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BMC's Health Fellowship program appears to be a win-win for all! It sounds like they used social determinant research, addressed staffing and patient needs simultaneously, and led with compassion. We often hear about tech innovation, but I found this to be a great reminder that innovation takes many forms, and no matter the form, a human-centric approach can serve all innovation. #HealthcareInnovation #PatientEngagement #SocialDeterminants #CompassionateCare

🇨🇦 Learn about surgical care services in Indigenous communities! 🌏 In the course SURG 518: Surgical Care in Canada’s Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities with Global Comparisons students will critically examine the historical and current state of surgical care services to Indigenous communities. By drawing on Indigenous voices, participants will delve into the challenges and opportunities faced by clinicians and service delivery systems in both Canada and globally. This course is designed for students to foster a deep understanding of the complexities surrounding surgical care. The course will be instructed by four brilliant professors: Dr. Nadine Caron, Dr. Jessica Chan, Dr. Ryan Falk, and Dr. Melanie Morris. By the end of this course, students will have a greater understanding of the integration of surgical care delivery in high-income countries, learn about unique social circumstances influencing healthcare for Indigenous individuals in remote communities, and more! Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gE_xzT7r 📢 Hear from Our Students: “It has stimulated thinking in a different perspective taking into consideration the inherent and indirect causes that are strongly causing poor access to surgical care in Canada and other HICs.” #GlobalSurgicalCare #SURG518

Join Our Critical Conversations Webinar Series! 🌟 🗓️ Save the Date: November 15, 2023 🕒 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST / 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST 📍 Where: Zoom 📚 Sharpen Your Knowledge! 📚 Welcome to our Critical Conversations Webinar Series, a journey through the evolving landscape of medical residency selection in the Post-US Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decision Era. In our upcoming webinar, we're thrilled to introduce our guest speaker, Dr. Diana Coffa, Residency Program Director at UCSF Family and Community Medicine. Dr. Coffa will share her invaluable insights into promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in healthcare. 💡 Join us as we explore the transformative discussions surrounding holistic review processes, the significance of affirmative action, and the impact on patient outcomes. 👥 Who Should Attend? 👥 👩⚕️ Medical Residency Selection Committee Members 🏨 Residency Program Leaders 👨⚕️ Reviewers and Evaluators 👩🎓 Anyone Passionate About Promoting Equity in Medical Education Don't miss out on this opportunity to be part of a conversation that shapes the future of healthcare. Reserve your spot and get a FREE companion ebook from our online learning platform, Critically Conscious Connections, designed to enrich your knowledge and resources in the DEIA field. https://lnkd.in/d3qUFZxx Let's engage, explore, elevate, and evolve together! Stay tuned for more updates as we build up to this critical discussion. #CriticalConversations #DiversityInHealthcare #MedicalResidency #EquityAndInclusion #SWCWebinar

Plans for Warneford Park took a step forward as partners in the project signed a Conditional Option Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding, agreeing how they will work together going forward. If plans are approved, Warneford Park will provide a new mental health hospital alongside a major brain health research and innovation campus and a new postgraduate medical college of the University. This hub will aim to tackle some of the most important issues in brain health by discovering new drug therapies, and new forms of treatment which will have a positive impact on patient care not just here in Oxfordshire, but across the NHS and globally.  To make this vision a reality Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust are working in partnership with the University of Oxford and a philanthropist. Professor Keith Channon, Director of the Oxford Academic Health Partners, which brings together Oxford’s NHS hospitals and universities to facilitate partnerships for research, education, and clinical delivery, said: “Warneford Park’s compelling plans combine Oxford’s strengths in multi-disciplinary research with new in-patient services and clinical training to create a brain sciences campus with potential national and international significance. This transformation is strongly supported by Oxford Academic Health Partners.” ➡ Read more: https://lnkd.in/eGZRRduP

