JGME New Ideas

In this episode, Mary R. C. Haas, MD, MHPE, and Anthony R. Artino Jr, PhD, discuss their Rip Out article from the February 2024 issue of JGME about specific strategies to navigate authorship, especially ethical dilemmas that might arise. Hosted by JGME Editor-in-Chief, Gail M. Sullivan, MD, MPH, this episode provides advice to authors at all stages of their careers, from junior to experienced.

In this episode, Jeremy M. Lipman, MD, and Judith French, PhD, discuss their systematic review of metrics utilized in the selection and prediction of future performance of residents in the United States. They share their findings, like the fact that most metrics used are not backed by evidence, as well as practical advice for program directors to effectively recruit residents where both the resident and the program will thrive.

In this episode, Chavon Onumah, MD, and Matthew G. Tuck, MD, discuss their editorial from the October 2023 issue of JGME, “Everyone Looks the Same in ERAS! Differentiating Between an Increasingly Homogenous Pool of Graduate Medical Education Applicants.” This episode is full of strategies to assure selection of candidates who will be able to thrive in their chosen specialties and programs.

In this episode, Kathleen Rowland, MD, MS, and Lauren Anderson, PhD, MEd, discuss their study of effective Clinical Competency Committees which was conducted as part of the 2022 Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance survey of family medicine residency program directors. They offer practical and actionable advice while discussing creating formal policies, faculty development, focusing on all residents, not just those that may be failing, and psychological safety and data collection.

In this episode, JGME Editor-in-Chief, Gail Sullivan, MD, speaks with a panel of authors, Monica Saxena, MD, JD, Callie Cox Bauer, DO, Alyssa A. Vigliotti, MD, about the repercussions of restrictive laws preventing evidence-based medicine on graduate medical education and what we can do to as physicians, members of the GME community, and as humans who believe in evidence-based medicine to protect the future of care.

In this episode, Matthew G. Tuck, MD, and Rebecca Philipsborn, MD, discuss the intersection of climate health and graduate medical education including the direct effects of climate change on patients, residents, and healthcare systems, as well as the need for educational tools to prepare physicians for future climate-related health problems. This episode is part of the call for papers for a 2024 JGME supplement issue on climate and graduate medical education. 

In this episode, JGME Editor-in-Chief, Gail Sullivan, MD, speaks with Mary Owen, MD, Marghalara Rashid, PhD, and Victor Lopez-Carmen about the health care of Indigenous peoples and graduate medical education. They cover the current state by looking at the research from Dr. Rashid et al’s scoping review and discuss a path forward to a safer and more equitable environment through education and trust building.

In this episode, Michelle Suh, MD, MAT, Marc David Robinson, MD, and Nicole Deiorio, MD, discuss the hidden curriculum around incarcerated patients in graduate medical education and how people can educate trainees and themselves with facts and resources about caring for this vulnerable population. They offer firsthand experience of lessons learned and guidance on how listeners can get involved with advocating for the standard of care these patients deserve.

In this episode, Halah Ibrahim, MD, MEHP, Lalena M. Yarris, MD, MCR, and Harm Peters, MD, MHPE, give a formal welcome to international authors to submit their research for publication that explores teaching and learning in graduate medical education. They discuss the inequities in medicine and publishing in our world, the importance and value of diverse publications, research, and experiences, and JGME’s dedication to provide a more diverse and equitable platform for global knowledge dissemination in graduate medical education.

In this episode, Kathy Andolsek, MD, MPH, Nicole Deiorio, MD, Gail M. Sullivan, MD, MPH, and Judy Brenner, MD, discuss the issue of unmatched US medical school graduates, specifically the roles of graduate medical education and undergraduate medical education in tackling this issue to find solutions. With an increasing number of students not matching in the NRMP Match each year and the need for physicians in the United States, this issue cannot be left unsolved.