The Bay Area Reporter recently shared news of a fresh collaboration between the Pacific Center (the oldest LGBTQ center in the San Francisco Bay area) and the Suitcase Clinic (a humanitarian student organization based at the University of California, Berkeley). Called the LGBTQI Suitcase Clinic, this new collaboration is a free, bi-weekly drop-in clinic that provides culturally competent medical … [Read more...] about Ending Health Disparities Among LGBT People: A Step in the Right Direction
Medical education
Bridging Doctors’ Nutrition Knowledge Gap: Progress in New Orleans
Two years ago, the New York Times’ Dr. Pauline Chen wrote a highly-cited column. In it, she called on medical schools to make nutrition education a larger part of their curriculum so that future physicians can better address their patients’ health needs: Research has increasingly pointed to a link between the nutritional status of Americans and the chronic diseases that plague them. Between the … [Read more...] about Bridging Doctors’ Nutrition Knowledge Gap: Progress in New Orleans
Schweitzer Fellow Weighs in on “Cultivating More Empathetic, Selfless Healthcare Providers” for the American College of Physicians
We've written before about Houston Schweitzer Fellow Joshua Liao, who -- along with Schweitzer Fellow Revathi Jyothindran -- dramatically increased the rate of follow-up care for newly-diagnosed HIV patients in Houston. In a recent issue of IMPact (the medical student newsletter of the American College of Physicians), Liao reflects on the ways in which medical education can and should focus on … [Read more...] about Schweitzer Fellow Weighs in on “Cultivating More Empathetic, Selfless Healthcare Providers” for the American College of Physicians
Making Compassion Part of the Curriculum
I've written before on this blog about the importance -- and potentially transformative power -- of compassion, and about how ASF's programs are designed to reinforce that importance and awaken that power. (In fact, the theme of next month's Fellows for Life Conference is "Creating Change Through Compassionate Service.") Over the weekend, in an article entitled "Medical School Reinvented" that's … [Read more...] about Making Compassion Part of the Curriculum