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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 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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Disability Pride: Peril or Possibilities in Healthcare?
July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity to celebrate the historic signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law; yet, 33 years later, we still have a long way to go.
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A Letter to the Community in Response to the Supreme Court Decision: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFAI) v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and SFAI v. University of North Carolina
Statement from Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation President Holly J. Humphrey
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Reflecting on the 2023 Macy Faculty Scholars Annual Meeting
Read President Holly J. Humphrey's reflection on the 2023 Annual Macy Faculty Scholars Annual Meeting.
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Ensuring Fairness in Medical Education Assessment: Taking a Closer Look at the 2022 Macy Conference Recommendations
Read the foreword to the August 2023 supplement of Academic Medicine focused on Ensuring Fairness in Medical Education Assessment, authored by Dowin Boatright, MD, MBA, Louito Edje, MD, MHPE, Larry D. Gruppen, PhD,...