At our last Med Ed Forum gathering on 4/6/2008, Molly Blackley Jackson, Acting Instructor in the Department of Medicine, presented her research project entitled Culture Change: Cynicism and Satisfaction in Medicine. 
We reviewed the history of publications on cynicism in medicine, and talked about related publications (including empathy, burnout, and measures of professional satisfaction). She then discussed her research project, in which she and colleagues conducted 30 extensive interviews (10 each with medical students, residents, and attendings at UW) with open ended questions about professional expectations, personal degree of cynicism and suspected etiologies, satisfaction, and best moments in medicine.
We discussed and gave feedback on the early conceptual model created from this data (see slide 21 in the ppt), and discussed further research in this arena (including collecting more broad quantitative data from these qualitative data, expanding the project to include community medicine physicians, considering how cynicism and satisfaction similarly affects other fields, including the basic sciences, nursing, engineering, law, etc).
The turnout was fantastic, and a lively discussion followed. Many thanks to those who participated -- next time we'll order more food and larger plates!
We look forward to our next gathering on 5/5/2008; Molly Billings, UW Pulmonary Critical Care Fellow, will discuss her research in our first 'Works-In-Progress' forum.
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