By Tim Lacy Working in the Office of Medical Student Learning Environment, I find it a good practice to draw a bright line between a person’s feelings about grades and evaluations, on the one hand, and their own assessment of a course’s or clerkship’s learning environment on the other. It’s important to separate questions of [...]

by Tim Lacy After having some time to settle into my position—to read more broadly on the particular issues of mistreatment in medical education, and to visit with the UI-COM campuses—I have arrived at a tentative thesis about potential sources of mistreatment, broadly, in medical education:Continue Reading Mistreatment as Misdiagnosis: A Thesis

by Tim Lacy What is a microaggression? From where did the term arise? How does it work in medical education?Continue Reading Microaggressions and Medical Education

by Tim Lacy This February 26 New York Times story (behind a paywall), by Benedict Carey, addresses the topics of humiliation, bullying, and harshness from certain kinds of supervisors. Citing past and present public figures, the article undermines the thinking, or assumption, that harsh bosses get results. They don’t, in any arena. Citing a synthesis [...]