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A Primer For The Student Joining The General Thoracic Surgery Service Tomorrow: Primer 2 Of 7., Colin C. Yost, Rohun Bhagat, David Blitzer, Clauden Louis, Jason Han, Fatima G Wilder, Robert A Meguid

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This medical student primer discusses general thoracic surgery, which involves treating pathologies involving all structures in the thorax except the heart, thoracic aorta, great vessels, and spine.

Medical Student Sensitivity Training On The Differences In Sex Development, Paul Endres, Deborah Ziring, Dimitrios Papanagnou

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Physician Executive Leadership (Pel): Expanding Medical School Leadership And Management Education, Gavyn Ooi, Mba, Audra Hugo, Eric Shiuey, Stephanie Beldick, Aaron Bholé, Andrew Lee, Chris Li, Michael Morano, Julia Tonnessen, Michael Zimmerman

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Today’s doctors are expected to fulfill many roles, and yet, traditional medical education does not include the following:

• Interdisciplinary teamwork
• Leadership skills
• Management and business techniques
• Financial knowledge
• Quality improvement
• Information technology
• Systems based approaches

Physician Executive Leadership (PEL) was founded in 2013 at Jefferson’s Sidney Kimmel Medical School to directly address gaps in medical education The PEL curriculum is both student run and student led, informed by student demand and feedback Students can complete the curriculum at the standard level of commitment or be more engaged to earn Distinction The PEL curriculum is centered around six pillars:

• Applied Leadership …

Telemedicine Training In Undergraduate Medical Education: Mixed-Methods Review., Shayan Waseh, Mph, Adam P. Dicker, Md, Phd, Fastro

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BACKGROUND: Telemedicine has grown exponentially in the United States over the past few decades, and contemporary trends in the health care environment are serving to fuel this growth into the future. Therefore, medical schools are learning to incorporate telemedicine competencies into the undergraduate medical education of future physicians so that they can more effectively leverage telemedicine technologies for improving the quality of care, increasing patient access, and reducing health care expense. This review articulates the efforts of allopathic-degree-granting medical schools in the United States to characterize and systematize the learnings that have been generated thus far in the domain of …

A Case Report Of Case Report Pursuit By Medical Student, Jonathan Li, Jennifer Wilson, Wayne Bond Lau

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Medical students often seek case reports as vehicles for academic writing opportunities, conference presentation avenues, and residency/fellowship application highlights. Here we review a case where, due to unfortunate circumstances, a student made a unique diagnosis central to proper patient clinical care, wished to write up the case subsequently, but was ultimately excluded from the final work stemming from the patient case. We review the pitfalls that occurred in the process of pursuing publication of an interesting case, the educational value of pursuing case reports for students, the necessity for strong mentorship in this process, and general principles that medical students …