Doctors don't have a lot of "down time," especially residents. But Erin Helms, M.D., a new mom and third year Chief Resident of the University of Utah's Family Medicine Residency...
Alterations to brain circuits underpinning intellectual disability, autism and other neuropsychiatric disorders appear to be related to subtle cellular changes that occur when a gene is disrupted in the hippocampus–a...
Author and journalist Steven Brill admits knowing very little about health care before writing his influential Time magazine exposé on inflated hospital bills. “All along I’ve had this bug to...
Rutgers Medical School is facing a challenge many medical schools are struggling with: an aging infrastructure and a need to provide more modern facilities for faculty and students. How is...
Cornell's curriculum needed to be updated to reflect the current needs of medical students. It wasn't easy and the change involved much resistance from faculty. The school is now two...
Every few years, the AAMC publishes results from research assessing public perception of medical schools and academic medical centers. The 2015 research recently concluded. Bill McInturff, co-founder of Public Opinion...
Timi Agar Barwick is the CEO of the Physician Assistant Education Association and she says PAs are hard wired to be team players, and now it's time to find some...
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...
“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...
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 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...
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...
