Ninez Ponce receives Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award for work in health and data equity
“Without data equity, we will not achieve health equity.”Whether leading the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, teaching graduate students at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health or speaking with lawmakers in Sacramento or Washington, D.C., Ninez Ponce is widely esteemed for her decades-long dedication to turning this ideal into reality.In her work, Ponce has helped ensure public health data collection goes beyond just including historically underrepresented communities; she has centered these communities to understand their unique needs and developed health programs and policies to address them. In recogn...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 20, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering : Fall 2022
This report presents data from the 2022 Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering, sponsored by National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics within the National Science Foundation and by the National Institutes of Health. The tables show trends within science, engineering, and selected health fields on graduate student enrollment, postdoc appointments, and doctorate-holding nonfaculty researchers, as well as counts by selected characteristics, such as sex, ethnicity, race, citizenship, field of study, and source of financial support. (Source: NSF - Statistics on U.S. Science and Engineering Resources)
Source: NSF - Statistics on U.S. Science and Engineering Resources - March 20, 2024 Category: Statistics Source Type: news
Graduate Enrollment in Science, Engineering, and Health Continues to Increase among Foreign Nationals, while Postdoctoral Appointment Trends Vary across Fields
Between 2021 and 2022, graduate student enrollment in science, engineering, and health ( SEH ) fields increased by 5.0 % ( up 38,378 students ) , mostly due to an increase of 42,816 temporary visa holders enrolled in full-time master ’ s programs. Full-time SEH master ’ s enrollment in 2022 was 319,618, whereas full-time doctoral enrollment was 259,683, the highest number recorded in the Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering ( GSS ) . These and other findings in this InfoBrief are from the 2022 GSS, which is sponsored by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics with...
Source: NSF - Statistics on U.S. Science and Engineering Resources - March 20, 2024 Category: Statistics Source Type: news
The Unbearable Vagueness of Medical ‘Professionalism’
Since its inception, this murky term has straddled the dual role of disciplining and inspiring. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rachel E. Gross Tags: Ethics and Official Misconduct Social Media Customs, Etiquette and Manners Black People Doctors Discrimination Medical Schools Race and Ethnicity Dress Codes Minorities Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education New England Source Type: news
The doctor will... drive you now? Newly-qualified GP is working for Uber because they couldn't get a job (even though you've been waiting weeks for an appointment!)
The UK medical graduate, who qualified as a GP two years ago, has struggled to secure work as a locum or salaried GP. Now he is working as an Uber driver in the Midlands. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Radiology retains popularity in 2024 Main Residency Match
Although falling just short of the 100% rate achieved in the last two years, nearly all available resident positions for diagnostic and interventional radiology were filled on Match Day 2024 on March 15.
In announcing the results of the 2024 Main Residency Match, the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) noted that interventional radiology-integrated had the fifth-highest percentage (91.4%) among positions filled with U.S. MD and DO seniors.
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Radiology Education Source Type: news
Workforce Training Center in Chewelah Would Give Internships to Rural High Schoolers
Highlights a project to offer internships for rural high school students and create a training center in Washington for careers in health and other industries. Notes that the project may help keep students in the region once they graduate. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - March 17, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
High school students from all over the world flocked to Elk Grove for robotics competition
Bryan Gray twice competed in FIRST Robotics Competition when he was a student at Vanden High School in Fairfield. Every year after he graduated, for the last 20 years, Gray has continued to make the time to volunteer at the annual competition. FIRST means For Inspiration and Recognition of Science…#bryangray #vandenhighschool #fairfield #ucdavis #elkgrove #lucianmayersviseroy #pleasantgrove #idea #firstrobotics #teriabrahamzon (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The 16 worst-paying college majors, five years after graduation
Students who major in liberal arts, performing arts and theology earn the lowest salaries within five years of graduating from college, a recent New York Federal Reserve analysis reveals. All three majors made a median annual income of $38,000, the lowest out of the 75 majors in the study. Other…#uscensus #newyorkfed #earlybird (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘Don’t Worry, Sári’ Questions Familial Responsibilities and Urges One to Preserve Oneself
Being a family member is a role that changes all the time. Hungarian filmmaker Sári Haragonics has been reflecting on these shifts based on her own experience, losing her mother 13 years ago. In her graduation short “Coming Face to Face,” shot three years after her mother’s death, Haragonics…#hungarian #sáriharagonics #comingfacetoface #haragonics #maybeits #variety #worrysári #agoradocs #progress #hotdocs (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock: ‘I was underestimated as a child. I want to tell kids to reach for the stars’
The Sky at Night presenter on science, school and Star TrekBorn in London in 1968 to Nigerian parents, Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a scientist and presenter of The Sky at Night. She trained as a physicist – graduating from Imperial College London with a PhD in 1994, and working for the Ministry of Defence on landmine detection and missile warning systems. She has since designed a host of space instruments, become the first Black woman to win a gold medal in the Physics News Award and in 2013 took o ver fromPatrick Moore as a co-host of the BBC ’s long-running astronomy show. Aderin-Pocock is one of the panel...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 16, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Harriet Gibsone Tags: Life and style Family Space Science Source Type: news
‘The Greatest Hits’ Review: Music Makes the Heart Go ’Round in Clunky Remix of Better Rom-Coms
Music has an almost magical way of transporting us back to the moment in our lives when we heard it: the pop song that underscored your first kiss, the one that played at your graduation and so on. In mopey, dopey YA weepie “The Greatest Hits,” writer-director Ned Benson takes that idea as…#ya #greatesthits #nedbenson #lucyboynton #superman #davidcorenswet #losfeliz #silverlake #justinhmin #boynton (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Match Day 2024: Peds Takes a Hit, Emergency Med Recovers Match Day 2024: Peds Takes a Hit, Emergency Med Recovers
US medical school graduates get their 2024 residency offers as more pediatrics slots go unfilled, but emergency medicine recovers popularity.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Source Type: news
A treaty to prepare the world for the next pandemic hangs in the balance
“Me first”—that’s how Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), described the wealthy world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic when he kicked off negotiations for a global “pandemic treaty” in December 2021. Even before vaccines had proved safe and effective, rich countries had purchased enough doses to cover their entire population several times, whereas lower and middle-income countries had little or no vaccine. The pandemic treaty would address that searing inequity, Tedros vowed, along with many other problems identified during the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving the world bette...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 15, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
