The Performance and Trajectory of Medical Students With Disabilities: Results From a Multisite, Multicohort Study.

Purpose: To conduct a post-Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 multisite, multicohort study called the Pathways Project to assess the performance and trajectory of medical students with disabilities (SWDs).

Method: From June to December 2020, the authors conducted a matched cohort study of SWDs and nondisabled controls from 2 graduating cohorts (2018 and 2019) across 11 U.S.

Tips for Building a Community for Incoming Medical Students Virtually in the COVID-19 Era.

Unlabelled: A sense of community benefits medical trainees by preserving mental well-being, nurturing collegiality and mentorship, and grounding ties with partnering organizations and services. Within medical school, building these support relationships often begins shortly after matriculation. In the current pandemic and the accompanying shift to a virtual class format, we believe that a dedicated effort to foster this sense of community is crucial for students who otherwise may feel untethered to their new learning environment.

Burnout Among Beginning First-Year Students from Three Health Professional Training Programs.

The study objective was to learn about burnout prevalence among beginning first-year students from three health professional programs-Advance Practice Registered Nursing (APRN), Medicine, and Physician Associate (PA) training. All first-year students were invited to anonymously complete a survey measuring burnout. Subscales for exhaustion and disengagement together accounted for burnout.

Readiness for Medical School: a Radical Proposal.

Readiness for medical school, like readiness for reading, includes physiological, psychological, educational, and sociological aspects of growth. Full cognitive and neurodevelopment including higher levels of adult thought order occur generally towards the ends of the third decade. Earlier patient care experiences and an understanding of the social and structural determinants of health demand some experiences in the world.

Renal stone composed of ritonavir.

Nephrolithiasis is a well-known side effect of many HIV protease inhibitors. However, there have not been reports of stones associated with ritonavir use. Here, we report the case of a 33-year-old woman with HIV on antiretroviral therapy who presented with sharp left flank pain and passed a stone that was later found to contain only ritonavir.

When patients hurt us.

In this thoughtful article, medical educators in various stages of their careers (resident, mid-career clinician-educators, medical school deans) reflect upon increasing reports of harassment and mistreatment of trainees by patients. In addition to providing a general overview of the limited literature on this topic, the authors describe their own experience collecting information on trainee mistreatment by patients at their institution. They explore the universal difficulty that educators face regarding how to best address this mistreatment and support both faculty and trainees.

Gender Disparities in Medical Student Research Awards: A 13-Year Study From the Yale School of Medicine.

Purpose: The Liaison Committee on Medical Education mandates instruction in research conduct, and many U.S. medical schools require students to complete a research project.

Power Day: Addressing the Use and Abuse of Power in Medical Training.

Problem: Medical student mistreatment, as well as patient and staff mistreatment by all levels of medical trainees and faculty, is still prevalent in U.S. clinical training.

Passing the torch: a proposed amendment to "A Physician Charter".

A Physician Charter has received widespread attention throughout the medical community since its publication in 2002. The Charter, which lays out three principles and 10 commitments that "reaffirm the fundamental and universal principles and values of medical professionalism …" omits an essential principle and its corollary commitment. That fourth principle, essential to the successful perpetuation of the aims of the Charter, we call the Principle of Generativity: Physicians must contribute to the education and development of the next generation of practitioners in order to ensure that the profession lives on and thrives, grounded in its fundamental professional values.

An intervention with third-year medical students to encourage the reporting and management of occupational exposures.

Purpose: Medical students are particularly vulnerable to occupational exposures to blood-borne pathogens because of their inexperience. Although exposure rates for medical students remain high, they often do not report such incidents or seek the proper medical care. The authors describe and evaluate an intervention at the Yale University School of Medicine to prevent and manage occupational exposures among medical students.