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Resources for Job Searches
Searching for your first job can be an incredibly exciting time. After years (and years) of training, it’s finally time to call yourself an attending. But alongside this excitement, it is easy to feel overwhelmed and anxious about the prospect of a job hunt. After...
Shifting the Clinic Precepting Script: Why It’s Important and How You Can Do It
Introduction The educational experience in the outpatient clinic is an important part of a fellow’s education since fellowship graduates can spend a significant amount of time in the ambulatory setting. Despite this, pulmonary and critical care medicine (PCCM)...
Setting Yourself Up for Success: Tips to Avoid and Navigate Burnout
Have you ever been burned out? When I led wellness groups in the past, I used to open with this question. Since the pandemic, I skip ahead to “How do you know when you are burned out?” Nearly everyone has experienced some form of burnout over the past 2.5 years,...
Tips and Tricks for Giving Engaging Large Group Lectures
No matter how much we pivot towards simulation-based education or asynchronous learning, the traditional large group lectures still make up a core of any fellowship training program. Therefore, it is imperative for educators to acquire, maintain and develop the skills...
Leveraging Educational Videos as Learning Tools
Is it time to delete PowerPoint and sign up for TikTok? The landscape of medical education is changing, and with increasing use of virtual learning, asynchronous content and self-directed curricula, the traditional “PowerPoint presentation-at-a-podium” might be moving...
Tips for Maintaining Your Curriculum Vitae and What It Says About You
Whether you are looking for a new job or a promotion, your curriculum vitae (CV) will be the backbone of your application. A prospective employee’s CV is often the first document an employer sees. Not only does it highlight your achievements, but it can also frame...
Lighting up the Screen: Tips for Trainees for a Successful Virtual Interview
There is a difference between seeing a picture of a great painting and studying it right before your eyes, smelling a plate of pasta vs eating it, and similarly, interviewing for fellowship virtually rather than in-person. For the past two years applicants and...
Best Practices for the Concurrent Classroom Educator
For over a decade, health professions educators have called for a pedagogical revolution to disrupt traditional medical education curricula with tech-enhanced innovations. When compared to traditional face-to-face (F2F) models, high-quality tele- and web-based...
Faculty Development: What Is Out There and How To Decide What Is Worth Your Time
Have you been feeling like something is missing from your academic life? Are you trying to get to the next level in your career? If you answered yes, you’re not alone. Indeed, your division and department heads are probably wanting more for all their faculty members....
Recognizing and Celebrating Fellows and Faculty: The Value of a Simple “Thank You”
Many large corporations have systems in place to recognize and celebrate employees beyond monetary rewards and in ways that promote recruitment and retention, such as enabling an informal recognition culture. Examples include bringing attention to accomplishments...
