Martha L Elks

Dados Biográficos

ID8306002
NOMEMartha L Elks
PRENOMESMartha L
SOBRENOMEElks
ASSINATURAELKS M L
AFILIAÇÕESMorehouse School of Medicine
ORCID0000-0003-2239-025X
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2020
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2023
ÍNDICE H0

  • The Problem and Power of Professionalism

    Open AccessDaniela Maristany, Luis Durbán et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2023

  • Implementing a Preclinical Elective Course for Working With Deaf and Hard of Hearing Patients in the Medical Curriculum

    Open AccessSarah J Greene, Sarah Greene et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2023

    Purpose: The Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) population often goes unrecognized as a medically underserved community, despite much evidence to support health care disparities in these communities. Poor health encounters can be linked to a lack of understanding of the cultural perspective of deafness and/or methods for effective communication with DHH patients.1,2 Currently, the literature is limited in how medical institutions are recognizing and …

  • Reevaluating Learner–Mentor Connections in HyFlex Medical Student Learning Communities

    Ashley Kennedy Mitchell, Jinjie Zheng et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2022

    Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic changed how medical schools teach and mentor future physicians. Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) enrolls students with diverse backgrounds and academic histories, ushering them into a medical school learning environment that is built upon faculty–student relationships, mentoring, and monitoring student development. 1 As an institution that promotes relationship building for students with diverse academic backgroun…

  • The Validity of MCAT Scores in Predicting Students’ Performance and Progress in Medical School

    Joshua T Hanson, Kevin Busche et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2022

    PURPOSE: This is the first multisite investigation of the validity of scores from the current version of the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) in clerkship and licensure contexts. It examined the predictive validity of MCAT scores and undergraduate grade point averages (UGPAs) for performance in preclerkship and clerkship courses and on the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 and Step 2 Clinical Knowledge examinations. It also …

  • Cultivating the physician workforce

    Open AccessCarol A Terregino, Julie S Byerley et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2021

    In the 10 years since the Lancet Commission on Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century suggested the changes necessary to transform medical education, the United States remains plagued by shortages of physicians and maldistribution of the physician workforce. Minoritized and rural communities usually suffer the most, with widely documented health disparities across the United States by race, ethnicity, gender identity, education, a…

  • How to Eliminate a Deficit-Centered Mindset About Medical Students of Color

    Open AccessMartha L Elks, Zita Lazzarini et al.ARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2021

    Approaches to responding to racial and ethnic health inequity in the United States have had limited impact over the past 40 years. Efforts to increase the number of medical students of color are undermined by hyperfocus and overreliance on and misinterpretation and misuse of standardized examination scores. Structural racism and persistence of deficit-focused interventions undermine appreciation of the value that students and physicians with mino…

  • Morehouse School of Medicine

    Martha L Elks, Khadeja Johnson et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    Medical Education Program Highlights The educational program of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) is constructed in alignment with MSM’s mission priorities of workforce diversity, primary care, and underserved populations. From the start of orientation, strong student–student and student–faculty interactions are fostered through learning communities as key elements of the curriculum. Strong academic achievement for the academically diverse stude…

  • The Validity of Scores From the New MCAT Exam in Predicting Student Performance

    Kevin Busche, Martha L Elks et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    PURPOSE: The new Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) was introduced in April 2015. This report presents findings from the first study of the validity of scores from the new MCAT exam in predicting student performance in the first year of medical school (M1). METHOD: The authors analyzed data from the national population of 2016 matriculants with scores from the new MCAT exam (N = 7,970) and the sample of 2016 matriculants (N = 955) from 16 medi…

  • Morehouse School of Medicine Case Study

    Martha L Elks, Khadeja Johnson et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    Bias can impact all aspects of human interactions and have major impacts on the education and evaluation of health care professionals. Health care and health professions education, being very dependent on interpersonal interactions and learning as well as on the assessment of interpersonal behaviors and skills, are particularly susceptible to the positive and negative effects of bias. Even trained and experienced evaluators can be affected by bia…