Mastering Millennial Mentoring

MITE Monthly Tip: April 2019-Angela M.  Leclerc, PA-C Mastering Millennial Mentoring Generation gaps between teacher and learner are encountered every 10-20 years. Generations are shaped by unique historical circumstances.  Currently, millennials make up approximately 25 % of our workforce and this will increase to 40% and 75% of the workforce…

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Encouraging Reflection to Deepen Learning and Combat Burnout

Encouraging Reflection to Deepen Learning and Combat Burnout-Rebecca Hutchinson, MD Kolb describes 4 stages of experiential learning, the type of adult learning that forms the cornerstone of medical education.1,2 Although all of these steps are important, reflection is believed to be particularly important to create deep or lasting learning.3  Reflection…

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A Compassionate Script

A Compassionate Script-Kathryn Brouillette, MD With stressors abounding of record-level hospital census, the opioid epidemic, flu season, the holiday rush and the day-to-day grind of showing up for work while also managing household IADLs, I hope to offer a little salve for burnout. It is simply compassion, the root meaning…

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Can you really make your brain BIGGER: Using cognitive science to increase your study efficiency and retention

Can you really make your brain BIGGER: Using cognitive science to increase your study efficiency and retention by Jason F. Hine, MD-Emergency Medicine SMHC How are we as clinicians going to keep up with the ever-expanding fund of medical knowledge? The rapid expanse of medical knowledge is a well-recognized reality…

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August Faculty Development: Teaching communication skills for difficult conversations

Teaching communication skills for difficult conversations-Annabelle Rae C. Norwood, MD MMP Geriatrics As professionals working in the medical field, we are often tasked with difficult conversations of delivering bad news, disclosing medical error, or initiating advance care planning and end-of-life discussions with patients and their families. More often than not,…

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June Faculty Development: Teaching Digital/E-Professionalism-Reflections for deepening understanding of professional identity on social media

Teaching Digital/E-Professionalism:  Reflections for deepening understanding of professional identity on social media Nicholas Knowland, TUSM-Maine Track Program, M18 Ensuring the public trust in the medical profession is the reason for promoting professionalism as a key component of medical education. Therefore medical curricula place significant emphasis on the development of professional…

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May Faculty Development: The Art of Retention

The Art of Retention Karyn King TUSM-MMC, M18 It’s midnight the night before a final exam and you’re sitting in front of a pile of notes that you half-heartedly studied while watching the entire series of Friends (again) during the past four weeks of your histology course. Driven by caffeine and…

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