Must Reads

The publications below have been recommended by ICRE community members as interesting and exciting "must read" articles. Please feel free to send your recommendations for the next issue to icre@pitt.edu.

Fall 2011

Bickel J, Rosenthal SL. Difficult issues in mentoring: recommendations on making the "undiscussable" discussable. Academic Medicine. 2011;86:1229-34.

Center for Creative Leadership. The real-world guide to team norms. Leading Effectively e-Newsletter. October 2011. http://www.ccl.org/leadership/enewsletter/2011/OCTnorms.aspx. Accessed November 11, 2011.

Fox T. Mapping the NIH's leadership DNA [interview with Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health]. The Washington Post. October 19, 2011. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/mapping-the-nihs-leadership-dna/2011/10/19/gIQAKUJbyL_print.html. Accessed November 11, 2011.

Gawande A. Top athletes and singers have coaches. Should you? The New Yorker. October 3, 2011. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/03/111003fa_fact_gawande. Accessed November 11, 2011.

Rockey S. Trends in NIH training and career development awards. Extramural Nexus. October 7, 2011. http://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2011/10/07/trends-in-nih-training-and-career-development-awards/. Accessed November 11, 2011.

West CP, Shanafelt TD, Kolars JC. Quality of life, burnout, educational debt, and medical knowledge among internal medicine residents. JAMA. 2011;306:952-60.