About the Journal Club
The ACGME Clinician Educator Journal Club is a free, monthly online meeting held on the third Thursday of each month. It brings together current and aspiring clinician educators, authors, and ACGME staff to explore timely topics and recent journal articles in medical education.
Each session features:
- direct engagement with authors
- lively discussions that deepen understanding
- opportunities to enhance participants knowledge, skills, and effectiveness as educators
Topics, articles, and speakers vary from month to month, ensuring that each meeting offers fresh perspectives and relevant insights. We invite you to join us by registering below.
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ACGME Clinician Educator Journal Club
CURRENT TOPIC: Music and Medicine in Concert
DATE: Thursday, July 17, 2025
TIME: 12:00 PM Central
DURATION: 60 minutes
DESCRIPTION: The discussion for July's Journal Club meeting will focus on how musical training can inform medical practice, specifically emphasizing the value of attentive listening, meaningful pauses, and revisiting clinical narratives to enhance patient care. This discussion and article tie into the ACGME Clinician Educator (CE) Milestones, ETP 1: Teaching and Facilitating Learning and ETP 8: Science of Learning. Speaker Nara Miriam Michaelson, MD, MS will discuss her article, "Music and Medicine in Concert," with moderator, Laura Edgar, EdD, CAE, Senior Vice President of Competencies, Milestones, and Faculty Development the ACGME. Dr. Michaelson looks forward to discussing the article further at this month's Journal Club meeting. Participants should be sure to read the article ahead of the session and come with any questions or reflections.
SPEAKERS:
 Nara Miriam Michaelson, MD, MS Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Fellow Mass General Brigham Nara Miriam Michaelson, MD, MS, is a Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Fellow at Mass General Brigham in Boston, Massachusetts. She completed her neurology residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell and Memorial Sloan Kettering, where she collaborated with Dr. Susan Gauthier on research into paramagnetic rim lesions in minority populations with MS.
Originally from Oklahoma City, Dr. Michaelson earned her undergraduate degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Course IX) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She later conducted research on T regulatory cells in MS at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Dr. David Hafler’s lab. She received her MD from Dartmouth Medical School, where she led the Student Interest Group in Neurology and organized MS awareness events.
Currently, she is investigating imaging biomarkers of inflammatory lesions under the mentorship of Dr. Eric Klawiter. Her interests include clinical trial design and drug development, supported by an Anne B. Young Translational Neuroscience Fellowship in collaboration with Biogen. She is also a recipient of the Sylvia Lawry Fellowship from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Dr. Michaelson has served on the editorial board of Neurology’s Resident & Fellow Section for three years and founded the blog SIGNposts to engage medical students in neurology. She is also passionate about creative writing in medicine, with award-winning essays and poetry published in Neurology, Academic Psychiatry, and the Journal of Graduate Medical Education.  Laura Edgar, EdD, CAE Senior Vice President, Competencies, Milestones, and Faculty Development ACGME Dr. Edgar is the Senior Vice President for ACGME. She provides leadership for the oversite, development, innovation, and maintenance of domestical and international competencies, Milestones program, and faculty development. She serves as an ACGME ambassador to and collaborator with internal (e.g., ACGME-I, global services, education, review committees) and external (e.g., program director groups, certification boards, medical specialty groups) stakeholders to advance the implementation of competencies, Milestones, faculty development, and other ACGME strategic initiatives.
Prior to working at ACGME, Dr. Edgar worked in the clinical laboratory for 10 years and then directed several domestic and international certification, accreditation, and scientific organizations. Dr. Edgar earned her doctorate in education, focusing on organizational leadership, after obtaining a Bachelor's degree in medical laboratory sciences, and a Master's degree in business administration.
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