- Making the Rounds In Palliative Care, One Collaboration at a Time
Making the Rounds in Palliative Care, One Collaboration at a Time
Before it became the norm for trauma units and palliative care physicians to work together, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), Dr. Mohana Karlekar and her colleague, Dr. John Morris, t...
- Vanderbilt Medicine was Built to Unite Clinics and Labs and to Inspire a Country
It often helps to look at history to understand the present. Vanderbilt Medical Center has a storied history, and fortunately, a few books preserve that story for the present. Timothy Jacobson’s Making Medical Doctors: Science and Medicine at Vanderbilt Since Flexner tells the st...
- Faster, Better Chart Abstraction with Brim
Manual chart abstraction of unstructured data has created big bottlenecks in medical research - data doesn't help researchers if it's trapped in electronic notes. New software from Vanderbilt, Brim, makes chart abstraction up to 80% faster and often more accurate as well by l...
- Having Difficult Conversations
No matter how in tune you are with your colleagues, at some point, you’ll find yourself in conflict and needing to have a difficult conversation. In my leadership roles at VUMC and elsewhere, I’ve had plenty. Here are some strategies for making these conversations less stress...
- Rekindling the Fire: A Review of The Joy of Science
For most of us, science begins with a rush of “Wow! This is super cool!” But the emotional fire can subside after years of hard work. Negativity in popular culture can make us forget the depths of our why. To rekindle our passion to see the universe’s beauty, physicist Roel Snied...
- Reframing Rejection: Changing ‘No’ to ‘Not Yet”
Current Application Status: Not Discussed
“Thank you for submitting your work to our Journal. It has been carefully reviewed by experts in the field and we regret to inform you that we must REJECT your manuscript.”
We’ve all been there, many times. Sometimes it can feel...
- Awesome Things About Life in Research
Building a list of awesome things that come with life in research, one quirky, funny, inspiring piece at a time. Missing your favorite awesomeness? Or have The perfect image? Add in comments or tweet @edgeforscholars to share your personal twist on why science rocks. #JoyOfSc...
- Leading a Lab: Compass Program for Leadership and Management Training
This fall I had the opportunity to participate in Compass (Wash U Compass: Elevating Biomed Professionals (researchercompass.org)), a leadership and management training and mentoring program for early career researchers. An NIH-funded program led by a team at Washington Universit...
- Advice for (New) Assistant Professors Extravaganza
Originally posted in #MHAWS: Mirya Holman's Aggressive Winning Scholars Newsletter.
Hello darlings!
Welcome to the annual “Mirya Holman gives some advice to (new) assistant professors” extravaganza! MHGSATNAPE just rolls off the tongue, right?
Here’s the advice I gave last y...
- NIH’s New Data Sharing Policy: Not So Scary
NIH now requires a formal data sharing plan for each grant they receive. (A few exceptions, primarily T32s and F grants, exist.) It sounds complicated, but they've actually made it pretty easy. You're probably already doing some of what's required.
First of all, there's a ...
