Med Ed Journal Club

The Society for Education in Anesthesia is pleased to announce its medical education journal club.

• May 15, 2025 @ 7:00pm Eastern
• Register: https://sea.memberclicks.net/meded0525

The articles for discussion will be posted on this web page once decided.

Reading the papers in advance is strongly encouraged for best learning.

May 2025 Articles for Discussion

• Hofkamp MP, Saddawi-Konefka D, Teeter EG, Guldan FG 3rd, Kakazu C, Maggard B, Nasr N, Parra M, Rajagopal A, Ural K, Shaver C, Wolpaw J. Identification, Characterization, and Ranking of Candidate Metrics for Selection to Anesthesiology Residency: An Iterative Survey of Program Directors. J Educ Perioper Med. 2024 Jun 5;26(2):E724. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46374/volxxvi_issue2_hofkamp 
• Johny A, Shenot PJ, Green C, Chisholm L, Riggs S, Jackman SV, et al. Program Directors’ Perspectives on Residency Applications in the Post‒United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 Era: A Case for Standardized Letters of Recommendation? Urology Practice [Internet]. 2024 May 1 [cited 2025 May 8];11(3):577–84. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1097/UPJ.0000000000000556
  

 March 2025 Articles for Discussion

• Kealey, Alayne MD, FRCPC*, †; Naik, Viren N. MD, MEd, MBA, FRCPC‡§.Competency-Based Medical Training in Anesthesiology: Has It Delivered on the Promise of Better Education?. Anesthesia & Analgesia 135(2):p 223-229, August 2022. | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000006091
• Fuller, Skylar L. MD*; Ambardekar, Aditee P. MD, MSEd†; Diachun, Carol Ann B. MD, MSEd‡; Kearney, Matthew D. PhD, MPH§; Long, Timothy R. MD‖; Miller Juve, Amy K. EdD, Med*; Mitchell, John D. MD¶; Woodworth, Glenn E. MD*. Competency-Based Time-Variable Anesthesiology Residency Training: Identification of Problems and Solutions. Anesthesia & Analgesia 138(4):p 848-855, April 2024. | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000006625

 January 2025 Articles for Discussion and Recording

• Sumarli, Alexander N. MD*; Pineda, Lauren S. MS*; Vacaru, Alexandra BS†; Novak, Emily BS†; Brandt, Zachary BS†; Reynoso, Edgardo E. BA*; Applegate, Richard L. II MD, FASA*; McCabe, Melissa D. MD*. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in US Anesthesiology Residency Matching. Anesthesia & Analgesia 139(5):p 913-920, November 2024. | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000007102
• Hastie, Maya J. MD, EdD*; Mittel, Aaron MD*; Raman, Vidya MD, MBA†; Szokol, Joseph MD, JD, MBA‡; Whittington, Robert MD§; Bustillo, Maria MD, FASA‖; Siddiqui, Shahla MD, MSc¶; Straker, Tracey MD, MS, MPH, FASA#; Sakai, Tetsuro MD, PhD, MHA, FASA**; Armstead, Valerie MD, MAUB, DABA, FAAP, FASA††; Wiener-Kronish, Jeanine MD‡‡; Jewitt, Chelcie MBChB§§; Mashour, George A. MD, PhD‖‖. Sexual Harassment in Academic Anesthesiology: A Survey of Prevalence, Sources, Impact, and Recommendations. Anesthesia & Analgesia ():10.1213/ANE.0000000000007282, January 02, 2025. | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000007282

November 2024 Articles for Discussion

• Bleakley, A. (2006), Broadening conceptions of learning in medical education: the message from teamworking. Medical Education, 40: 150-157. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02371.x
• Westli, H.K., Johnsen, B.H., Eid, J. et al. Teamwork skills, shared mental models, and performance in simulated trauma teams: an independent group design. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 18, 47 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-18-47

September 2024 Articles for Discussion

• Berger S, Stalmeijer RE, Marty AP, Berendonk C. Exploring the Impact of Entrustable Professional Activities on Feedback Culture: A Qualitative Study of Anesthesiology Residents and Attendings. Acad Med. 2023 Jul 1;98(7):836-843. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005188. Epub 2023 Jun 23. PMID: 36812061. Published Ahead of Print.
• Siddiqui A, Zhao Z, Pan C, Rudzicz F, Everett T. Deep Learning Model for Automated Trainee Assessment During High-Fidelity Simulation. Acad Med. 2023 Nov 1;98(11):1274-1277. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005290. Epub 2023 Jun 5. PMID: 37882681.

