Region 7 Spotlight
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, an important time to take a step back and educate ourselves regarding this important and frighteningly prevalent issue. One in four women will experience […]
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Team Mentoring: A New Approach For the 21st Century
Mentoring makes a profound difference. It influences careers, energizes discoveries and enhances professions. New students, practitioners and researchers need mentors to provide advice and guidance that helps move them forward. […]
Medical Research: Don’t Let This Pillar of National Pride Crumble
The return on investment is guaranteed — medical research saves lives, creates jobs, spurs innovation, reduces healthcare expenditures, advances competitiveness and improves the nation’s health and economic wellbeing. Yet the troubling reality is […]
Advocate or Student?
It’s laughable, really, to seriously try and compare my three-and-a-half months of clinical experience with the training of actual physicians. I’d like to think, however, that being so green gives […]
Constructive Criticism
I must admit that my recent experience blogging for the first time has been challenging . I struggle to strike the perfect balance when composing my entries. I sit down […]
Cellular Conundrum
Cell phones have become such a constant in our lives. I can hardly remember how I would pass the time without having a small cellular device to obsessively check upon […]
Superficial Vein Disease De-mystified
Superficial Vein Disease De-Mystified I still remember that night as a medicine intern in the ER when a surgical resident casually commented, “It’s really ironic that three of the most […]
Global Health News and Resources
Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy The World Bank Group has partnered with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) to release six regional reports: http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/publications/policy-reports […]
What’s In a Smile?
At a recent conference, I was speaking about communication in the healthcare setting and suggested that the major premise of Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Blink, has a lot to tell us about how […]
Region 8 Spotlight
This fall, The University of Arizona COM-Phoenix’s AMWA branch is screening a video on the film “Branded,” a 45-minute documentary film about the realities of sex trafficking in Phoenix. Sex […]