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A Call to Action: The Unified Front of #Students_Against_COVID

March 18, 2021March 26, 2021 Leah Sarah Peer 0 Comments

“Beyond borders, beyond languages, and beyond our differences students across the world have united with a common purpose to serve and create a positive impact. With over 1000 students comprising more than 90+ countries, #Students_Against_COVID, a grassroots movement has served as the cornerstone for creation, purpose, fulfillment and fostered collaborations throughout the world allowing students to join forces in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.” by Leah Sarah Peer

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Global Health Innovation Technology

How Remote Work Is Changing Medical Practice in the Era of Coronavirus

November 19, 2020November 19, 2020 arturmeyster 0 Comments

Societies across the world have been disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, with millions of people being forced to stay indoors

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Peer Med, Serving Humanity with Medicine: A Podcast by Leah Sarah Peer

November 16, 2020March 26, 2021 Leah Sarah Peer 0 Comments Conversations, Crisis, global health, humanism, Humanity, Narrative medicine, pandemic, Podcast, Service

A student-led initiative, the Peer Med podcast intertwines medicine, an ever changing science of diagnosis and treatment, with conversations about issues in healthcare where lives are on the line. Due to the fashionable focus of medical education on biology, pathology and disease there has been a reduced emphasis on the social determinants of health. As such physicians lack an empathetic character understanding the human aspect of medicine and in this, fail to communicate effectively rendering patients dissatisfied with care.

General Innovation

A Budding Clinician-Scientist

December 21, 2017December 14, 2017 Ian Wee 0 Comments Attitude, experience, Science, society

Before I embarked on my second year of medical school, I wanted to try something different — an experience I

Innovation Lecture

Drinking from a Fire Hydrant: Musings on Active Learning in Medical School

August 31, 2017August 23, 2017 Jordan Metsky 0 Comments medical school, medical student, Study

Almost everyone has seen a doctor at some point in their lives. Yet, for most, what actually goes on in

General Innovation Lifestyle Public Health

A New Type of Pharmacy – On Food Pharmacies and Their Importance for Type II Diabetics

May 19, 2016May 17, 2016 Manjit Bhandal 0 Comments Food pharmacy, Nutritionist, Pilot program, Prescription

In a world where drug companies and pharmacies remain pervasive, an innovative take on the word “pharmacy” is being developed

Clinical Innovation Opinion Technology

The 21st century Frankenstein Revival

January 14, 2016December 30, 2015 Josip A. Borovac 0 Comments Canavero, GEMINI, HEAVEN, Human head, Transplantation

Background Human head transplantation (the head anastomosis venture project – HEAVEN) has been for a long time merely a neurosurgical

Innovation Lifestyle

Pathographies

February 26, 2015February 25, 2015 Gunjan Sharma 0 Comments experience, Pathographies, patient

“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the

Clinical General Innovation Lifestyle MSPress Announcements Reflection

“The Five C’s” Dr. Georgette A. Dent, 2014 Commencement Address at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine

October 3, 2014October 3, 2014 Mica Esquenazi 0 Comments 2014 University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Dean Dent, Dent Commencement Speech, Dr. Georgette Dent, Georgette Dent, UNC COM Commencement

This week, Dr. Georgette A. Dent, Associate Dean for Student Affairs at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine

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“Timelessness in the Ever-Changing Medical Field” Dr. Abraham Verghese, 2014 Commencement Address at the Stanford University School of Medicine

September 26, 2014September 26, 2014 Mica Esquenazi 0 Comments Abraham Verghese, Dr. Abraham Verghese, Stanford Medical Commencement, Stanford School of Medicine Commencement 2014, Stanford Verghese, Verghese, Verghese Commencement 2014

Dr. Abraham Verghese, critically acclaimed author and widely respected clinician, is now featured in the Medical Commencement Archive. Dr. Verghese’s

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