Hot Topics in MedEd The Journal of Graduate Medical Education

In this episode, Gail M. Sullivan, MD, speaks with the creators of the JGME Literature Review Series, Robin Parker, MLIS, Anna MacLeod, PhD, and Lara Varpio, PhD. They discuss the need for understanding literature reviews, how this project came to be, and why there might be a better approach to your medical education question than a systematic review. This series covers 8 influential approaches to knowledge synthesis with 2 articles for each review type: an overview with background information on philosophical foundations, purposes, and expected products for readers and researchers, and a short article with steps that outline the “nuts and bolts” of this type of review. 

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.