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Moving Student Teams Beyond the Classroom
How one institution is training first-year students to work with patients out in the community.
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Working as a Team to Improve Diagnosis
A new curriculum aims to reduce medical errors.
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Increasing Resident Autonomy in the Operating Room
An educational intervention is showing what it takes to help surgical residents practice independently.
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Social Determinants of Health: A required curriculum
As our healthcare system changes to a model that promotes not only treating and curing disease but preventing illness in the first place, doctors must be prepared to keep their patients healthy.
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New Research Q&A: Why Do We Use Different Language to Describe Male and Female Teachers?
We spoke with 2018 Macy Faculty Scholar and Associate Dean of Faculty Development at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, C. Jessica Dine, MD, about her recently published a paper in JAMA...
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Addressing the Next Patient Safety Emergency: Health Inequity
Social Medicine Consortium co-founder and Harvard Medical School assistant professor, Michelle Morse, MD, MPH, spoke to us about the importance of social medicine, its connection to health equity, and what medical...
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Why Unifying Interprofessional Education with Interprofessional Care Is A Worthy Goal
Interprofessional education thrives when faculty and students from various disciplines see the same patients together at the same time in the same place.