David P Sklar

Biographic Data

ID6612391
NAMEDavid P Sklar
GIVEN NAMESDavid P
FAMILY NAMESklar
SIGNATURESKLAR D P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of New Mexico
ORCID0000-0003-4705-7904
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Resident Unions

    Open AccessDavid P Sklar, David Sklar et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2025

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, resident unions proliferated. While unionization resulted in increased compensation and benefits, the process of union negotiations may have created adversarial relationships between residents and their institutions’ leadership, whom residents depend on for supervision and the development of clinical expertise. Such adversarial relationships could affect the learning environment, which is critical to the delivery of …

  • How Academic Medicine Can Amplify Truth Amid the Noise of Misinformation, Inaccuracies, and Lies

    David P SklarARTICLEAcademic Medicine2022

    Inaccurate statements and lies from public figures and political and government leaders have the power to exacerbate dangerous upheavals in our political, health care, and social environments. The widespread misinformation, inaccuracies, and lies about the COVID-19 pandemic (about the origin of the virus, the severity of illness, vaccination, and “cures,” to name a few) illustrate the potentially disastrous consequences of false information. Acad…

  • What the Covid-19 Pandemic Can Teach Health Professionals About Continuing Professional Development

    David P Sklar, David Sklar et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2021

    The world’s health care providers have realized that being agile in their thinking and growth in times of rapid change is paramount and that continuing education can be a key facet of the future of health care. As the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, educators at academic health centers are faced with a crucial question: How can continuing professional development (CPD) within teams and health systems be improved so that health care pro…

  • Covid-19

    David P SklarARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    COVID-19 has disrupted every aspect of the U.S. health care and health professions education systems, creating anxiety, suffering, and chaos and exposing many of the flaws in the nation’s public health, medical education, and political systems. The pandemic has starkly revealed the need for a better public health infrastructure and a health system with incentives for population health and prevention of disease as well as outstanding personalized …

  • A Troika of Fellows

    Open AccessHarun Đogo, David P Sklar et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2012

    This year was an unusual one for the APSA Congressional Fellowship Program—three fellows were placed with the same congressional office. The fact that three fellows, each with very different backgrounds, were drawn to the Senate Finance Committee, says something about the unique role that the committee plays in congressional policymaking. As one of the “A”s of the four “Super-A” committees, along with Appropriations, Armed Services, and Foreign R…

  • A Comparison of Intimate Partner Homicide to Intimate Partner Homicide–Suicide

    Open AccessLaura Banks, Cameron Crandall et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2008Cited by: 4

    The authors compare cases of female intimate partner homicide-suicide to female intimate partner homicide alone to describe risk factors and suggest prevention strategies, including strategies in the medical setting. Differences are found between the types of cases in marital relationship, age, blood alcohol, and the use of firearms. Physicians and other health care providers who treat victims of intimate partner violence and patients at risk for…