Background: Internist trainees have traditionally acquired radiology skills in a piecemeal manner, either through elective rotations or through informal “radiology rounds” on inpatient medicine rotations. here is no comprehensive curriculum for teaching basic radiology to internal medicine (IM) residents, and their image interpretation skills are limited (1). Additionally, the rise of the electronic medical record [...]

Background: Mentorship has long been an impactful process in the training of medical students and physicians. It is apparent that young professionals benefit from mentorship, but how to maximize this benefit is unknown. We elected to approach the revitalization of our mentorship program through a 6-month human centered design (HCD) project to form a curriculum [...]

Background: Mentorship and sponsorship (a relationship of professional support and endorsement) are both teachable and learnable skills that are crucial for medical faculties to have in academic medicine. Unfortunately, these skills are rarely formally taught or measured as part of faculty development. Medical education has started to incorporate more structured mentoring (typically by assigning each [...]

Background: Quality Improvement (QI) is a methodology for solving complex systems problems, and QI methods have been adapted from industry and spread widely across healthcare over the past two decades. QI methods are particularly well-suited for examining clinical processes for effectiveness, reliability, and efficiency. However, Design Thinking (DT) is a problem solving methodology that applies [...]

Background: There is recognition by educational regulatory bodies that physicians need to have some level of leadership skills. In 2007 the Residency Review Committee for Family Medicine approved a new requirement for training in leadership during family medicine residency. Seven years later in 2014, the Journal of Graduate Medical Education published the relationship between physician [...]

Background: Mentorship and sponsorship (a relationship of professional support and endorsement), are essential avenues for professional success, combatting burnout, and improving equity and representation of women and URMs in medicine. Unfortunately, traditional measures of mentorship quality and success are one-dimensional and are of limited value; academic medicine rarely teaches menteeship or mentorship skills, relies on [...]