May 2024 Articles for Discussion

• Krzyzaniak, Sara M. MD; Sebok-Syer, Stefanie S. PhD; Akhtar, Saadia MD; Gallahue, Fiona MD. Exploring How House Staff Unions Impact the Program Director-Resident Educational Alliance. Academic Medicine | Published Ahead of Print
• Telio, Summer MD; Ajjawi, Rola PhD; Regehr, Glenn PhD. The “Educational Alliance” as a Framework for Reconceptualizing Feedback in Medical Education. Academic Medicine 90(5):p 609-614, May 2015. | DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000560

January 2024 Articles for Discussion

• Hauer, Karen E. MD; Chesluk, Benjamin PhD; Iobst, William MD; Holmboe, Eric MD; Baron, Robert B. MD; Boscardin, Christy K. PhD; Cate, Olle ten PhD; O’Sullivan, Patricia S. EdD. Reviewing Residents’ Competence: A Qualitative Study of the Role of Clinical Competency Committees in Performance Assessment. Academic Medicine 90(8):p 1084-1092, August 2015. | DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000736
• Karen E. Hauer, Olle ten Cate, Christy K. Boscardin, William Iobst, Eric S. Holmboe, Benjamin Chesluk, Robert B. Baron, Patricia S. O'Sullivan; Ensuring Resident Competence: A Narrative Review of the Literature on Group Decision Making to Inform the Work of Clinical Competency Committees. J Grad Med Educ 1 May 2016; 8 (2): 156–164. doi: https://doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-15-00144.1

November 2023 Articles for Discussion

• Mamede, S, Schmidt, HG. Deliberate reflection and clinical reasoning: Founding ideas and empirical findings. Med Educ. 2023; 57(1): 76-85. doi:10.1111/medu.14863
  
• Blum, R.H., Mai, C.L., Mitchell, J.D. et al. Measuring deliberate reflection in residents: validation and psychometric properties of a measurement tool. BMC Med Educ 23, 606 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04536-2

September 2023 Articles for Discussion and Recording

• Matava CT, Alam F, Kealey A, Bahrey LA, McCreath GA, Walsh CM. The influence of resident and faculty gender on assessments in anesthesia competency-based medical education. Can J Anaesth. 2023 Jun;70(6):978-987. doi: 10.1007/s12630-023-02454-x. Epub 2023 May 10. PMID: 37165126; PMCID: PMC10171726.
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-023-02454-x
• Helliwell LA, Hyland CJ, Gonte MR, Malapati SH, Bain PA, Ranganathan K, Pusic AL. Bias in Surgical Residency Evaluations: A Scoping Review. J Surg Educ. 2023 Jul;80(7):922-947. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2023.04.007. Epub 2023 May 2. PMID: 37142488.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2023.04.007

May 2023 Article for Discussion and Recording

• Lucey, Catherine R. MD; Hauer, Karen E. MD, PhD; Boatright, Dowin MD; Fernandez, Alicia MD. Medical Education’s Wicked Problem: Achieving Equity in Assessment for Medical Learners. Academic Medicine 95(12S):p S98-S108, December 2020.
  https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000003717

March 2023 Articles for Discussion

• Stiegler, M. P., Neelankavil, J. P., Canales, C., & Dhillon, A. (2012). Cognitive errors detected in anaesthesiology: a literature review and pilot study. British journal of anaesthesia, 108(2), 229–235.
  http://doi.org/10.1093/bja/aer387
• Croskerry, P. (2014). Bias: a normal operating characteristic of the diagnosing brain. Diagnosis, 1(1), 23-27.
  http://doi.org/10.1515/dx-2013-0028

January 2023 Articles for Discussion and Recording

• Lockman, J. L., Schwartz, A. J., & Cronholm, P. F. (2017). Working to define professionalism in pediatric anesthesiology: a qualitative study of domains of the expert pediatric anesthesiologist as valued by interdisciplinary stakeholders. Pediatric Anesthesia, 27(2), 137-146.
  https://doi.org/10.1111/pan.13071
  
• Renée E. Stalmeijer, Nancy McNaughton & Walther N. K. A. Van Mook (2014) Using focus groups in medical education research: AMEE Guide No. 91, Medical Teacher, 36:11, 923-939, DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2014.917165
  http://doi.org/10.3109/0142159X.2014.917165 

