Our Priorities Preparing Future Health Professionals to Navigate Ethical Dilemmas

To succeed today, health professionals need more than clinical skill. They must also be prepared to navigate the complex ethical dilemmas that arise when confronting barriers that conflict with professional ideals and aspirations. Those teaching in learning environments cannot anticipate every scenario, but they can equip future health professionals with essential tools for navigating dilemmas that arise when managing issues of patient access, end of life, interactions with other health professionals and many other complex situations.

Abortion Restrictions Devastating Impact on Medical Education

Abortion bans and restrictions are directly harming pregnant people who have lost the ability to make decisions about their own health. They are also having a devastating impact on medical education.

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Healthcare in the Anthropocene: the Role of Medical Education in the Climate Crisis

For decades, talk of climate change conjured up images of melting icebergs and bleached coral, tragic yet removed from the everyday human experience. Recently, however, the human health threat posed by global warming and ecological destruction has crystallized in the public consciousness.

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News and Commentary

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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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Bridging the Chasm of Inexperience through Virtual Gaming Simulation

Healthcare educator programs face the constant challenge of providing high-quality experiential learning for students. Within nursing, intense competition for clinical placements, recruitment of clinical faculty to...
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Webinar: Macy Conference Recommendations

The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation hosted a webinar to discuss conference recommendations on ensuring fairness in medical education assessment.
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Barriers and Belief Systems Webinar Series: Exploring the Barriers to Inclusion for Nurses with Disabilities

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, Docs With Disabilities Initiative, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, and Johns Hopkins University Disability Health Research Center partnered to host a three-part webinar series...

Publications

Read 2022 Annual Meeting of the Macy Faculty Scholars

In June 2022, the Macy Foundation virtually convened the Macy Faculty Scholars, the program’s National Advisory Committee members, and mentors of the 2021 Scholars to share project and career updates, discuss the...

Read 2021 Annual Meeting of the Macy Faculty Scholars

In June 2021, the Macy Foundation virtually convened the Macy Faculty Scholars, the program’s National Advisory Committee members, and mentors of the 2020 Scholars to share project and career updates, discuss the...

Read Addressing Harmful Bias and Eliminating Discrimination in Health Professions Learning Environments

Proceedings of the February 2020 conference sponsored by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation are recorded in this report, Addressing Harmful Bias and Eliminating Discrimination in Health Professions Learning Environments.