“When we have a question, we ask Siri. ‘How can I help you?’ she says…I fear this is becoming a metaphor for doctors themselves,” says Brian Hodges, M.D., Ph.D., FRCPC...
As a health-care provider, imagine that the city you serve is a human body. Would you operate on the heart and ignore the gangrene green creeping up the left leg...
"The simple truth is that we cannot achieve quality without addressing inequality," said chair of the AAMC Board of Directors and president of Massachusetts General Hospital Peter L. Slavin, M.D...
Efforts by academic centers to create more diverse campuses are under scrutiny as the U.S. Supreme Court takes up for the second time, Fisher v. University of Texas. The outcome...
The state slogan of New Mexico is "The Land of Enchantment" but it's also the land of great health disparities. Find out what happened when leaders worked together to change...
Do you spend more time on the EMR than you do on patient care? It's a frustrating problem and emergency medicine resident Laurel Yang of New York-Presbyterian Hospital says something's...
Middle school kids can use calculators when they take a test, so why can't medical students use open books or computers? Art Papier is a dermatologist and medical informaticist who...
Ana Maria Lopez is the associate vice president for Health Equity and Inclusion at University of Utah Health Care. But she says if people look to her alone for answers...
Payers and providers are fast adopting new ways of paying for care and shedding fee-for-service constraints to doing what they’ve long known to be in the best interest of patients...
What if you asked faculty to embrace dramatic change but didn't offer any training? As care providers, we take care of patients but didn't have a good system in place...
Our success hinges on our ability to embrace change, says Darrell Kirch, M.D., president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). What will move us into the...
Love to share your work but struggling to find the time? Darshana Shah is the associate dean of faculty affairs and professional development at Marshall University. She describes a unique...
Laura Palmer is a third year medical student at Texas Tech University. While she's all for change, she cautions about what can happen when the pace of that change may...
At Johns Hopkins, there is a focus on faculty. Joseph Cofrancesco Jr., Associate Professor of Medicine and director at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Excellence in Education, describes a unique...
Michael Barone is a pediatrician with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and an associate dean of faculty development and he says support for teachers was lacking at his institution. So...
Richard Levin says technology has transformed medicine, but the focus on technology and the value equation has caused us to lose the human touch. Can we use technology and still...
Doctors give advice, but sometimes the smartest way to improve the health of a community isn't prescriptive, it's more about listening. Aaron Byzak with University of California San Diego Health...
They're expected to spend their lives taking care of patients but who's making sure they're ok? Brianna Lide is a third year medical student at Texas A&M who says med...
Is it enough to simply recruit a diverse student body? Aisha Omorodion is a third year medical student at Albany Medical College who says too many schools are just trying...
Guess what was the most popular message in President Obama's State of the Union address? If you guessed, "announcement of his precision medicine initiative," you might be crazy. And you'd...
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson recalls the Orangeburg massacre, his childhood and the end of “Jim Crow” era of government-sanctioned oppression to illustrate how far the country has come in...
University of Utah pediatrician and Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs Carrie Byington, M.D. reflects on her career path and the obstacles she overcame as a Mexican-American woman growing up...
