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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.
Announcing the 2019 Macy Faculty Scholars!
We are delighted to announce our ninth class of Macy Faculty Scholars!
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Residency Programs Help New Interns Navigate the Road Ahead
Ask any new medical intern what worries them most about beginning their residency, and they will undoubtedly tell you two things. They fear unintentionally hurting a patient and worry about losing their humanity. The...
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A Physician Assistant Spearheads an Interprofessional Education Program Spanning the Country
As I became more involved with Yale PA Online, I was struck by the question of: How do you create an environment where students from different professions can learn from each other?