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## Meet the editors

Dr. Stanislaw P. Stawicki, MD, MBA, FACS, FAIM is Chair of the Department of Research of Innovation, St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is Associate Professor of Surgery at Temple University School of Medicine. Dr Stawicki co-authored >560 scholarly publications, edited >15 books, and is a member of multiple editorial boards. He is an expert in clinical research, health security, medical education,

patient safety, traumatology and surgical critical care. He has given numerous scientific presentations on three continents and is Board Certified in General Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, and Neurocritical Care.

Dr. Michael S. Firstenberg, MD, FACC, FAIM is a board-certified thoracic surgeon practicing adult cardiac surgery at The Medical Center of Aurora (Colorado, USA) where he serves at the Chief of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery. He currently holds Adjunct appointments in the Colleges of Medicine and Graduate Studies at Northeast Ohio Medical University and serves on the teaching faculty at the Rocky Vista University. He attended Case

Western Reserve University Medical School, received his General Surgery training at University Hospitals in Cleveland, and completed a Fellowship in Thoracic Surgery at The Ohio State University. He also obtained advanced training in heart failure surgical therapies at The Cleveland Clinic. He is an active member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), American Association of Thoracic Surgeons (AATS), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), and the American College of Academic International Medicine (ACAIM – for which he is a Founding Fellow). He currently serves a Chair of the American College of Cardiology Credentialing and Member Services Committee as well as being active on several other national society committees. He is the author of well over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters. He has Edited several textbooks on topics ranging from Medical Leadership, Patient Safety, Endocarditis, and Extra-corporeal Membrane Oxygenation – all of which include topics that he has lectured on world-wide..

Dr. James P. Orlando, EdD serves as the Chief Medical Education Officer and ACGME Designated Institutional Official (DIO) at St Luke's University Health Network in Bethlehem, PA. He earned his Doctor of Education (Ed.D) in Corporate Learning Leadership from University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education and The Wharton School. He earned his Masters of Education (M.Ed.) in Organizational Development from Temple

University and two Bachelor of Art (B.A) degrees from Moravian College in International Management and American Political Thought. Dr. Orlando serves as an adjunct professor at University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and Moravian College. He is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) by the International Coaching Federation. In addition, Dr. Orlando serves on two national boards, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Institutional Review Committee and on the Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers (AIAMC) Board of Directors.

Dr. Thomas J. Papadimos, MD, MPH, FCCM, FAIM is the Professor and Associate Dean, as well as the Medical Director, Lloyd A. Jacobs Interprofessional Immersive Simulation Center Director, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences Toledo, Ohio. Dr. Papadimos co-authored hundreds of high impact publications and co-edited books on patient safety

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

*by Jay M. Yanoff*

*and Thomas J. Papadimos*

Graduate Medical Education

Resident Autonomy

Physician Burnout

Leadership in Graduate Medical Education

*by Simiao Li-Sauerwine and Andrew King*

Holism: The Example of Chronic Low Back Pain *by Alan Remde, Stephen DeTurk and Thomas Wojda*

*by Amanda Cooper and Steven Allen*

**Preface III**

Introductory Remarks **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Invited Commentary on Leadership in Graduate Medical Education **11**

**Chapter 2 13**

Main Contents **23**

**Chapter 3 25**

**Chapter 4 45**

**Chapter 5 71**

**Chapter 6 93**

Teaching Balanced Patient Care Using Principles of Reductionism and

*by Bess Connors, Charlotte Horne, Valery Vilchez and Sofya Asfaw*

Curriculum Development: Foundations and Modern Advances in

Introductory Chapter: A Quest to Transform Graduate Medical Education into a Seamless Journey toward Practice Readiness *by Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Michael S. Firstenberg, James P. Orlando* 

and medical ethics. His current leadership role includes active involved in undergraduate, postgraduate, and graduate medical education. He is among top leaders in immersive medical simulation.

## Contents



Preface

Graduate medical education (GME) is a vast, highly complex, and controversial topic, with numerous subtleties, nuances and intricacies. As implied in its very definition, GME's primary goal is to oversee the development of competent physicians, with the intent of ensuring health-care continuity, quality, and value well into the future. Key challenges facing GME today include increasing regulatory burden, spiraling health-care costs, demographic trends, looming shortage of providers, physician burnout, and rapidly evolving consumer expectations, among

In addition to the increasing complexity and demands of our modern GME systems, important demographic and population trends place further strain on our current and future physician workforce. The expected growth of the geriatric population segment, coupled with the system-wide demand for high-quality, safe and affordable health-care, create both a challenge and an opportunity to transform how we diagnose and treat patients. Graduate medical education is one of the critical

This inaugural tome of a multi-volume collection, titled *Contemporary Topics in Graduate Medical Education*, provides an excellent introduction to many of the topics directly relevant to modern GME theory and operations. Beginning with an invited commentary on leadership in graduate medical education by Professor Jay M. Yanoff, the book goes on to discuss a broad range of contemporary issues encountered by GME programs across the world. These topics include curriculum development, resident autonomy issues, physician burnout and wellness, postdoctoral research programs, and finally an important discussion on reductionism

More than 20 authors contributed to this book, representing an impressive group of academics, from some of the top teaching hospitals in the United States. And while the book itself represents a collection of chapters, each chapter illuminates its unique perspective across the wealth of topics discussed throughout the first volume of the cycle. The diversity of academic views and opinions is one of the key strengths of this inaugural tome. Consequently, the Editors intend to ensure that

As the Editors of *Contemporary Topics in Graduate Medical Education*, we hope that the current compilation will not only provide the reader with superb value and knowledge, but also help establish the current book cycle as an important source of

other issues.

components of this ongoing transformation.

and holism in the context of balanced patient care education.

this focus on excellence continues throughout the entire series.
