In This Month's Issue

In this issue of SGIM Forum, LeRoi Hicks, SGIM President, and Eric Bass, SGIM CEO, share important SGIM considerations regarding organizational priorities for the coming year, with special focus in the President’s column relating to the legality of abortion in each U.S. state and that impact on future SGIM meeting plans.

Margot Cohen and colleagues write about their experiences of training residents as coaches of clerkship students during an Internal Medicine (IM) and IM-Pediatrics elective. Hussain Khawaja and co-authors describe a physician ambassador program to facilitate new faculty onboarding and retention. Medha Reddy, a third-year medical student, and her mentor offer five tips to overcoming vaccine hesitancy in minoritized populations. Stacie R. Schmidt summarizes the various ways that the healthcare industry contributes to yet can also mitigate its effects on climate change. Finally, Phillip M. Johansen, a fourth-year medical student, and co-authors offer a morning report case study and overview of the challenging diagnosis of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.

As an always impressive breadth of scope, our general internal medicine community spans advocacy, education, leadership, research, and the intersections and blurred boundaries beyond. I hope we can periodically return to our roots in nature as one of many possible ways to rejuvenate and reenergize our numerous important initiatives and daily work.

From the Editor

“Our Lessons Learned”: From the Desks of the SGIM Forum Guest Editors

Alfred Burger, MD; Shanu Gupta, MD; Lubna Khawaja, MD
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Featured Column

The Square Peg Dilemma: Belonging in a Conformist World

Sanjay A. Patel, MD, FACP, SFHM
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Medical Jargon Is Everywhere: Can AI Help Us Change?

Patricia Carey, MD; Amirala S. Pasha, DO, JD
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Women’s Caucus: Reflecting on 40 Years of Advocacy and Collaboration

Anne Cioletti, MD; Indu Partha, MD; Rakhee Bhayani, MD
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Other Articles

The Lasting Value of Relationship-based Medicine

Paul Fine, MD
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Embracing Challenges and Passions: Lessons Learned from a Career in General Internal Medicine

Jada Bussey-Jones, MD, FACP, President, SGIM
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Work-Life Synergy: A Physician’s Journey to Integration

Christine Bryson, DO, SFHM, FACP
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Permission Slip: Trust Yourself and Trust Your Patients

R. Michelle Schmidt, MD, MPH
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