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Honoring Our Friend and Colleague, Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan
The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation wishes to remember and celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan, a friend to the Foundation in many ways.
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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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2020: A New Decade with New Opportunities
This past year held both triumphant, joyful moments as well as troubling events. Holly Humphrey looks forward into the new decade at how health professionals and the institutions who train them have the...
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Honoring Our Friend and Colleague, Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan
The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation wishes to remember and celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan, a friend to the Foundation in many ways.
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Why We Need More Hispanic Doctors
More than 18% of people in the United States are Hispanic, yet only 5% of U.S. doctors are Hispanic. We need a health care workforce that is diverse, that looks like and has had experiences like the public it serves.
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New Research Q&A: Creating Safe and Effective Implicit Bias Training
We spoke with 2016 Macy Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Cristina Gonzalez, MD, MEd about her research and challenges of training students on implicit bias.