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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.
Call for Applications: 2020 Macy Faculty Scholars Program
We are pleased to invite applications for our tenth class of Macy Faculty Scholars. The deadline for applications is February 5, 2020. Learn more and start your application today!
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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.