Re-entering clinical rotations amidst the COVID pandemic introduces a host of uncertainties for medical students. Chief among them, navigating the unknown frontier of telemedicine. Medical education prepares medical students extremely well for taking a history, observing the patient, and completing a physical exam when the patient is present. However, after a COVID-related hiatus, I learned …
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On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and assistant editor Dr. Dorene Balmer (@dorenebalmer) and guests medical students Bri Christophers (@BriChristophers) and Naomi Nkinsi (@NNkinsi) discuss how race is portrayed in medical education and what individuals and institutions should do to address racism in the curriculum and learning environment. This episode is now available …
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Academic Medicine is committed to assisting medical schools and teaching hospitals, their faculty and trainees, and the public in learning more about complex issues and strategies to acknowledge, repair, and transcend racism to make academic medicine not only more inclusive and diverse but also more focused on a vision of human mutuality. To this end, …
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