An Interview With Psychiatry Residency Program Director Toni L. Johnson, M.D.

, MD , PhD TONI BRANSFORD , MD , FACC

Dermatology Residency Selection Criteria with an Emphasis on Program Characteristics: A National Program Director Survey

Background. Dermatology residency programs are relatively diverse in their resident selection process. The authors investigated the importance of 25 dermatology residency selection criteria focusing on differences in program directors' (PDs') perception based on specific program demographics. Methods. This cross-sectional nationwide observational survey utilized a 41-item questionnaire that was...

Seizing the White Space: an interview with Mark W. Johnson

What makes opportunities like these so difficult to grasp is that, so often, they require companies to move far beyond their core into uncharted territory – into their white space. That’s a scary place, one where many companies’ experience is (as one CEO put it) “unblemished by success.” But if the danger is all too obvious, its causes are not. The white space is hard to navigate not because it...

Robert L. Sadoff, MD: renaissance man of forensic psychiatry.

If we are lucky, we will encounter some extraordinary people in our lifetimes. Some may have a profound effect on our lives, others may alter the course. Robert Leslie Sadoff was born in the wake of the great depression to Midwestern parents who emphasized the value of doing good for others. They exposed him to a unique set of humanistic qualities that later contributed to his acquiring an unyi...

Story-based health policy: an interview with fitzhugh mullan, MD.

Pediatrician, writer, editor, and health policy expert Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, is perhaps best known as the founding editor of (and contributor to) the popular column “Narrative Matters” in the influential health policy journal Health Affairs. For many readers of the journal, the column—which features first-person narratives, or stories, that illuminate often-complex health policy issues—is the fi...