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Academic Medicine and the Peter Principle Ben White

WEBThe Three-legged Stool. Academic medicine is sometimes described as a three-legged stool, where the department/institution is balanced on the three pillars of clinical care, research, and education. There is a pervasive myth that academic physicians can do it all: be an outstanding clinician, an excellent teacher, and a prodigious researcher.

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Medical Curriculum Development is an Oxymoron Ben White

WEBA few separate paragraphs I've tied together from Curriculum Development for Medical Education: The difference between the ideal approach and the current approach represents a general needs assessment. [A] curriculum can be written, starting with broad or general goals and then moving to specific, measurable objectives. Objectives may …

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Price Transparency and the True Cost of Quality Healthcare

WEBWhen you read healthcare reviews online, so many of the 1-star reviews relate to prices: patients frustrated by high costs or surprised by high bills. It's easy to think that price transparency rules will help. One key problem is that healthcare consumers are intermittently if not completely insulated from the true costs of their care

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The Government Wants Your Input on Consolidation in Healthcare

WEBThe US government--specifically the Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Federal Trade Commission--is asking for public input about consolidation in healthcare. A summary quote from FTC Chair Lina Khan from an article in the WSJ: FTC Chair Lina Khan said that while some private-equity investment …

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ACGME pays increased lip service to physician wellness

WEBBecause actually changing how young doctors are trained or medicine is practiced is a big hairy potentially expensive and undoubtedly difficult problem, the ACGME has opted to abandon doubling down on actual rules governing work hours and instead focused on broad and largely unenforceable mandates on “wellness.”

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Paying Surveys for Doctors Ben White

WEBCurizon has been in the business a long time, but they just completely revamped their website and platform. It’s a trusted site for well-paying healthcare surveys for physicians as well as other healthcare professionals. Five new sign-ups per month will win $100. ZoomRx is also excellent and has a nice app and better/shorter-than-average …

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Patient Satisfaction: A Danger to be Avoided Ben White

WEBDoctors intuitively know that the Yelpification of medicine is bad. But it’s not just toxic to the physician-patient relationship and bad for burnout, it’s actually dangerous. The outsized and misplaced importance of patient satisfaction scores is a perfect embodiment of Goodhart’s law, well-paraphrased as “when a measure becomes a …

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The Private Equity Model in Medicine is Flawed Ben White

WEBAnd for residents, fellows, and those wondering how things are going, here’s my impression: the private equity model in medicine is fundamentally flawed. (I should clarify before we go on that private equity is a financing model and not an operational certainty, though PE-firms do have a well-deserved reputation for corporate-bad-acting in

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Curizon Physician Surveys: Totally Revamped Ben White

WEBCurizon has been in the business a long time, but they just completely revamped their website and platform this month. It’s a trusted site for well-paying healthcare surveys for physicians as well as other healthcare professionals. New sign-ups every month will be entered in a drawing to win $100. If you are at all interested in survey side

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Best Books for Medical School Ben White

WEBIt comes with questions baked in and an additional 500+ online question bank as well. The Lange flashcards are quite good. They’re essentially a concise high-yield review book divided into flashcards with lots of clinical vignettes. This could be enough for you; it honestly was for me.

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Making the Most of PowerScribe Ben White

WEBYou can change the trigger word for AutoText macros from the default “PowerScribe” to something shorter. Tools>Preferences>Dictation>Auto Text voice command. Your default options are PowerScribe, Dictaphone, Macro, and AutoText. Of these, “Macro” is the shortest. You can also click in the textbox and choose/type your own.

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Doctor jobs at “nonprofit” 501(c)(3) hospitals don’t all qualify for

WEBMany people who work at these places would definitely qualify for PSLF. However, the physicians who work for Kaiser are not employed by Kaiser Permanente itself or any of its network nonprofit hospitals. They are employed by various for-profit Permanente Medical Groups. It doesn’t matter if they work at a nonprofit; it matters who pays the bills.

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Best books for psychiatry residents Ben White

WEBPsychiatry Board Review: Pearls of Wisdom is a change of pace and is written in a concise Q&A format. It is neither as consistent nor as thorough as the other review books, but it does contain a lot of high-yield facts organized in a quick-read manner. 2. Unlike for Step 1, First Aid for the Psychiatry Boards isn’t the strongest source for

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Luminello Sold to SimplePractice and Now Everything Sucks

WEBLuminello sold to SimplePractice, which is owned by EngageSmart, which is owned by Vista Equity Partners Management. From the press release: “Both SimplePractice and Luminello were founded by clinicians looking to simplify the business of running an independent solo or small group mental health practice,” said Ken Braslow, MD, …

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How to Start a Psychiatry Private Practice Ben White

WEBIt doesn’t need to say much or be complicated (in fact, it’s probably better that it’s simple and straightforward). A focused site will include your name, brief bio/mission statement/practice description, physical address, phone number, fax number, and a link to the patient portal of whatever EHR you choose.

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Studying for the Texas Jurisprudence Exam Ben White

WEBStudying for the Texas Jurisprudence Exam. 10.20.13 // Medicine. Update April 2024: My book is up-to-date and has remained the go-to resource for taking the physician JP exam since its release. Update September 2019: As of 9/1/2019, the TMB has moved the test to be self-administered online, which is great. The price has also …

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The Little White Lies of Radiology Partners Ben White

WEBS&P said it is placing all Rad Partners’ ratings on CreditWatch with negative implications. This reflects “heightened downside risk,” analysts noted, given the potential that RP might default on its loans or engage in a distressed exchange in 2024. The American College of Radiology runs a large and presumably quite profitable job forum.

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How to write your personal statement for ERAS/residency …

WEBWrite more than one. Tell your story from multiple angles and see which one comes out on top. Often your first essay is not the best. Consider explaining gaps in your application (leave of absence, course failure, low Step 1) If there are particular programs you are desperate for, you may consider tailoring your statement for them.

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