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Impact Over 3 Years of a Family Medicine-led Addiction Medicine Curriculum for Medical Students
CONCLUSIONS: Data from our LIC showed promise that the model can be effective in building confidence in students' abilities to practice addiction medicine. Because of its broad reach and low cost, this form of medical education may be a key model for medical schools to respond to the opioid epidemic and better serve our patients.PMID:37450939 | DOI:10.22454/FamMed.2023.234746
Source: Family Medicine - July 14, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Anne Keenan Elizabeth Sopdie Jack Keilty Kirby Clark Source Type: research

Teaching by example: educating medical students through a weight management experience.
CONCLUSIONS: Medical students completing a weight management experience during their third-year clerkship can see the effects on their own health while developing empathy for and understanding of the weight management struggles of their patients. Minimal faculty time commitment is required. PMID: 24129870 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Famly Medicine - September 1, 2013 Category: Primary Care Authors: Schmidt S, Rice A, Kolasa K Tags: Fam Med Source Type: research

Counties in California sue manufacturers of opioid analgesics
This week, two counties in California sues five manufacturers of opioid analgesics, accusing them of carrying out a “campaign of deception” to boost sales of their products. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times: In sweeping language reminiscent of the legal attack against the tobacco industry, the lawsuit alleges the drug companies have reaped blockbuster profits by manipulating doctors into believing the benefits of narcotic painkillers outweighed the risks, despite “a wealth of scientific evidence to the contrary.” The effort “opened the floodgates” for such drugs and “...
Source: The Poison Review - May 25, 2014 Category: Toxicology Authors: Leon Tags: Medical lawsuit opiates opioid analgesics pain as fifth vital sign Source Type: news

Academic Medical Support to the Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Liberia
During the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic in West Africa (2014–2016), many faculty, staff, and trainees from U.S. academic medical centers (i.e., teaching hospitals and their affiliated medical schools; AMCs) wished to contribute to the response to the outbreak, but many barriers prevented their participation. Here, the authors describe a successful long-term academic collaboration in Liberia that facilitated participation in the EVD response. This Perspective outlines the role the authors played in the response (providing equipment and training, supporting the return of medical education), the barriers they faced (l...
Source: Academic Medicine - November 30, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research

The Violence Epidemic in the African American Community: A Call by the National Medical Association for Comprehensive Reform.
Authors: Frazer E, Mitchell RA, Nesbitt LS, Williams M, Mitchell EP, Williams RA, Browne D Abstract While much progress has occurred since the civil rights act of 1964, minorities have continued to suffer disparate and discriminatory access to economic opportunities, education, housing, health care and criminal justice. The latest challenge faced by the physicians and public health providers who serve the African American community is the detrimental, and seemingly insurmountable, causes and effects of violence in impoverished communities of color. According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC),...
Source: Journal of the National Medical Association - March 8, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: J Natl Med Assoc Source Type: research

Study finds spending more time in education causes myopia (short-sight)
Myopia, or short-sight, is one of leading causes of visual disability in the world. The global prevalence is rising rapidly and has reached epidemic levels in the developed countries of East and Southeast Asia. Now a new study, led by the University of Bristol, has shed some light on why the length of time spent in education is a causal risk factor for myopia.
Source: University of Bristol news - June 6, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Health, Research; Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School; Press Release Source Type: news

Medical Training in the Maelstrom: The Call to Physician Advocacy and Activism in Turbulent Times
In this Invited Commentary, the author probes current events overlapping with his early medical education for unwritten lessons. Today’s generation of trainees studies the careful application of science to suffering in the roiling context of resurgent white supremacy, anti-immigrant hatred, climate disasters, contentious public health epidemics, and attacks on the structures undergirding access to health care for millions. The author reflects on the connections between sociopolitical events and his own experiences, as well as those of his classmates, friends, and family members. These experiences, he argues, have galvani...
Source: Academic Medicine - August 1, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Invited Commentaries Source Type: research

UNESCO, UNHCR & EDUCATION CANNOT WAIT Call for the Inclusion of Refugees in the Post-Covid-19 Education Effort
Angelina Jolie with Syrian refugees. Credit: UNHCR / Laban MatteiBy External SourceNEW YORK, Jul 14 2020 (IPS-Partners) We must not leave young refugees by the wayside, urged UNESCO, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Education Cannot Wait as they urged more support in favour of young refugees’ education during an online debate today, moderated by UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie, on how best to provide them with improved learning during and after the pandemic. “Mobilizing for refugees is extremely urgent at a time when they are particularly vulnerable to the Covid-19 crisis ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Education Health Migration & Refugees Source Type: news

Medical treatment and COVID-19 related worries in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
CONCLUSIONS: In this selected IBD population, medical IBD treatment was rarely stopped or paused during the initial phase of the COVID-19 epidemic even though 70% of the respondents expressed COVID-19-specific worries. These worries should, nevertheless, be addressed and the characteristics of the population who expressed concerns may be used in future targeted information to secure compliance.FUNDING: none.TRIAL REGISTRATION: not relevant.PMID:33660610
Source: Danish Medical Journal - March 4, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Anne-Mette Haase Niels Thorsgaard Anders Bergh L ødrup Source Type: research