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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. The University of California recognized this imperative and has supported the Programs in Medical Education (PRIME).

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Differences between Residents by How They Matched into Family Medicine: Does SOAP make a difference? [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: In the US, medical students enter residency through The Match. Setting or Dataset: 2023 American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) National Resident Survey (NRS) administered in October 2023 at the end of the ABFM In-Training Exam (ITE) merged with ABFM administrative data. Bivariate and logistic regression.

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Dashboard of Advancement and Success for Health Services Research (DASH) 2.0 [Research capacity building]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: The Lehigh Valley Practice and Community Based Research Network(LV-PCBRN) conducts weekly meetings to engage members in discussion about active and future research, and quality improvement projects conducted by colleagues, residents, and medical students.

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Episode 269: Neurology VMR – Headache and altered mental status

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Neurology DDx Schema Valeria Roldán @valeroldan23 Valeria is a medical student at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Her interests include neuro-infectious diseases, transgender health and medical education. Aaron Berkowitz. This time,Valeria presents a case of headache and altered mental status to Joy and Mattia.

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Dr. Paul Thomas Gives the Welcome to Detroit Lecture for Incoming Class of 2027 at WSU SOM

Plum Health

These medical students will be immersed in the Detroit community over the next 4 years, and upon graduation, many of them will continue to serve the Detroit and Metro Detroit community. WSU SOM’s incoming class of 2026 had 300 Students, with 192 in-state and 108 out-of-state students.

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Primary care for all Americans

Common Sense Family Doctor

In 2023, a decade after the Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid and began offering subsidized private insurance options in national and state-run marketplaces, the share of the population with health insurance reached 92.5% - the highest ever. Nevertheless, the U.S. is at the threshold of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

Recent data shows that about half of physicians (45.2%) reported symptoms of burnout in 2023 —and according to a 2023 study published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association,” one-third of surveyed doctors considered leaving medicine behind.