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Differences in medical education before, during, and in the post-peak period of the COVID-19 pandemic —exploring senior medical students’ attitudes
The burden that COVID-19 has brought to the economy, healthcare systems, and education is unmatched. Public health and social measures were implemented to halt transmission. Thus, social gathering and in-perso...
Source: BMC Medical Education - July 13, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Bryan F. Vaca-Cartagena, Erika Quishpe-Narv áez, Heidi Cartagena Ulloa and Jenny Paola Estévez-Chávez Tags: Research Source Type: research
A systematic review of online education initiatives to develop students remote caring skills and practices
Med Educ Online. 2022 Dec;27(1):2088049. doi: 10.1080/10872981.2022.2088049.ABSTRACTThe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has altered caring professions education and the range of technological competencies needed to thrive in today's digital economy. We aimed to identify the various technologies and design strategies being used to help students develop and translate professional caring competencies into remote working environments. Eight databases were systematically searched in February 2021 for relevant studies. Studies reporting on online learning strategies designed to prepare students to operate in emerging digital economies...
Source: Medical Education Online - June 13, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Lorelli Nowell Swati Dhingra Sandra Carless-Kane Claire McGuinness Alessandra Paolucci Michele Jacobsen Diane L Lorenzetti Liza Lorenzetti Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci Source Type: research
Hospitalists ’ Reflections Offer Hope and Optimism for the Coming Years
As we come to the close of 2022, we take a moment to reflect on what we’ve learned these last few years, and more importantly, what new challenges and opportunities lie ahead. We spoke with hospitalists and leaders from a variety of institutions to get their feedback. The views they’ve shared are their own and not those of their institutions.
Dr. Thompson
Rachel Thompson, MD, MPH, FACP, SFHM, SHM president, is the chief medical officer at Snoqualmie Valley Hospital and Public Health District in Snoqualmie, Wash.
Dr. Thompson says the most important lesson hospitalists have learned in the last three years is that the...
Source: The Hospitalist - December 1, 2022 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Ronda Whitaker Tags: Hospital Medicine Leadership People in HM Source Type: research
COVID-19: Lessons from the Losses
Clementine, a community health volunteer, meets with a mother and child. Credit: Lys Arango for Action Against Hunger, KenyaBy Dr Patrick AmothNAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 7 2020 (IPS) If countries considered Universal Health Coverage (UHC) a central policy in their health systems, the COVID-19 has surely demonstrated the need for its urgent and widespread roll out. The pandemic has upended world systems in a manner that no scientists or sophisticated global intelligence could have foreseen.
Having been tapped to join the World Health Organization’s Executive Board to represent Africa midst this global crisis, I am persuaded tha...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 7, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Dr Patrick Amoth Tags: Africa Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Labour TerraViva United Nations Trade & Investment Source Type: news
28666 Global initiatives in dermatology and education
We present an international exchange program with a videoconferencing series that allows residency programs to sustain international educational partnerships during COVID-19 and thereafter.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology - August 8, 2021 Category: Dermatology Authors: Ciara Grayson, Olabola Awosika, Ellen Pritchett Source Type: research
Call for Urgent Action by 275 World Leaders on Global Education Emergency In Face of Covid19
Credit: UNICEF Mali / DickoBy External SourceNEW YORK, Aug 18 2020 (IPS) We write to call for urgent action to address the global education emergency triggered by COVID-19. With over 1 billion children still out of school because of the lockdown, there is now a real and present danger that the public health crisis will create a COVID generation who lose out on schooling and whose opportunities are permanently damaged. While the more fortunate have had access to alternatives, the world’s poorest children have been locked out of learning, denied internet access, and with the loss of free school meals – once a lifelin...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 18, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Economy & Trade Education Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Source Type: news
Education Cannot Wait Interviews The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of ECW ’s High-Level Steering Group
By External SourceFeb 10 2022 (IPS-Partners)
ECW: You played a critical role in establishing Education Cannot Wait just five years ago. As the Chair of ECW’s High-Level Steering Group, what are some of the key successes achieved by ECW over the last five years; and what needs to be done in the next five years as we approach the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development deadline?
The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown: Education Cannot Wait has had to deal with increasingly difficult challenges, from Myanmar, Syria and Yemen to the Sahel and now Afghanistan. Yet it is delivering beyond all expectations – with speed in its huma...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 10, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Aid Education Education Cannot Wait. Future of Education is here Health Poverty & SDGs Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Source Type: news
Education Cannot Wait Interviews UNICEF Executive Director Catherine M. Russell
On 24 February 2022 in Afghanistan, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell listens to a girl reading from a textbook at a UNICEF-supported community-based school in Kandahar’s Dand district. Credit: UNICEF/Omid Fazel By External SourceJun 7 2022 (IPS-Partners)
Catherine M. Russell became UNICEF’s eighth Executive Director on 1 February 2022.
