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Adherence Versus Compliance, Tasaduq H. Mir

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Adherence and compliance are 2 words that are used interchangeably by medical professionals. When we come across a patient who is not taking their medication as advised, we say the patient is non-compliant when the truth is that the patient is non-adherent. Although the terms are used as if they mean the same thing, the 2 words are different in so many ways. In order to understand the difference, it is important to understand the true meaning of these words. According to the literature, “adherence is an active choice of patients to follow through with the prescribed treatment while taking …

Interprofessional Education: Models That Promote Shared Clinical Decision-Making, James D. Nash

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Interprofessional education continues to be emphasized as an area that needs to continue to grow by agencies that accredit higher education professional degree programs. Teams of healthcare professionals need to learn more about each other, collaborate, and understand what matters most to the patient when care is needed in an acute or ambulatory care setting. Settings that promote clinical shared decision-making and collaboration with pharmacists among the team and increase communication between members and the patient will decrease medical errors, increase patient safety, and improve the quality of life for the patient.

The Science Of Learning: Why Learning Theories Matter In Graduate Medical Education, Jacklyn C. Fuller, Melissa E. Woods

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Learning theories are necessary to help inform teaching strategies and promote successful educational outcomes. Having an in-depth knowledge about learning theories and their applicability to teaching and educating healthcare professionals will help support and promote excellence in medical education. Demonstrating an understanding of effective learning theories in the classroom will benefit both educators and trainees, while supporting a collaborative mentor-mentee relationship.

Leadership, Anthony Pearson-Shaver, Evan Layton

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Though they become responsible for leading teams and supervising more junior learners early in their career, physicians receive little formal leadership training. The “see one, do one, teach one” approach to behavioral modeling and mentorship does not serve the modern young physician well. The complex nature of modern healthcare demands that physicians learn to work within the teams they will often come to lead. Within these teams, members often look to physicians to fill leadership roles. This review will examine effective leadership as defined by the business community, review attempts to incorporate leadership training into graduate medical education programs and …

Still Learning: Covid Through The Eyes Of A Medical Student, Alexis Strahan

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

As a first-year medical student when the COVID-19 pandemic found a foothold, I felt an overwhelming amount of emotions that accompanied the pandemic’s spread. Fear, although a reasonable choice, was not the first emotion that I experienced. In fact, it was a general feeling of paralysis. I had not six months prior taken an oath to commit my career and life to the service of the public’s health care needs, yet I could provide little more than the textbook knowledge of biochemistry or genetics from my first semester of learning. My hands felt unarmed and unskilled for the fight. What …

Little Did We Know What We Are Preparing For: Virtual Interviews Before Covid-19, Alina Popa, Scott Kubomoto, Lorra Baldes

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Current circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic require residency programs to conduct virtual interviews. We draw upon our experience with virtual interviews from fall 2019, prior to COVID-19, and propose a potential implementation process for virtual interviewing strategies. We also describe potential pitfalls and strategies to mitigate them.

Management Principles To Drive The Creation Of A 21st Century Medical School, Johannes Vieweg, Francois Sainfort, Julie A. Jacko, Paula S. Wales

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Introduction: There are currently no data, blueprints, best practices, or financial models available to guide the creation of a new medical school. Yet, the United States is experiencing unprecedented growth of new allopathic medical schools.

Findings: This article brings logic to the process. It converts the complexity of what is often regarded as an administrative exercise into the first published framework of management principles. Those principles were then translated into a process map and a financial optimization model. All three elements can be successfully implemented for establishing an accredited, value-driven medical education program that minimizes time from inception to implementation, …

A New Journal To Publish Houses Of Brick: Introducing The Hca Healthcare Journal Of Medicine, Hale Z. Toklu, Bruce Deighton, Graig Donini

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Welcome to the HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine, a new peer-reviewed scientific periodical dedicated to the care and improvement of human life by publishing and disseminating scholarly work focusing on innovation and enhanced quality, developing new knowledge in clinical care, and contributing to research in medical education.