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Disaster preparedness, What we have learned from COVID 19 pandemic [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Despite a joint recommendation in 2003 by the AAMC and CDC that bioterrorism and mass-casualty training be included in the medical school curriculum, few medical schools have incorporated formal disaster training. We aim to highlight educational gaps for future pandemic preparedness.

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Episode 176: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 8 – Towards Justice and Race Conscious Medicine

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Intersectionality : Race and racism intersect with socioeconomic status, education, geography, sexual orientation, religion, immigration status, gender and other identities with differential impact. The answer to this question may not be easily answered and may not always be found in the clinical setting.

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Influential women in the history of medicine

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

Blackwell played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social awareness and moral reformer, and promoted education for women in medicine through her inspirational book Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women.

Medical 40
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Episode 232: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 15 – Housing is Health: Racism and Homelessness – Clinician + Community Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Restrictive Housing Policy and Homelessness Today: Mr. Watts described how property tax laws give more public funding to school districts in higher socioeconomic neighborhoods than poorer neighborhoods, leading to worse educational outcomes and thus higher rates homelessness in low-income neighborhoods. By 2003, 37% were 50 and older.

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AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman

GeriPal

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Todd Semla, who is a clinical pharmacist and associate professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. And then there was a version in 2003 which Mark participated in and he since passed. So in those clinical situations, you should consider avoiding that drug.

Medical 97
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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

I would talk about this, except I was a clinician, and I’m seeing these folks in the hospital and in clinic. So we realized that we had a series of cross-sectional studies in San Francisco from the early 1990s to 2003. We looked at it and realized that in the early 1990s, 11% of folks were 50 and over, and by 2003, 37% were.