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Should Medical Schools Require Transgender Health Education?
Given the 1 million to 1.4 million transgender people in the United States, most physicians will have transgender patients at some point as part of their practice. Until recently, this situation often caused consternation and embarrassment for both the patient and the physician. I have had transgender patients tell me that a particular specialist “doesn’t […]
May 24, 2020
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Public Health Education Key for Growing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
A growing online movement has some medical professionals concerned the nation won’t achieve a herd immunity once a COVID-19 vaccine is developed, underscoring a need for better public health education and provider communication. Although support for vaccinations is generally high — a Gallup survey recently reported that 84 percent of adults agree it’s important children get vaccinated […]
May 24, 2020
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Noozhawk News Hosting Free Webinars on Mental Health, Education During COVID-19 Pandemic
Noozhawk News is hosting two free webinars next week focused on how the community is dealing with mental wellness and education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first session, at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 27, is entitled “Mental Wellness During the COVID-19 Crisis. Read More
May 24, 2020
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Some Colleges Are Already Planning for the Next Wave of COVID-19
Even as many colleges are struggling to figure out what the beginning of the new academic year will look like, a few have made public schedules for the next semester that already account for another wave of COVID-19 infections in the fall, which epidemiologists have said is more or less inevitable. The colleges that have […]
May 24, 2020
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Home But Not Safe, Some LGBTQ Young People Face Rejection From Families in Lockdown
Staying home and sheltering in place can be stressful for everyone. But for some college students who identify as LGBTQ, returning to family environments can be very difficult and even psychologically damaging, psychologists say. “A lot of young people when they make it to college are able, for the first time, really, to live their […]
May 18, 2020
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What Dr. Fauci Says About Students Returning to Campuses in the Fall
The prospect of a COVID-19 vaccine by colleges’ fall reopening time is “a bridge too far,’ said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s preeminent infectious diseases expert, at a Senate hearing on Tuesday, reported The Boston Globe. At the hearing, Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander asked Dr. Fauci, a key member of the president’s coronavirus task force, to look three […]
May 18, 2020
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Harvard Med School: Remote Instruction Only for Fall 2020’s Entering Classes
Harvard Medical School has decided that there will be remote instruction only for the entering classes in fall 2020 and for the school-directed external education programs that would have been held on campus. In a statement Wednesday, the school said it hopes to be able to hold in-person research and clinical training for returning medical and […]
May 18, 2020
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Experts Provide Mental Health Tips Amid Pandemic-Related Stressors
Over the last few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted the lives of people around the world. In the United States, the death rate has reached an upwards of 90,000 and the unemployment rate increased to 14.7% in April, according to Statista. With social distancing policies and stay-at-home orders in place throughout the country, schools […]
May 18, 2020
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How the Big Ten Is Making Mental Health a Growing Priority
Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren speaks of mental fitness with the intent and enthusiasm of a motivational speaker. The message is powerful — the message inherent in his decision to deliver it even more so. The first major public initiative of Warren’s tenure as only the sixth Big Ten Conference commissioner is directed toward neither […]
May 18, 2020
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Colleges Push Viral Testing, Other Ideas for Reopening in Fall. But Some Worry About Deepening the Health Crisis.
One afternoon this week, Celeste Torres, a sociology student at the University of California at San Diego, stopped by a self-serve testing station to perform a five-minute ritual that could hold the key to reopening college campuses nationwide amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Torres, who’s 27 and identifies with gender-neutral pronouns, used a cellphone to scan a […]
May 18, 2020
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Faculty Open Up About Mental Health Under the COVID-19 Pandemic
Michelle O’Malley and Matthew Helgeson, chemical engineering faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, are still adjusting to life under the coronavirus pandemic. For the married professors, this means running their respective research groups from home while also taking care of their almost-3-year-old son. Elliott, like most preschoolers, needs constant attention. Except during nap time. […]
May 18, 2020
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Trans Postdoc Claims Psychiatrists Were Biased Against Him
“It was one of the first graduations Ron Daniels was at. I got to shake his hand. Underneath the cap and gown, I was wearing a dress. At another graduation, I was wearing a shirt and tie. It felt full circle. At Hopkins, I had gotten a bachelor’s degree and a PhD — and a […]
May 11, 2020
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UC San Diego to Start Mass Testing of Staff and Students for COVID-19
The University of California San Diego will next week begin mass testing of students, faculty and staff for COVID-19 under a ‘Return to Learn’ program the institution hopes to extend to the fall if it reopens as planned, it said in a statement. CBS 8 called the program the first such plan on campus in […]
May 11, 2020
Disparities
14 Women of Color Medical Students and Graduates Who Matched Share on Soon Joining the Frontlines Amid COVID-19
This year March 20, 2020, marked the National Resident Matching Program’s annual day where thousands of medical students and graduates (44,959) from across the U.S. and around the world learned the U.S. residency programs that they would have the opportunity to train at for the next three to seven years. However, as the students and graduates would […]
May 11, 2020
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Opinion: UNR School of Medicine’s Dean on the Role a Medical School Plays in a Pandemic
The Washoe County Health District reported its first presumptive positive case of COVID-19 on March 5, 2020. What’s transpired since has presented extraordinary challenges to Northern Nevada, our state and all who live and work here. The University of Nevada Reno, School of Medicine (UNR Med) has a special, perhaps unique, role to play in […]
May 11, 2020
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In Reversal, Arizona Announces ‘Ongoing Partnership’ With University Coronavirus Modeling Experts
The Arizona Department of Health Services said on Thursday that it will have an “ongoing partnership” with the university experts who were producing COVID-19 modeling before being told on Monday by the department to “pause” their work. The abrupt turn comes after pressure from Democratic lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, and local and national media attention. […]
May 11, 2020
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University of Michigan Health System Lays Off 1,400 Health Care Workers
Michigan Medicine will lay off or furlough 1,400 health care workers to cope with $230 million in lost revenue during the COVID-19 crisis, the University of Michigan health system said Tuesday. The losses projected through the fiscal year that ends on June 30 are expected to continue into 2021, the health system said in a press […]
May 11, 2020
Disparities
Study Finds Fewer Minority Nurses Come From Michigan Nursing Programs
LANSING — Colleges and university nursing programs in Michigan produce fewer minority graduates than those in many other states, according to a study by the Women’s Institute for Science, Equity and Race. No Michigan programs made the top-50 lists for minority nursing graduates overall or for African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans and Native Americans. Programs […]
May 11, 2020
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