Dr. Rodgers' Last Lessons: Reflections After the Death of a Mentor

Abstract

The Indiana University emergency medicine family is grieving. We, the residency program directors, are grieving. The Monday morning before Thanksgiving, Dr. Kevin Rodgers, KRodge, a lifelong educator and mentor to most of us, was killed in his home following his overnight shift. Kevin's death has shaken us deeply and we are tired from crying. As emergency physicians, we're supposed to know about death -we see it regularly; we write about it in our literature; we comfort the families of our dying patients. But when it is one of our own -a father-figure -we don't know how to react. We can't compartmentalize this. As a way to try to find meaning out of the senselessness, we've been reflecting on what it means to be an emergency medicine educator.

The Big Five Personality and Perception of the Career Barriers of Male Prisoners: Moderated Mediating Effect Models

“…Individuals from lower socioeconomic status backgrounds often face greater uncontrollability in their lives and have less opportunity to obtain material resources that can be used to change their environments. When individuals face uncontrollable situations in the external world, it is vital to change their inner world to maintain mental health (Mugele et al, 2018). In addition, socially disadvantaged groups perceive greater constraints in environments and reduce their self-efficacy in achieving expected goals, so socioeconomic status usually impact individuals’ self-efficacy.…”