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Ensuring Fairness in Medical Education Assessment: Insights from Conferees

In this month’s Macy Notes, Holly J. Humphrey invited five Macy conferees to share their reactions to the following prompt: Please provide a concrete example of how the Ensuring Fairness in Medical Education...
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Bridging the Chasm of Inexperience through Virtual Gaming Simulation

Healthcare educator programs face the constant challenge of providing high-quality experiential learning for students. Within nursing, intense competition for clinical placements, recruitment of clinical faculty to...
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Webinar: Macy Conference Recommendations

The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation hosted a webinar to discuss conference recommendations on ensuring fairness in medical education assessment.
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Practices that Promote Inclusion in the Clinical Learning Environment

Promoting inclusion in the clinical learning environment requires a deliberate and individualized approach from both faculty and institutional leaders, and it starts by building trust, respecting, and authentically...

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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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