Students and faculty discuss public health principles in COVID-19, students mobilizing in a crisis, and health equity in the pandemic. About the video Lawrence Deyton, MSPH, MD, of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences discusses the clinical public health curriculum work at GW and how these principles are being deployed in response to COVID-19. David Edelman,…
Learn about political issues that are impacting health professions student. The discussion led to a letter from students to the Biden administration. About the video The Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) and the Beyond Flexner Alliance (BFA) Student Assembly co-hosted the Health Professions Students Voices on Voting and the Election webinar, as part of the “Health Education Leaders Pushing” (HELP)…
Measuring the Outcomes of GME Institutions About the Research Authors: Chen, Candice MD, MPH; Petterson, Stephen PhD; Phillips, Robert L. MD, MSPH; Mullan, Fitzhugh MD; Bazemore, Andrew MD, MPH; O’Donnell, Sarah D. MPH Originally appearing in Academic Medicine, September 2013 – Volume 88 – Issue 9 Abstract Graduate medical education (GME) plays a key role in the U.S. health care…
The author recalls the summer of 1965, which he spent in Holmes County, Mississippi, as a medical civil rights worker. About the Article Originally appearing in Academic Medicine, SMA Founder Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan recalls the poverty, bravery, ignorance, brotherhood, racism, hate, and love he experienced that summer, which led him to conclude he would become a civil rights doctor. When…
Are Black, Hispanic, and Native American (ie, American Indian or Alaska Native) populations underrepresented in the health care professions in the US, and does the educational pipeline show greater representation of these groups in the future health care workforce? About the Report In this cross-sectional study of 2019 data from the American Community Survey and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data…
How is the Beyond Flexner Alliance pursuing its mission? About the video Alliance Executive Director Toyese Oyeyemi talks about pushing social mission and anti-racism work forward — accomplishments and goals – with a social mission research agenda, community engagement, learning collaboratives, measuring social mission practice, and technical assistance….
Through data collection and analysis, the Diversity Tracker can motivate and encourage professions, states, and schools to do more to address the underrepresentation of population groups among health professions. Abstract Health disparities experienced by subsets of the US population are similarly experienced in countries around the world, albeit not necessarily by racial or ethnic subsets of the population. The Health…
What is the current state of social mission commitment in US dental, medical, and nursing schools, and how does social mission performance compare across school types? Key Points Question What is the current state of social mission commitment in US dental, medical, and nursing schools, and how does social mission performance compare across school types? Findings In this survey study of 689…
Dr. Rogers’ prescient insights about the challenges we face in building a social mission movement are timely today in light of the changes in attitudes in the post-Trump era. Denise V. Rogers MD offers insights and articulates challenges to building a movement for social mission in health professions education at the 2015 Beyond Flexner Alliance Conference….
As federal officials determine when and how to reopen the country, numerous public health experts fear that the United States is significantly short of the public health workers needed to mitigate another occurrence and properly perform contract tracing. On April 8, 2020 JAMA published an editorial co-authored by Dr. Josh Sharfstein and Dr. Howard Bauchner proposing a public health response…
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