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Vital Voices Season 2

We are excited to share a compilation of the second season of Vital Voices, a podcast of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.
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Vital Voices Season 1

We are excited to share a compilation of the first season of Vital Voices, a podcast of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.
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To Think, Act, and Feel Like a Nurse—Why Professional Identity Formation Matters

What do beginning learners really know about the discipline they have chosen? In listening to nursing students over the years, it’s often a meaningful experience that leads them to choose professional nursing.
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World Mental Health Day: Mental Health Care for Children

October 10 marks World Mental Health Day—a day established more than 30 years ago to raise awareness about mental health with the goal of creating lasting change.

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Ensuring Inclusive Parental Support in Medical Schools

In so many cases, parents or prospective parents in medicine have to make painful choices which make it hard to be successful both as a student or doctor and as a parent. But what if there were ways to support these parents and mitigate their sacrifices to their families and line of work?

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Putting Knowledge into Action to Reduce Maternal Mortality

Everyone who goes into healthcare does so because they want to help people. How, then, can this mission sometimes go awry?

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A Hands-On Approach to Enhance Community Care

Most patients think about healthcare in the United States as a single, interconnected system. They don’t necessarily distinguish between primary care providers, specialists, public health experts, emergency providers, and others.

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