Empowering Trainees to be Leaders and Change Agents

We described several wellness initiatives that were done at individual campuses. The University of Illinois where I attend, we had a wellness committee that we formed led by students. We were able to partner with local companies to bring in more healthy food options. We were able to set up a counseling center dedicated specifically towards medical trainees. Joe Geraghty: And so that’s at the institutional level, but then in our local community, we had several letters from places like the University of Chicago. We had a medical student who wrote about how they were developing kind of like easy to digest infographics related to the ever-changing information with the COVID-19 pandemic and how that was able to disseminate this information in real time to the community. Joe Geraghty: And then I think if we zoom out even further, in looking at the national level, we had several letters that were talking about really addressing issues related to race-based calculations and how they’ve been kind of improperly used and incorporated into various calculations. The one we talked about and that we had letters were the estimated glomerular filtration rate, or eGFR, and I’m sure Lala can talk more about that. But also the USMLE, we’ve had huge changes with Step 1 becoming pass/fail, Step 2 CS being discontinued, and student voice has been instrumental in calling for those changes and guiding those changes in terms of making sure that us as the end users a...
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