Perspectives
A Word From the President
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
What Americans think about medical schools and teaching hospitals
by Darrell G. Kirch, MD, AAMC President and CEO
“That’s when I knew I wanted to be a doctor”
by Darrell G. Kirch, MD, AAMC President and CEO
Viewpoints
Monday, September 10, 2018
Healing the healers
by Jay M. Behel, PhD, and Adrienne S. Lawson, EdD
A disturbing number of students report being mistreated at some point during medical school. Restorative justice — an approach that brings together offenders and victims for honest dialogue — just might help.
Monday, August 13, 2018
“Until one day I stood on a bridge, looking down”
by Leonard Su, MD
A physician sounds the alarm on mental illness and his own escape from the depths of despair.
As a first-year resident at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), Travus White, MD, stood in a trauma bay, directing a team rushing to save a toddler with a life-threatening allergic reaction. As adrenaline coursed through his body, White scanned nearby carts for treatments. None, when administered, seemed to have any effect.
“What I remember the most was that the respiratory therapist kept saying, ‘He’s not breathing, he’s not breathing, he’s not breathing!’” notes White. But he pressed on, using the algorithm he’d learned in training. Soon the patient responded, and White shook off the stress as if waking from a dream.
In fact, the whole scenario had happened in White’s mind — thanks to a pair of virtual reality (VR) goggles and software developed with the help of CHLA educators. The patient and emergency staff were merely animations programmed to respond realistically to trainees’ split-second decisions.
Academic Medicine in the News
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Medical students march against domestic violence
In support of Domestic Violence Awareness Month and in recognition of the role that physicians play in identifying early signs of abuse, medical students from the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii at Manoa marched together in the 24th annual Men’s March Against Violence.
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Volunteers provide 520 children from Alabama with vision care
Medical students from the UAB School of Medicine completed a service learning project in partnership with FocusFirst by screening 520 children from 23 schools throughout Alabama for potential vision issues and identifying those children that need follow-up care.
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Students complete austere medicine capstone in Greenland
Two fourth-year students from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine spent four weeks in Greenland completing austere medicine capstone projects. The students lived and worked with clinic staff to learn more about the unique medical challenges physicians face when practicing in extremely isolated locations.
