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Training a diverse physician workforce: a survey of alumni of a medical education program focused on underserved populations [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Concerns about declining diversity among medical students have emerged due to the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against race-based affirmative action in college admissions. Medical schools must now eliminate race or ethnicity considerations, making it imperative to develop innovative approaches to preserve recent progress.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

In 2013, only 56 percent of Americans owned a smartphone, which climbed to around 90% by now. Usually, patients go to their primary care physician for advice or try to ask in the pharmacy on the corner what the smiling pharmacists recommend. It’s a jackpot software for eczema troubles.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians. Graduated in 2013, did a two-year clinician educator track. We can train medical students and residents about geriatrics without geriatricians. Everybody’s saying respond.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. So, for the two studies, I’ll mention, we use data from the precipitating events project at Yale, which is Tom Gill’s amazing cohort, where they followed a cohort of initially non-disabled community dwell and older adults with monthly measures of function.