{"title":"Authors’ Response to Letter About “Impostor Phenomenon Among Family Medicine Residency Program Directors: A CERA Study”","authors":"Bharat Gopal, Katherine Fortenberry, Olivia Coskey, Shermeeka Hogans-Matthews, Zoe Herrera","doi":"10.22454/fammed.2024.527925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22454/fammed.2024.527925","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":503980,"journal":{"name":"Family Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140086030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family MedicinePub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2024.894966
Arch G. Mainous
{"title":"The Vexing Problem of Access to Health Care in America: Is Employer-Based Health Insurance the Real Culprit?","authors":"Arch G. Mainous","doi":"10.22454/fammed.2024.894966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22454/fammed.2024.894966","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":503980,"journal":{"name":"Family Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140085039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family MedicinePub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2024.268466
Renée M. Betancourt, Donna Baluchi, Kristina Dortche, Kendall M Campbell, José E. Rodríguez
{"title":"Minority Tax on Medical Students: A Review of the Literature and Mitigation Recommendations","authors":"Renée M. Betancourt, Donna Baluchi, Kristina Dortche, Kendall M Campbell, José E. Rodríguez","doi":"10.22454/fammed.2024.268466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22454/fammed.2024.268466","url":null,"abstract":"Background and Objectives: Accreditation standards for MD- and DO-granting institutions require medical schools to recruit a diverse student body and educate students about diverse groups of patients. The minority tax is a summary of responsibilities assigned to racial and ethnic underrepresented faculty to achieve diversity, equity, and inclusion in medical institutions in addition to their typical academic workload. This article provides a narrative review of medical students’ experiences of the minority tax and recommendations on how medical educators can support an equitable learning environment by eliminating the minority tax.\u0000Methods: We searched the PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus databases, Google Scholar, and medical society websites, blogs, and fora for terms, including minority tax, medical students, and undergraduate medical education. We included publications if they discussed the underrepresented in medicine medical students’ experiences of the minority tax.\u0000Results: Our search yielded six peer-reviewed original research articles and six publications of commentaries, opinion pieces, or news pieces. Students who were underrepresented in medicine reported spending more hours on diversity efforts compared with students who were not underrepresented; moreover, students reported that they had to sacrifice academic excellence in order to fulfill these additional diversity duties.\u0000Conclusions: The minority tax among medical students constitutes an unequitable and unjust barrier to career advancement, and it likely represents an early cause of attrition in the pipeline of underrepresented in medicine academic faculty. Medical educators can enact specific recommendations to eliminate or mitigate the minority tax experience for medical students.","PeriodicalId":503980,"journal":{"name":"Family Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140090448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family MedicinePub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2024.501564
J. R. Pierce
{"title":"Is This the Icehouse?","authors":"J. R. Pierce","doi":"10.22454/fammed.2024.501564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22454/fammed.2024.501564","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":503980,"journal":{"name":"Family Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140082811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family MedicinePub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2024.602109
Sara Bolivar-Wagers
{"title":"Finding My Sense of Belonging","authors":"Sara Bolivar-Wagers","doi":"10.22454/fammed.2024.602109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22454/fammed.2024.602109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":503980,"journal":{"name":"Family Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140085723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family MedicinePub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2024.810082
Renee Crichlow
{"title":"Fear Is a Liar, Hope Is a Muscle, and Gratitude Is a Lever","authors":"Renee Crichlow","doi":"10.22454/fammed.2024.810082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22454/fammed.2024.810082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":503980,"journal":{"name":"Family Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140092378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family MedicinePub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2024.215031
Octavia Amaechi
{"title":"A Rubric to Center Health Equity in Research","authors":"Octavia Amaechi","doi":"10.22454/fammed.2024.215031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22454/fammed.2024.215031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":503980,"journal":{"name":"Family Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139684316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family MedicinePub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2024.190695
A. Blalock, Madison Tluczek, Stacey Pylman
{"title":"Using the Skill of Noticing to Support Empathy for Third-Year Medical Students in Family Medicine","authors":"A. Blalock, Madison Tluczek, Stacey Pylman","doi":"10.22454/fammed.2024.190695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22454/fammed.2024.190695","url":null,"abstract":"Background and Objectives: Previous research has described a waning interest among third-year students to employ empathetic practice along with decreased opportunity to develop empathic communication skills. In this study we sought to address this decline using the skill of noticing (ie, the capacity to attune to specific aspects of practice and interactions) as an intervention for third-year medical students.\u0000Methods: We designed a qualitative study to address the following research question: How can a focused noticing tool encourage empathetic moments during the patient interview for third-year medical students? Eight third-year medical students used the Social Emotional Noticing Tool (SENT) during their 4-week family medicine rotation, then joined a focus group to share their experiences with SENT and articulate barriers and opportunities toward practicing empathy during clerkship.\u0000Results: Student participants (a) described using the tool, including barriers and opportunities; (b) made connections between the practice of noticing using SENT and enacting empathy; and (c) emphasized how enacting empathy in their third year is largely influenced by interactions with clinical faculty.\u0000Conclusions: The use of SENT helped students notice empathy or lack thereof. However, making connections between individual capacity for empathic interactions and the impact of positive or negative role models is necessary. Based on our findings, we encourage the need for shared responsibility among students, faculty and preceptors, and organizations.","PeriodicalId":503980,"journal":{"name":"Family Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139686879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}