors in emergency medicine: a scoping review of the academic literature. A scoping review of retention in ED showed several factors associated with retention, but these studies dont say what is most important or why. Image adapted from: Darbyshire D, Brewster L, Isba R, Body R, Basit U, Goodwin D. Emerg Med J. Epub 2021 Jun 3.