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5 months agoWhen doctors ignore pronouns, patients pay the price. Here's why
Healthcare providers should use gender-affirming language to create supportive environments for LGBTQ+ patients.
America First Legal alleges that Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has entrenched discriminatory practices under the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion, violating civil rights laws.
Although future studies need to examine the cause of these disparities in attrition, LGB students experience discrimination within medical training environments, which may lead to risk of attrition.
Medical school has been filled with late nights in the library, reading up on new literature and guidelines and diverse encounters with a wide variety of patients. But most importantly, the last four years have solidified my place in the medical field, alongside the lifelong friends I have made and the incredible attendings, residents, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, and dietitians I have had the pleasure of working with.
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Neurosurgery is not an easy match; leading up to this day I wondered whether or not I could even get into the program - it's really competitive - whether I was even going to match in neurosurgery, now here we are: my family is with me.
This year, we induct the 122nd class of Alpha Omega Alpha here at Northwestern, where we honor students, faculty and house staff for their outstanding achievements in their educational journeys and in their professions.
This program has been wonderful for student education, and it's provided a basis for the medical students to also do research, but most importantly it's helping people who need it the most in our communities.
Michael Bloomberg's $600 million donation to historically Black medical schools aims to increase the number of Black doctors, but relies on the flawed premise that racial concordance alone improves health outcomes.
No one in my family is in medicine, so putting the coat on for the first time meant a lot to me," said Ellen Li, a first-year student in the Medical Scientist Training Program ( MSTP). "It felt like a weight of responsibility, but also a joy of the future - not knowing where my path might go, but feeling that I have a responsibility to help others. That's something I've wanted for my whole life."