Experts Whitney Marvin, MD, and Jinoos Yazdany, MD, discuss how to find synergy between work & career to better manage work/life conflicts and avoid burnout as rheumatologists.
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The Role of Empathy in Therapeutic Relationships
I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. I was at a mandatory “training session” on patient communication for all clinicians at my institution. There, I was being coached on how to properly talk to patients. In theory, this isn’t a bad thing—we all need more education on how to facilitate inclusive and equitable conversations with…
Immunology: What Is It Good For?
I was cleaning out an old storage closet in my parents’ house in Florida when I stumbled across some notes I took in medical school. As I leafed through pages and pages of notes filled with doodles and reminders, I found a statement that gave me pause: “Immunology—what is it good for?!” To be honest,…
‘Better Equipped to Serve the College’: A Look at CORC Achievements Through the Pandemic
Outgoing CORC Chair Marcus Snow, MD, FACR, and the College look back on the tremendous achievements made during the past three years, including pandemic care guidance, improved patient access to care and direction through new biosimilars choices.
Ethics Forum: Thoughts on Managing Electronic Communication with Patients
Recent proposals in the U.S. to bill for electronic communication with our patients could be seen as a refreshing but contested attempt to battle burnout rates in the present era. A fee for electronic communications between patients and clinicians also acknowledges the value of the clinician’s time and expertise. But is this ethical? Discussion Burnout…
Reach to Teach: Supporting Clinician Educators in Rheumatology
In a panel at ACR Education Exchange 2023 titled How Division Directors Can Support Clinician Educators, experts presented practical guidance for division directors, clinician educators and aspiring clinician educators.
Is ‘Resilience’ a Positive Descriptive or an Insidious Bias?
Resilience. That word has been living rent free in my head for the past three weeks. And rent free is a bit of understatement. It all began at the end of a very productive clinic, when the trainee and I sat down to discuss our reflections on the interactions with patients that we’d had in…
Large Language Models in Medicine: The potential to reduce workloads, leverage the EMR for better communication & more
Large language models are a type of AI that allows users to generate new content, drawing from a huge dataset to learn how to mimic “natural language” with many possible beneficial applications for this technology in medicine.
Addressing Workforce Shortages Through Public Policy
The ACR responded to a Senate Health Committee request for information with legislative strategies to support healthcare providers and expand the physician and care team pipeline.
Appreciative Rheumatology: Positivity Beyond Serologies
Spam, spam, advertisement, spam … wait wait, what’s this? A small envelope, addressed from Maine. I wonder what this is about? Usually, when I get an envelope this size, it’s a letter from someone trying to sell me something or complain about something I have no control over. So imagine my surprise when I found…
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