September 2022 Articles for Discussion and Recording

• Martinelli SM, Chen F, Mcevoy MD, Zvara DA, Schell RM. Utilization of the Flipped Classroom in Anesthesiology Graduate Medical Education: An Initial Survey of Faculty Beliefs and Practices About Active Learning. J Educ Perioper Med. 2018 Jan 1;20(1):E617. PMID: 29928664; PMCID: PMC5991778.
  https://www.seahq.org/assets/docs/VolXX_Issue1_Martinelli.pdf
• Yin W, Fowler LC, Robertson AC. Medical Student Perspectives of Clinical Anesthesia Education in the United States: Current Practices and Recommendations. J Medic Educ Training 2017; 1:023.
  http://www.scientificoajournals.org/pdf/jmet.1023.pdf
• Reference Material:

• Anthony R. Artino Jr., Jeffrey S. La Rochelle, Kent J. Dezee & Hunter Gehlbach (2014) Developing questionnaires for educational research: AMEE Guide No. 87, Medical Teacher, 36:6, 463-474, DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2014.889814
  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/0142159X.2014.889814?needAccess=true

May 2022 Articles for Discussion and Recording

• Ahle SL, Eskender M, Schuller M, Carnes E, Chen X, Koehler J, Willey G, Latif A, Doyle J, Wnuk G, Fryer JP, Mellinger JD, George BC. The Quality of Operative Performance Narrative Feedback: A Retrospective Data Comparison Between End of Rotation Evaluations and Workplace-based Assessments. Ann Surg. 2022 Mar 1;275(3):617-620. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000003907. PMID: 32511125.
• Hassan M. Ahmed, MD; Audrey Dunn Galvin, PhD; Aoife O’Loughlin, MBBCH, MSc; Aisling O’Meachair, BA, MBBCH BAO; Jeffrey B. Cooper, PhD; Richard H. Blum, MD, MSE, FAAP; George Shorten, MD, PhD,  Characterization of Reflective Capacity of Anesthesiology Trainees in an Irish Tertiary Referral Teaching Hospital (2022) Volume 24 - Issue 1- https://www.seahq.org/assets/docs/JEPM/volxxiv/VolXXIV_Issue1_Ahmed.pdf

March 2022 Articles for Discussion

• M. M. Milota, G. J. M. W. van Thiel & J. J. M. van Delden (2019) Narrative medicine as a medical education tool: A systematic review, Medical Teacher, 41:7, 802-810, DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2019.158427
• Selzer, R. (1982). Letters to a young doctor. New York: Simon and Schuster. https://books.google.com/books?id=rZ0zAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT18&pg=PT18#v=onepage&q&f=false

January 2022 Articles for Discussion

• Josh B Kurtz, Michael A Lourie, Elizabeth E Holman, Karri L Grob & Seetha U Monrad (2019) Creating assessments as an active learning strategy: what are students’ perceptions? A mixed methods study, Medical Education Online, 24:1, 1630239, DOI:10.1080/10872981.2019.1630239 Downloadable PDF

• Ellen Lavelle, Jasna Vuk & Carolyn Barber (2013) Twelve tips for getting started using mixed methods in medical education research, Medical Teacher, 35:4, 272-276, DOI:10.3109/0142159X.2013.759645

November 2021 Articles for Discussion

• Castanelli, D. J., Weller, J. M., Molloy, E., & Bearman, M. (2021). How trainees come to trust supervisors in workplace-based assessment. Academic Medicine, Publish Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1097/acm.0000000000004501 
• LaDonna, K. A., Artino, A. R., & Balmer, D. F. (2021). Beyond the guise of saturation: Rigor and Qualitative Interview Data. Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 13(5), 607–611. https://doi.org/10.4300/jgme-d-21-00752.1 
• Sawatsky, A. P., Ratelle, J. T., & Beckman, T. J. (2019). Qualitative research methods in medical education. Anesthesiology, 131(1), 14–22. https://doi.org/10.1097/aln.0000000000002728 

September 2021 Articles for Discussion

• Cook, David A. MD, MHPE; Reed, Darcy A. MD, MPH Appraising the Quality of Medical Education Research Methods, Academic Medicine: August 2015 - Volume 90 - Issue 8 - p 1067-1076
  doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000786
• Regehr, G. (2010), It’s NOT rocket science: rethinking our metaphors for research in health professions education. Medical Education, 44: 31-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2009.03418.x