{"title":"Making Progress on Progress Notes.","authors":"Mark W Newman","doi":"10.4300/JGME-D-24-00843.1","DOIUrl":"10.4300/JGME-D-24-00843.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visual Abstract.</p>","PeriodicalId":37886,"journal":{"name":"Journal of graduate medical education","volume":"17 3","pages":"278-280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12168998/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transforming Annual Program Evaluation Reviews: AI-Driven Efficiency and Consistency at a Large Institution.","authors":"Olivia Frederiksen, Hadar Duman","doi":"10.4300/JGME-D-24-00881.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-24-00881.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37886,"journal":{"name":"Journal of graduate medical education","volume":"17 3","pages":"373-374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12168950/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"This Attending is Terrible!\"-Teaching Trainees to Write Evaluation Comments That Make an Impact.","authors":"Cathy Lee-Miller, Vasudha Bhavaraju","doi":"10.4300/JGME-D-24-00822.1","DOIUrl":"10.4300/JGME-D-24-00822.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37886,"journal":{"name":"Journal of graduate medical education","volume":"17 3","pages":"398-399"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12169049/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mallory Davis, Sally A Santen, Benjamin Kinnear, Jaime Jordan, Michael Gottlieb, Anthony R Artino
{"title":"A Practical Guide to Writing Effective Needs Assessments in Graduate Medical Education.","authors":"Mallory Davis, Sally A Santen, Benjamin Kinnear, Jaime Jordan, Michael Gottlieb, Anthony R Artino","doi":"10.4300/JGME-D-25-00338.1","DOIUrl":"10.4300/JGME-D-25-00338.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37886,"journal":{"name":"Journal of graduate medical education","volume":"17 3","pages":"266-270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12169054/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ashley A Dennis, Gordon M Riha, Nathaniel Rieb, Craig E Palm, Simon J Thompson
{"title":"It Takes a Village: Building Educational Networks to Sustainably Support Rural Trauma and Surgical Residency Training.","authors":"Ashley A Dennis, Gordon M Riha, Nathaniel Rieb, Craig E Palm, Simon J Thompson","doi":"10.4300/JGME-D-24-00823.1","DOIUrl":"10.4300/JGME-D-24-00823.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37886,"journal":{"name":"Journal of graduate medical education","volume":"17 3","pages":"394-395"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12168946/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kathryn Burtson, Holly Meyer, Joshua D Hartzell, Nicholas Eisenberg, Brian Elliott, Kelsey Wilson
{"title":"Academic Coaching to Enhance In-Training Examination Performance in Internal Medicine Residency.","authors":"Kathryn Burtson, Holly Meyer, Joshua D Hartzell, Nicholas Eisenberg, Brian Elliott, Kelsey Wilson","doi":"10.4300/JGME-D-24-00825.1","DOIUrl":"10.4300/JGME-D-24-00825.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37886,"journal":{"name":"Journal of graduate medical education","volume":"17 3","pages":"388-389"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12169057/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Early Involvement of Interns in a Quality Improvement Project Enhance Their Quality Improvement Skills?","authors":"Christine Hrach, Richard Mink","doi":"10.4300/JGME-D-24-00614.1","DOIUrl":"10.4300/JGME-D-24-00614.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Background</b> Teaching quality improvement (QI) is required, and earlier exposure might improve QI skills. <b>Objective</b> To examine whether interns assigned to an existing QI project early in training will have increased QI knowledge and confidence at the end of internship and require less supervision to conduct QI activities at the conclusion of residency compared with those who design their own project or join one later. <b>Methods</b> In 2019, all pediatric interns were randomized to joining an ongoing QI project in the second quarter of internship (EARLY; n=16) or joining or creating one by the end of internship (LATER; n=15). QI skills were assessed at the beginning and end of internship using the AQIKS (Assessment of Quality Improvement Knowledge and Skills) and a 9-item QI self-assessment survey. At the end of residency, faculty mentors rated the amount of supervision needed to conduct a QI project using a 5-level scale. <b>Results</b> At