Fifteen educational innovations in academic medicine are described in relation to 5
environmental trends. The first trend, demands for increased clinical productivity, has …

Increasing attention has been focused on developing professionalism in medical school
graduates. Unfortunately, the culture of academic medical centers and the behaviors that …

Admissions and personnel decisions rely on stable predictor–criterion relationships. The
authors studied the validity of Big Five personality factors and their facets for predicting …

Purpose To explore the congruence between students' and clerkship directors' perceptions
and attributions of students' struggles during the transition to clerkships. Method Focus …

Modern-day discourse on medical professionalism has largely been dominated by a
“nostalgic” view, emphasizing individual motives and behaviors. Shaped by a defining …

Purpose Educators have begun to question whether medical students are adequately
prepared for the core clerkships. Inadequate preclerkship preparation may hinder learning …

Background and objectives The training of caring physicians represents an important goal of
medical education. Little is known however, on whether medical faculty constitute good role …

Objectives Decentralizing medical education to community settings has raised issues of
instructional quality. The need to evaluate community‐based instruction accents the need to …

The thirteen essays in Educating for Professionalism examine the often conflicting ethical,
social, emotional, and intellectual messages that medical institutions send to students about …

The topic of curriculum reform has received an enormous amount of attention in the field of
dental education. While recently established dental schools benefit from the evolution of …