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Schmerz
October 2024
Forschungsbereichsleitung Medizin und Versorgungsforschung, BARMER Institut für Gesundheitssystemforschung, Lichtscheider Straße 89, 42285, Wuppertal, Deutschland.
BMJ Lead
August 2024
Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Objective: Achieving gender equity in academic medicine is not only a matter of social justice but also necessary in promoting an innovative and productive academic community. The purpose of this study was to assess gender distribution in dual MD/PhD academic programme faculty members across North America.
Methods: Academic metrics were analysed to quantify the relative career success of academic faculty members in MD/PhD programmes.
PLOS Glob Public Health
March 2024
Department of Trauma, Burn, and Critical Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Interest in global surgery has surged amongst academics and practitioners in high-income countries (HICs), but it is unclear how frontline surgical practitioners in low-resource environments perceive the new field or its benefit. Our objective was to assess perceptions of academic global surgery amongst surgeons in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We conducted a cross-sectional e-survey among surgical trainees and consultants in 62 LMICs, as defined by the World Bank in 2020.
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February 2024
Department of Community Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education & Research (Deemed to be University), India. Electronic address:
About 65.5 % of the Indians live in rural areas while availability of healthcare is biased towards urban setups. Medicine in undergraduates is taught in ivory towers of medical colleges, a paradigm shift in teaching bedside medicine from these ivory towers to community level is required.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPushing back on policies favored by dying patients is a challenging endeavor, requiring tact, engagement, openness to bidirectional learning, and willingness to offer alternative solutions. It's easy to make missteps, especially in the age of social media. Holly Fernandez Lynch shares her experience learning with and from the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) community, first as a caricature of an ivory tower bioethicist and more recently as a trusted advisor, at least for some.
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