Between Dec. 9, 2021, and Jan. 24, 2022, nearly 2,500 U.S. physicians responded to a survey by researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine, AMA, the Mayo Clinic and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. The researchers found that professional fulfillment scores fell, dropping from 40% in 2020 to 22.4% in 2021.
In the journal’s January podcast, Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH, discusses the importance and challenges of teaching Holocaust history to health professions students. Dr. Wynia is a professor of medicine and public health at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is also the director of the University of Colorado’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities located on the Anschutz Medical Campus.
If physicians are going to continue to shape the future of health care they will need to “win the fourth industrial revolution,” according to Arlen Meyers, MD, an otolaryngologist who also has a master’s degree in business.
Dr. Meyers—a professor emeritus at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and president and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs—defines the fourth industrial revolution as one that is shaped by the opportunities and challenges associated with emerging physical, digital and biologic technologies.
“There has just been a discomfort with the topic of firearm safety, in that many physicians didn’t know when they were supposed to talk about it, or didn’t know how to talk about it because they haven’t been trained,” said Dr. Betz, an AMA member who is deputy director of the Program for Injury Prevention, Education and Research at the Colorado School of Public Health. “Even if they wanted to talk about it, they weren’t sure when to do that, or how to do that.”
