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Countering Stereotypes of Women and Minorities in Medicine

Carrie Byington, MD, is Vice-dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development at the University of Utah School of Medicine and is concerned about stereotypes that mischaracterize the role of women and minorities in medicine. In this conversation, Dr. Byington discusses a print advertisement featuring a pregnant physician and how she hopes it will help counter the stereotypes. ... Read More

Population Health is Precision Medicine for Neighborhoods

What kind of change is coming to health care? Will AMC's close in the coming years? In the face of constrained payments, how will different models thrive? Mike Magill, MD and J. Lloyd Michener discuss the new role of primary care and academic medical centers in delivering population health.... Read More

A conversation with Wing of Zock

Jennifer Salopek is Managing Editor of Wing of Zock, a venue for people in academic medicine to share stories and to help academic medical centers (AMCs) prepare for health care transformation by sharing best practices. In this conversation, Jennifer talks about the origin of the blog, its name, and how they hope the blog will help shape the transformation of healthcare.... Read More

Medical Student Advocacy

Ajay Major is a self-described "medical student activist" and founder/co-Editor in Chief of in-Training.org. In this conversation, Ajay shares how he found his activist side, his goals for in-Training, and his view on the future of medicine. Ajay represents a small but potentially influential segment of the new generation of physicians currently in-Training. Listen in on the conversation here.... Read More

AAMC 2013: Wing of Zock

We all read the Wing of Zock blog but do you know the behind the scenes story? Founder Joanne Conroy, M.D., discusses what it takes to have a successful blog, why it can be a challenge to "get personal" with physicians, and what the most successful posts all have in common. ... Read More

Educating the Educators

How do we prepare Boomers to teach Millennials? Hint: the teacher isn't teaching if the learner isn't learning. Reaching the next generation of medical students: an interview with Kirtly Parker Jones, M.D., professor obstetrics and gynecology, University of Utah. ... Read More

Conversations: Darrell Kirch, M.D., President of AAMC

What is the "change imperative?" What are the most vexing problems facing academic medicine? Why MOOCs (massive open online courses) aren't threats, they're opportunities. Vivian Lee, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A, senior vice president for health sciences at the University of Utah, interviews Darrell Kirch, M.D., president and chief executive officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges, about the most important issues in academic medicine today. ... Read More
Prenatal Care: Breaking Through Tradition and Habit
Outcomes: Who's Responsible?

Prenatal Care: Breaking Through Tradition and Habit

Prenatal care is governed by medical dogma. Mothers first check in with their doctors around eight weeks’ gestation, setting in motion a regimented schedule of clinic visits and tests - prenatal labs, genetic screening, the clinical ultrasound, gestational diabetes testing, Group B Strep screening - that mark the long, 40-week march to a baby. ... Read More

Can the U.S. health care system be rescued by physicians?

President Obama's health care reform simply won't work, said Arnold Relman, M.D. , former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and professor emeritus of medicine and social medicine at Harvard Medical School. His complaint: It doesn't go far enough.... Read More

What can health care providers learn from car manufacturers about providing greater value?

Imagine a health care system with zero falls, no medication errors and not a single death from a hospital-acquired infection. Upholding health care's "do no harm" oath isn't easy in today's modern hospitals. In 1999, a landmark Institute of Medicine report found that as many as 98,000 patients died each year from preventable medical errors. Nearly a decade later, a 2010 investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services put that figure closer to 180,000 patients for Medicare beneficiaries alone, and estimated the annual hospital care costs for these events at $4.4 billion. ... Read More

Can scientific animations lead to new discoveries? Janet Iwasa, Ph.D., says next-generation visualization speeds research

Drawing pictures. As simplistic and unscientific as it sounds, pictures have been one of the most powerful tools scientists have used to help them understand and explain the unknown. Today, the rough sketches of centuries past have given way to elaborate computer animations that are helping researchers understand the inner workings of some of the most mysterious and miniscule science there is - that of cell processes deep within our bodies. ... Read More