The Monday Morning DripPediatric med ed for the busy educator
Issue 2 · Week of Sept 28, 2026

"Ready" has to be proven now.

The ABP just opened a 2-year fellowship path in 7 subspecialties for programs that can show readiness with EPAs. That makes trustworthy assessment data priceless, and a JGME study finds AI summaries of rotation comments catch most strengths but miss most areas for improvement. On the recruitment side, signals dominate who gets an interview, and a small PHM pilot shows how far a structured mentoring cohort can move confidence.

In this issueAI summaries for your CCCSignals and interview invitesMentorship for women in PHM
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AIAssessment

Can ChatGPT prep your CCC packet? It finds the praise and misses the critique

  • 277 end-of-rotation assessments for 25 residents: de-identifying took ~60 min, and 3 LLMs labeled the comments in under 7 min each.
  • Humans found 476 comments (81.5% strengths, 18.5% areas for improvement). LLM recall was 67.8% for strengths but only 23.9% for areas for improvement; 59.7% of comments were labeled accurately overall.
Why it matters: the comments a CCC most needs are the ones the models missed. Let AI compile, but have a human read every constructive comment.
Cooney CM, Slattery R, Cooney DS, Lifchez SD, Park JE. J Grad Med Educ. Aug 2026. PMID 42602997. doi:10.4300/JGME-D-25-01049.1
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GMESelection

Signals rule the interview list, and gold signals rule most of all

  • ERAS 2023-24 data from 6 specialties (peds not included): a signal raised interview odds 4.7-7.4x with few signals, 8.4-18.5x with many, and up to 55-218x for gold signals in 2-tier systems.
  • Step 2 CK, never failing Step 1, applicant type, and in-state status also mattered, but less. Signals helped out-of-state applicants most.
Try this: peds invites can go out Oct 5. Before you screen, agree as a committee on how much a signal should weigh so it's applied consistently.
Guthrie ST, Griffith B, Hammoud MM, et al. Acad Med. Online Aug 3, 2026. doi:10.1093/acamed/wvag206
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PHMFaculty dev

SHINE: six hours that grew early-career PHM women's mentor networks

  • A 2025 national pilot for trainee and early-career women in PHM: six 1-hour sessions on negotiation, job search, promotion, branding, and mentorship.
  • 25 participants (16 matched pre-post pairs): confidence rose in all 12 career domains (Cohen's d 1.06-2.11). Cross-institutional mentors went from 36% to 67%, peer mentors from 12% to 100%.
Why it matters: a light-touch cohort model is easy to borrow for chiefs or PHM fellows. Caveats: small, self-reported, no control group.
"Evaluation of a National Mentorship Pilot Program for Early-Career Women in PHM." Hosp Pediatr. Online Sept 14, 2026. PMID 42732884. doi:10.1542/hpeds.2026-009354
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From Academic Pediatrics
Primary careTraining gap
Dual language learners. Of 349 pediatric providers, 79% struggled to spot language delays in DLLs when they didn't share the family's language (vs 7% for monolingual kids). Bilingualism training went with more culturally effective care. Guendica M, et al. Full text ›
Adolescent
The P-CASH scale. A new 3-factor confidence scale (141 providers; alpha 0.90-0.95) found pediatric providers less confident than non-pediatric providers in adolescent sexual health on all 3 subscales. Gerchow L, et al. Full text ›
Peds GME
"Diagnosing the Trainee in Difficulty." From the APPD Faculty and Professional Development Task Force. Title only; it's a discussion piece with no abstract. Arndt A, Berger G. Full text ›
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Transitions
Handoff as ritual: 14 EM residents described group handoff as a ritual that builds community, norms, and hierarchy, not just a way to pass information. Zvonar I, et al. Acad Med, online Aug 13. Full text ›
Faculty
Academic Advocacy Guidelines in Pediatrics. Black AK, Pulcini CD, et al. Pediatrics, Sept 18. Title only; no abstract in PubMed. Full text ›
Sources & caveats: Summaries come from abstracts I read: NCBI for JGME and Hosp Pediatr, ScienceDirect for Acad Peds, and OUP for Acad Med. News comes from ABP, ACGME, AAMC, and APPD pages. Rate limits blocked this week's title lists for JGME, Med Educ, Med Teach, JAMA Pediatrics, and other med ed journals, so a new JGME issue may have been missed. Full text may need an institutional login. Please verify before citing.
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