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>Pathways to Primary Care - Charting trajectories from medical school graduation through specialty training [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Policy solutions require insight into complex patterns of training from medical school graduation through specialty training into PC careers. Population Studied: US physicians who graduated from medical school 2001-2015. Context: Shortages of primary care (PC) physicians threaten access, quality, and equity in US healthcare.

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Buyer beware: 60% of foods purchased by Americans contain technical food additives, a 10% increase since 2001

Medical Xpress

This represents a 10% increase since 2001. in 2001 to 4.5 A new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has determined that 60% of foods purchased by Americans contain technical food additives including coloring or flavoring agents, preservatives, and sweeteners. in 2019.

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Remembering Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP

ABIM

Humphrey, MD, MACP, a nationally renowned leader in medical education and President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Holly had a long and meaningful relationship with ABIM dating back to her first days on the ABIM Board of Directors in 2001. Foundation, passed yesterday from pancreatic cancer.

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AMPLIFYâ„¢ Technology Enhances Prenatal Screening for 22q11.2 Microdeletion

Myriad Genetics

For example, Driscoll (2001) wrote on the benefits of early 22q detection: Couples can opt to pursue diagnostic testing. Genet Med   3 , 14–18 (2001). Previous data using other laboratory methods have yielded a PPV of approximately half that, around 53%. Performance of noninvasive prenatal screening for 22q11.2 2022;227(1):124-125.

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Episode 165: WDx #8 – Clinical unknown with Dr. Ann Marie Kumfer & Dr. Debra Bynum

The Clinical Problem Solvers

After completing medical school at Texas Tech University, she moved up to North Carolina for residency. From there, she came to Chapel Hill for medical school and stayed at UNC for residency training. Ann Marie Kumfer & Dr. Debra Bynum Want to test your learning?

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Full circle.

Reflections of a Grady Doctor

In 1992, I started at Meharry Medical College--the school that felt right but that I feared attending because, after Tuskegee University, it would be my second historically black college. In 2001, through a connection I made during my chief residency at CWRU, I applied for my dream job at Grady Hospital. Got an interview there.

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Episode 384: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 26 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 1

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.  American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.