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Rayaz H, Yedavalli V, Sair H, Sharma G, Rowan NR, Tackett S, Infosino A, Nabipour S, Kothari P, Levine R, Ishii M, Yousem D, Agrawal Y, Skarupski K, Faraday N, Lee JK, Brady M. Staying Virtual: A Survey Study of the Virtual Lecture Experience in Academic Medicine. Anesth Analg 2024; 138:1020-1030. [PMID: 37115722 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000006490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Increasing clinical demands can adversely impact academic advancement, including the ability to deliver lectures and disseminate scholarly work. The virtual lecture platform became mainstream during the height of the coronavirus-19 pandemic. Lessons learned from this period may offer insight into supporting academic productivity among physicians who must balance multiple demands, including high clinical workloads and family care responsibilities. We evaluated perceptions on delivering virtual lectures to determine whether virtual venues merit continuation beyond the pandemic's initial phase and whether these perceptions differ by gender and rank. METHODS In a survey study, faculty who spoke in 1 of 3 virtual lecture programs in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Otolaryngology, and Radiology at a university hospital in 2020 to 2022 were queried about their experience. Speakers' motivations to lecture virtually and the perceived advantages and disadvantages of virtual and in-person lectures were analyzed using descriptive statistics and qualitative analyses. RESULTS Seventy-two of 95 (76%) faculty members responded (40% women, 38% men, and 22% gender undisclosed). Virtual lectures supported the speakers "a lot" to "extremely" with the following goals: enhancing one's reputation and credibility (76%), networking (70%), receiving feedback (63%), and advancing prospects for promotion (59%). Virtual programs also increased the speakers' sense of accomplishment (70%) and professional optimism (61%) by at least "a lot," including instructors and assistant professors who previously had difficulty obtaining invitations to speak outside their institution. Many respondents had declined prior invitations to speak in-person due to clinical workload (66%) and family care responsibilities (58%). Previous opportunities to lecture in-person were also refused due to finances (39%), teaching (26%), and research (19%) requirements, personal medical conditions or disabilities (9%), and religious obligations (5%). Promotion was a stronger motivating factor to lecture virtually for instructors and assistant professors than for associate and full professors. By contrast, disseminating work and ideas was a stronger motivator for associate and full professors. Associate and full professors also reported greater improvement in work-related well-being than earlier career faculty from the virtual lecture experience. Very few differences were found by gender. CONCLUSIONS Virtual lecture programs support faculty who might not otherwise have the opportunity to lecture in-person due to multiple constraints. To increase the dissemination of scholarly work and expand opportunities to all faculty, virtual lectures should continue even as in-person venues are reestablished.
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- Hassan Rayaz
- From the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
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- Radiology, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Baltimore, Maryland
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- Radiology, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Medicine, Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Division of Cardiology, JHU, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Departments of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
- Neurological Surgery, JHU, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, JHU, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
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- Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, JHU, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Departments of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
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- Radiology, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Baltimore, Maryland
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- Departments of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
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- From the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
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- From the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
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- From the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
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Collazo A, Walcher CM, Campbell KM. Underrepresented in medicine (URiM) faculty development: Trends in biomedical database publication. J Natl Med Assoc 2024; 116:165-169. [PMID: 38220585 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnma.2024.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2023] [Revised: 10/03/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
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BACKGROUND Biomedical databases create an educational platform that allows institutions to share innovations and research discoveries. Identifying literature in biomedical databases that inform the faculty development experiences of faculty underrepresented in medicine (URiM) can help institutions identify resources to promote career advancement for this group. The authors sought to determine biomedical database trends in publications related to faculty development experiences of URiM faculty over the last twenty years. METHODS An electronic search for literature published between January 2003 to Dec 2022 was conducted in the databases CINAHL, PubMed, Scopus, and PsycInfo using keywords underrepresented minority, faculty development, career development, professional development, academic medicine, and workforce in the title, abstract, or body of the manuscript. Growth rates were calculated for each database. The statistical significance difference in median numbers of publication per database was evaluated using Krusksal Wallis and Dunn's test post hoc. RESULTS Search results found 1516 publications over the twenty-year period. Scopus published the most literature with 1,372 publications with a mean number of 68.6 per year (SD 83.47). Both Scopus and PubMed had increased growth rates at 41% and 25%, respectively. There were statistically significant differences in median publication numbers between Scopus, CINAHL, and PsycInfo (p < 0.001) but not PubMed (p 0.062). CONCLUSION Trends in publications related to URiM faculty development have increased over the last twenty years, most noted in the Scopus and PubMed biomedical databases.
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- Ashley Collazo
- University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX 77555-1123, United States
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- University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX 77555-1123, United States
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- University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX 77555-1123, United States.
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Pereira RI, Diaz-Thomas A, Hinton A, Myers AK. A call to action following the US Supreme Court affirmative action ruling. Lancet 2024; 403:332-335. [PMID: 38104576 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(23)02700-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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- Rocio I Pereira
- Denver Health Medicine Service, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, Denver, CO, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA.
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Einstein, Bronx, NY, USA; Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell, Hempstead, NY, USA
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