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Hear Ye, Hear Ye!: Podcasting as a Near-Peer Teaching Tool for Medical Students
Charlie Weige Zhao, MD; Sonya E. Zhou, MD; Jeffrey Dewey, MD; Sara Schaefer, MD, MHS; Mariam Aboian, MD, PhD; and Jeremy Moeller, MD, FRCPC
If we surveyed a group of medical students about their top fears, there’s a good chance that their answers would involve public speaking, death, and neurology. Many have experienced neurophobia1—the fear of neurology due to the difficulty of marrying the basic sciences covered in Step 1 with the clinical challenges faced on the wards—and many have been turned off from the field as a result. Prior to graduation from medical school, we (the primary podcast creators, Charlie, and Sonya, fourth-year students at the time) sought to create a limited podcast series focused on placing the basic sciences in clinical context: to tackle neurophobia at our institution...
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Neurology Education at the 2023 AAN Annual Meeting: A Summary of Neurology: Education’s First Year and Recognizing Articles, Individuals, and Educators
Roy Strowd, MD, MEd, MS, FAAN
Neurology: Education first launched in the spring of 2022 and as the 2023 AAN Annual Meeting gets underway, there is so much to be excited about. Over the past year, the journal, its editorial staff, peer reviewers, editorial board, and trainee editorial board members have been hard at work. In this blog, I highlight some of the major milestones from the last year and recognize some of the articles and individuals who have made it happen.
Since the launch of the journal in April 2022, the journal received 146 submissions through February of 2023. This included 65% in the research article categories (e.g., Education Research and Curriculum Innovations), 12% in the non-research categories (e.g., Reviews, Viewpoints, Tweetable Teaching Images, and History of Neurologic and Medical Education), and 23% as a commentary for the Neurology: Education blog site. The first article was accepted in July 2022 and published in September. Since then, the journal has an acceptance rate of 45% and time to first decision of 32 days.
Creating an Anti-Racist Neurologist: Perspective of a Third-Year Neurology Resident
Gitanjali Das, MD
I am a third-year neurology resident at the University of Utah. I started residency in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, two months after the murder of George Floyd. With these historic catalysts for change at the start of my medical career, I expected to witness a shift in the landscape of healthcare. Was I entering a healthcare system that truly valued inclusion, equity, and possibly even anti-racism? Unfortunately, I was disheartened by the ongoing inequity in healthcare and saw limited improvement due to looming structures in place that maintained anti-blackness.
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Roy E. Strowd III, MD, MEd, MS, FAAN
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Department of Neurology,
Department of Internal Medicine,
Section on Hematology and Oncology
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