baseline, the groups were similar in AQIKS score, self-assessment, and previous QI experience. AQIKS scores increased over the internship year in EARLY (mean improvement 4.57; 95% CI, 1.85-7.30), but not in LATER (1.83; 95% CI, -0.64-4.31). EARLY interns improved in all 9 self-assessment items, whereas those in LATER improved in only 3. At the end of residency, LATER residents generally required less supervision to conduct QI projects compared with EARLY. <b>Conclusions</b> In the short term, assigning interns to a QI project early in internship improved their QI knowledge and confidence but not their ability to conduct QI studies without some supervision at the conclusion of residency.</p>","PeriodicalId":37886,"journal":{"name":"Journal of graduate medical education","volume":"17 3","pages":"353-356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12168971/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimizing Care for the Whole Person-An Intervention to Promote a Holistic Approach to Patient Care.","authors":"Anna Ketan Shah, Paul O'Rourke, Colleen Christmas","doi":"10.4300/JGME-D-24-00850.1","DOIUrl":"10.4300/JGME-D-24-00850.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37886,"journal":{"name":"Journal of graduate medical education","volume":"17 3","pages":"375-376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12169051/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Taylor S Erickson, Robert Frederick, Steven D Pletcher, Aileen Dowden, Dana Dunleavy, Eric J Dobratz
{"title":"Otolaryngology Applicants' Preferences for Virtual vs In-Person Interviews During the 2023-2024 Application Cycle.","authors":"Taylor S Erickson, Robert Frederick, Steven D Pletcher, Aileen Dowden, Dana Dunleavy, Eric J Dobratz","doi":"10.4300/JGME-D-24-00894.1","DOIUrl":"10.4300/JGME-D-24-00894.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Background</b> Since the shift to virtual residency interviews, applicants and programs have reported difficulty distinguishing themselves in a virtual format, reduced exposure to medical campuses, and limited opportunity to establish personal connections. The 2023-2024 application cycle was the first time virtual and in-person interview formats were available in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery (OHNS). Programs offered one or both formats, and in some cases, applicants were given the choice between the 2. <b>Objective</b> To assess the perceptions of OHNS applicants regarding virtual versus in-person interviews during the 2023-2024 application cycle. <b>Methods</b> A 20-question survey was distributed via email through the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to OHNS applicants after Match Day during the 2023-2024 application cycle. The survey consisted of multiple-choice, Likert-scale, and open-ended questions to explore applicant preferences surrounding interview format. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and statistical significance tests (Pearson's chi-square and Fisher's exact tests) to compare responses across different demographic groups. <b>Results</b> The survey achieved a 42% response rate (216 of 511). Of 199 respondents, 144 (72%) preferred in-person interviews. Subgroup comparisons showed no significant differences between gender. While applicants who identify as underrepresented in medicine (URiM) reported a strong preference for in-person interviews 24 of 35 (69%), their rate of preferring virtual interviews was higher than that of applicants who did not identify as URiM (χ<sup>2</sup>=15.5, df=2, <i>P</i>=.001). Of 199 respondents, 152 (76%) preferred allowing individual programs to choose their interview format. <b>Conclusions</b> Overall, OHNS applicants show greater satisfaction with, and preference for, in-person interviews.</p>","PeriodicalId":37886,"journal":{"name":"Journal of graduate medical education","volume":"17 3","pages":"357-361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12168982/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Race and Ethnicity: What Graduate Medical Education Programs Should Know About the Physician Data Initiative's Data Collection and Reporting Standard.","authors":"Pilar Ortega, Renee Bauschke, William McDade","doi":"10.4300/JGME-D-25-00376.1","DOIUrl":"10.4300/JGME-D-25-00376.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37886,"journal":{"name":"Journal of graduate medical education","volume":"17 3","pages":"412-416"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12169021/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}