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Filling the Gap in Care for People Living with Dementia
2020 Macy Faculty Scholar Tatiana Sadak, PhD, PMHNP, ARNP, RN discusses how the Dementia Palliative Education Network is equipping healthcare professionals with the education and training to help patients living with...
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The Future is Uncertain: Towards A Curriculum for Uncertainty in Clinical Practice
2020 Macy Faculty Scholar, Dimitri Papanagnou, MD, MPH, discusses how educators can better prepare trainees for the complexity and uncertainty that lie ahead as students transition from the classroom into the clinical...
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The Everyday (Super)Power of Emotional Contagion
2019 Macy Faculty Scholar, Barret Michalec, PhD, shares a written form of his TEDx talk on a vital ingredient to human connectivity.
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Rethinking the Health Professions Educator
2019 Macy Faculty Scholar, Rachel Salas, M.D., shares how she teamed up with educational leaders to develop and offer two new curriculum tracks to better prepare future health professionals.
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Teaching to Transform
Michael Westerhaus, MD, MA, 2019 Macy Faculty Scholar, shares how he is working to deepen our understanding of how teaching social medicine transforms teachers, students, and communities.
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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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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.