R. Logan Jones, chair of the American Medical Association Medical Student Section Committee on Medical Education and a fourth-year medical student at UNMC, co-authored the article with Jesse Burk-Rafel, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Michigan Medical School and the primary representative for the AAMC Organization of Student Representatives; and Janice L. Farlow, an eighth-year M.D., Ph.D. student at the Indiana University School of Medicine, who serves on the AAMC board of directors.Jones will also be honored with a Medical Student Research Award at the 2017 Internal Medicine Research Awards Grand Rounds on June 2, for his work with the Division of Infectious Diseases.
Over 200 letters to the editor were received after Academic Medicine issued a call for letters from medical students or residents on topics ranging from curricular changes to the learning environment. The three authors summarized the letters in their paper titled "Engaging Learners to Advance Medical Education."
"There could be more purposeful engagement of students in this discussion but what ends up happening is that students are brought in after the ball has already started rolling on changes," Jones said. "As the consumers of education, ensuring that learners are at the table for discussions on how education is shaped for the future is critical."
Authors also noted one topic stood out among the letters – the issue of burnout.
Read the paper at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28198724