Tag Archives: academic medicine

Qualitative Research: How an Educational Project Changed the Way I Think About Research

Joanna L Drowos DO, MPH, MBA

Joanna L Drowos DO, MPH, MBA

Approximately 60 seconds into the jubilation over my acceptance to the prestigious Harvard Macy Institute Course for Educators in the Health Professions, I came to the stark realization that I would now need to develop a scholarly project at my own institution. Though somewhat daunting as a junior faculty member at a very young medical school, this presented an exciting opportunity to gain more knowledge and experience in medical education.

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Leading the Way

Jen Hartmark-Hill, MD

Jen Hartmark-Hill, MD

One of my top priorities for staying involved in health care advocacy is to promote a better future for my students.

As a medical educator, I often ponder the uncomfortable paradox of training medical students to become “ideal” physicians, only to send them out into a far less than ideal health care system upon graduation. Preparing and educating future physicians to lead health care transformation is essential, but we who serve as educators and role models cannot stop there.

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But Names Will Always Hurt Me: School Bullying, Educator-Induced Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Implications for Family Medicine

Ilene Abramson, PhD

Ilene Abramson, PhD

International estimates of overweight/obese youth currently approach 43 million, a figure expected to rise in the coming years. However, pertinent research overwhelmingly addresses physiological aspects of corpulence yet, by contrast, only modestly acknowledges concomitant emotional scars, especially those from bullying.

By definition, bullying is a cluster of actions encompassing name-calling, ridicule, social exclusion, and other forms of harassment instigated by classmates, instructors, and family members toward portly children and adolescents. The psychological effect of this phenomenon is tremendous, as evidenced by the derided student’s toxic coping mechanisms:  dangerous crash diets, suicide ideation, and the victim becoming a bully himself. 

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