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Medical student Kimberly Ha
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To teach patients healthy habits, students first teach themselves

Students at Eastern Virginia Medical School have created nutrition modules that equip medical students to provide cooking and exercise classes to patients.

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Sacramento medical students leave the clinic to treat the homeless
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Sacramento medical students leave the clinic to treat the homeless

UC Davis med students are working to bridge the gap in health care to homeless individuals by bringing the clinic to them.

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Portrait of David B. Nash, MD
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Population health should be major focus in remaking med ed

Population-health expert David Nash, MD, says it is time for medical schools to help “retool the factory floor for the future.”

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Physician treats young patient in makeshift clinic.
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Going beyond clinic’s 4 walls to address health’s social roots

Addressing health’s social determinants means confronting the reality that a patient’s health is not treated exclusively within an office setting.

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Overhead view of people lined up in a crowd.
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Population health management makes its way to med school

A better understanding of data and the social determinants of health can help tomorrow’s physicians improve health at the community level.

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Students studying notes on glass wall.
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Patient safety culture should start in medical school

A new textbook helps physicians-in-training understand how systems can contribute to medical errors and how to handle such incidents and near misses.

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Smiling physician listens to a patient.
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Educators should tap learners’ insights, med students argue

Being partial outsiders, medical students and residents have useful insights into medical education, argues a recent commentary in the journal Academic Medicine.

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Nicole Paprocki and Carol Platt, second-year medical students.
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To address health disparities, med students connect with kids

“Mini med school” projects inspire disadvantaged youth to consider health careers and help medical students get to know underserved communities.

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Four people gather around a computer for teamwork.
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What airplane deicing has to do with teamwork in health care

The teamwork approach exemplified by “high-reliability” industries, such as aviation, is now being integrated into medical education.

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