Ben Kinnear

A debate about whether a hot dog counts as a sandwich unlocked new ways for residents to grasp philosophy of science tinyurl.com/bnp3evux #MedEd @midwestmedpeds.bsky.social

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Navigating the Discontinuity Crisis in Medical Education | NEJM Discontinuity negatively affects patients, learners, and health care systems. Changes that create continuity could improve both patient outcomes and the learning environment for medical trainees.

AMAZING paper in @nejm.org on discontinuity in #MedEd

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How to be reviewer 2: Lessons in academic curmudgeonry Academic publishing is both incredibly rewarding for authors and fraught with frustration and challenges. One such challenge is navigating critical peer reviews that can seem demeaning, condescending...

Every wonder how to become a 'Reviewer 2'? We got you covered. #MedEd

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The “Back in My Day” Folly in Medical Education By: Eric Warm MD, MACP “The only constant in life is change.” — Heraclitus “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that com…

Fantastic post from @CincyIM #MedEd

The “Back in My Day” Folly in Medical Education
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Still the one form of schadenfreude I allow myself without guilt.

I think the word for muffin rage is “indignation”

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Ever had 'famagui' as a student? Do you know what 'melodeim' means? What about 'oratrud'?

Check out the 1st edition of the #Cincycrew Dictionary of Unspoken Moments in #HPE #MedEd
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This appeared on the counter while I was making dinner. Remember that kindness is still abundant, and it can change a person’s day ❤️

🔥 Our Purpose, Our Voice: Navigating Uncertain Times

"We must also reclaim our role as stewards of truth, countering misinformation and standing by the integrity of our profession."

If you need some optimism 🆓 🔗 in the next post @jhospmedicine.bsky.social

Their cruelty is the point. It is designed to sow chaos and make us feel small and powerless. We are infinite and our power is sacred. Ours is the work of generations. We carry the DNA of ancestors who inspire strength across time and memory. We will not stop. We will never stop.

I tell my kids that with love, courage, and kindness they can tackle anything that comes their way.

We all can too.

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As I go further in my career and pick up more non-clinical responsibilities, this scares the hell out of me.

"Hospitalized Medicare patients treated by physicians who worked more clinical days had lower 30-day mortality."
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The secret to saying no: A decision framework for physicians Click on the article title to read more.

🧵The Secret to Saying No: A Decision Framework for Physicians (and others)

When opportunities abound, over-commitment is always a risk. How can you be strategic in pursuing opportunities?

Message if you want to read but lack access

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Can we be too gritty? Click on the article title to read more.

Too much of anything, even highly valued traits, can lead to problems.

Love the idea of "sustainable grit" put forth n this piece #MedEd

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"Currently, people who forego vaccination benefit from herd immunity... This protection will quickly wane for all of us as a tragedy of the commons unfolds at scale." @samirshahmd.bsky.social @jhospmedicine.bsky.social

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Time variability in medical training: a Dutch example By: Olle ten Cate, PhD Time to start a new, 2025, blog ICBME series, now called ICBHPE, the international competency-based health professions educators collaborative. As a current blog editor, I ha…

Fantastic #MedEd post form @olletencate.bsky.social

"Ask medical educators in the Netherlands how they manage to organize time-variable training, and they will not even understand that question. The status quo is accepted for granted."

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The Shadow Economy of Effort: Unintended Consequences of... : Academic Medicine , volunteer, and work experiences to enhance their residency applications. These extracurricular efforts to secure a residency position are sub-phenomena of the hidden curriculum. Medical schools do n...

A fantastic paper led by Dr. Eric Warm on the unintended consequences of Pass/Fail in #MedEd @acadmedjournal.bsky.social

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Variation in Case Exposure During Internal Medicine Residency This cohort study evaluates case exposure variability among internal medicine residents in Canada using an integrated database that links trainees to the patients they treat.

Amazing work led by Dr Andrew Lam @drbrandontang.bsky.social and Dr Shiphra Ginsburg
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Variation in Case Exposure During Internal Medicine Residency
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Grades vs. Growth, the real tension—cannot have the ‘true’ CBE without addressing this tension. Excellent work in Perspectives on #MedEd by the great team @midwestmedpeds.bsky.social #HPE pmejournal.org/articles/156...

Putting up the 🎄 today, and I see 13 take a 📸 of me. Thought she was capturing a memory - her good ol dad putting up the decorations.

Nope - she just noticed that my nose is so big that when I turned a certain way, the morning light shining through made it glow like Rudolph.

Well played, child.

“The threats posed by continuing to grade and rank students seems incompatible with goals of implementing CBME” Another great paper by the Cincinnatti group in PME, @kalzj3 et al, supporting this principle in a qualitative study pmejournal.org/articles/156...

a close up of a person with green paint on their face holding a black hat . ALT: a close up of a person with green paint on their face holding a black hat .

Considering all aspects - cinematography, visual effects, music, pacing, actor performances, message - @wickedmovie might be the best movie I’ve ever seen

Always

Dogs are nature’s stress relievers #MedPeds

Congrats!!!

We're all prone to temporal self-discontinuity - a sense that our past or future self is someone else.

-We're mad that past self stayed up late and now we are tired
-Now self skips the gym hoping that future self will take care of it

Give your(past/present/future)self grace. It's all the same you.

What Are We Made For? Mobilizing Medical Education Research ... : Academic Medicine educe costs, promote equity, and inform policy. However, the gap between research and practice requires attention and reflection. In this commentary, the authors reflect on ways that medical education...

Amazing and thought-provoking article from @javeedsukhera.bsky.social et al. #MedEd

"Medical education research should aspire to generate not only knowledge that is useful but also knowledge that is used."

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