Ms. Russell brings to the role decades of experience in developing innovative policy that empowers underserved communities around the world, including high-impact programmes that protect women and girls, including in humanitarian crises. She has extensive experience bu...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 7, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Armed Conflicts Climate Change Economy & Trade Education Education Cannot Wait. Future of Education is here Gender Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Migration & Refugees Poverty & SDGs Sustainability Education Cann Source Type: news
Future of Education Is Here
Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot WaitBy Yasmine SherifNEW YORK, Aug 19 2020 (IPS) There are moments when the world has no choice but to come together. Those moments become historic turning points. This is one of them. We are now faced with the greatest education emergency of our time. Over one billion children are out of school. The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented crisis of such magnitude and depth that the next generation might neither have the capacity and tools, nor the will, to rebuild – let alone build back better.
Yasmine Sherif
The world has not planned well for the future. At its w...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 19, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Yasmine Sherif Tags: Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Featured Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity TerraViva United Nations Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Source Type: news
International Women ’s Day, 2021Every Girl Has a Right to An Education
The following opinion piece is part of series to mark the upcoming International Women’s Day, March 8.By Yasmine SherifNEW YORK, Mar 7 2021 (IPS) Access to an inclusive quality education is a universal human right. When the inherent right to a good education is ignored or denied, the consequences are severe. For a girl in country of conflict or forced displacement, the impact is brutally multiplied.
Yasmine SherifBesides their already marginalized role in war-torn countries or as refugees, adolescent girls and girls are being disproportionately affected by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even before the pande...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Yasmine Sherif Tags: Armed Conflicts Economy & Trade Education Featured Gender Gender Violence Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Labour Migration & Refugees TerraViva United Nations Women & Economy Women in Politics Source Type: news
Afghanistan ’s Girls Need our Unwavering Support in Education
By Yasmine SherifNEW YORK, Sep 9 2021 (IPS) The Taliban takeover of government in Kabul is just days old, and the eyes of Afghans and the world are cautiously watching and hopeful to see them stand by their word and ensure that girls’ education be promoted and protected.
Yasmine SherifTwenty years ago, under the Taliban regime which prevailed from 1996 to 2001, schooling for girls was banned, although private home-based classes for girls were allowed in some parts of the country. From 2001 onwards the enrolment of girls and boys in schools saw steady gains in Afghanistan, accompanied by a large intake of female teachers...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 9, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Yasmine Sherif Tags: Armed Conflicts Asia-Pacific COVID-19 Economy & Trade Education Education Cannot Wait. Future of Education is here Featured Headlines Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Religion TerraViva United Nations Education Cannot Wait (EC Source Type: news
Inclusive Education to Break the Cycles of Poverty
Street Library in Mayotte, July 2016. Credit: François Phliponeau/ATD Fourth World - Centre Joseph Wresinski By Olivier De Schutter and Donald LeeNEW YORK, Oct 15 2021 (IPS) In September 2021, children in the northern hemisphere returned to school after the summer break. For some, the end of the holidays signaled a return to normalcy and to the joys of learning after facing months of school closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. For the majority of children in the Global South, however, the return to reality looked grimmer.
Digital divide leaving billions behind
Many children have been unable to pursue their education du...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 15, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Olivier De Schutter and Donald Lee Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Financial Crisis Global Headlines Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity Labour Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
The Government of Kenya and UN commit to expanding education, training and employment opportunities for young people, on an unprecedented scale
By PRESS RELEASENAIROBI, Kenya, May 15 2020 (IPS-Partners) Hon. Joseph Mucheru, Cabinet Secretary for ICT, Innovation and Youth, (CS) and Kenya’s representative in the Generation Unlimited (GenU) Global Board convened today the UN Kenya Country team to identify opportunities on how to swiftly expand education, training and employment opportunities for young people, on an unprecedented scale.
Credit: UNDP KenyaThe meeting was graced by Ms. Ruth Kagia, Deputy Chief of Staff in the Executive Office of the President, and Co-Chair of the National Generation Unlimited Steering Committee. Others in attendance at this meeting i...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: PRESS RELEASE Tags: Education Health Source Type: news
Pay and pensions issues prompt higher education strike
Staff are striking at 11 universities and higher education institutions from today (Monday) over a range of issues including pay and pensions, UNISON says.
Action will take place on several days over the next fortnight at Birkbeck, SOAS, City, King’s College London, Goldsmiths (all University of London), Trinity Laban, Brighton University, Edinburgh Napier University, Gloucestershire University, Leeds University and Queen Margaret University.
Staff at nine of the institutions have voted to strike over a pay offer of 1.5%. In addition, three universities will be taking industrial action on changes to their pension, the Un...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - February 21, 2022 Category: Food Science Authors: Anthony Barnes Tags: News Press release higher education pay USS Source Type: news