One reason that Mathew Alexander, MD, MPP, Alister Martin, & I went to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government was because of physician alums like David Blumenthal, Don Berwick, and Raul Ruiz who are tackling important health issues. So, we (+Jesper K.) asked ourselves: what do physicians with a policy degree end up doing? Link: https://bit.ly/4c46JBR We found that more and more physicians are pursuing policy training. From 1960-2022, the number of physicians pursuing a policy degree steadily increased. If current trends continue, even more physicians will complete a policy degree from 2020 to 2029. We also found that 93% of physicians who obtain a policy degree pursue a clinical residency and most also maintain an active medical license. Internal medicine, surgery, and emergency medicine residencies were the most commonly chosen. About 1/3 become primary care providers! Interestingly, these physicians are more likely to hold positions in academia, clinical leadership, and the private sector than in nonprofits and government. This is potentially concerning given the role of the public and nonprofit sectors in delivering and managing health. We discuss these findings, their implications, and our recommendations here: https://bit.ly/4c46JBR Many thanks to the Harvard Kennedy School for their support, Ivan Lopez for his guidance, and the entire team for their incredible work. cc: Neel Shah, Dhruv Khullar, Atul Nakhasi, MD, MPP, Jamaji C. Nwanaji-Enwerem, MD. PhD. MPP., Raquel Sofía Sandoval, Okechi Boms, LaShyra “Lash” Nolen, MD, MPP, Ayotomiwa Ojo, Jalen Benson, Jay Bhatt, Rishi Wadhera, Alex Pomerantz

WHY DO WE WASTE TIME ON HUMANISM & EMPATHY IN HEALTHCARE? Jonathan Low, MBA tells us why 👇 He is a 2nd year medical student and he worked with me in my public health research lab this summer with Meharry Research and Innovation at Meharry Medical College and Clinical Research Associates, Inc. He shared his thoughts and personal journey in the Tennessean this past week 👍 👏 Let Jonathan Low, MBA know what you think in the comments below and learn more about our new Meharry Institute of Global Health Equity. https://lnkd.in/gX27iuUK

One of the most important aspects of doing research in VA is impact—either through changes to policy or clinical practice. In many research environments, research results disappear into a vacuum, but in VA, there is a collaborative effort that includes a warm handoff of research to operations. We honor that impact each year in our System Impact award, and this year, the kudos go to Seppo Rinne, MD, of the VA HSR Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, and Leslie Hausmann, PhD, of the VA HSR Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion. https://lnkd.in/gibFJVau

The ACB published our own response earlier this year, welcoming the recognition of the crucial role healthcare scientists play in the majority of diagnoses and the principles of 'train, retain and reform' laid out in the plan. https://lnkd.in/ePSYJnty On the IBMS plan, Katharine Hayden, ACB President comments: The IBMS Long Term Biomedical Scientist Workforce plan highlights the need to support the training and development of Biomedical Scientists, particularly in increasing Advanced Biomedical Scientist roles, to assist in addressing the current workforce gaps. Our data has also demonstrated static numbers of Clinical Scientists and Medical staff in Laboratory Medicine despite ever-increasing demands for services. Changes to population demographics, a shift to prevention, and continued developments in research and technology will continue to require a well-trained and growing laboratory medicine workforce of all professions working together. The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan recognises the need to increase the number of training places for clinical scientists. There is an additional requirement for continued workforce upskilling to fulfil predicted shortfalls in medical consultants in Laboratory Medicine. The ACB is keen to work with the IBMS to achieve prescribing rights for biomedical and clinical scientists via the Human Commission for Medicines and with the Department of Health to take the recommendations to Parliament as a Statutory Instrument to approve in legislation, and to support plans for developing the future Laboratory Medicine workforce that will be key to meeting the challenges placed on it and achieving the highest quality of laboratory testing and patient care.

Washington University in St. Louis developed the Translational Science Benefits Model, which identifies 30 benefits of clinical and translational research in four domains, including: clinical, community, economic and policy. The Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Northern Ohio‘s Research Equity, Accessibility, Diversity, and Inclusion (READI) program focuses on the impact of research on policy in its READI Research Policy Impact series. Policies are defined as procedural rules formally adopted and mandated by governmental agencies or private or nonprofit organizations. There are big “P” policies (i.e., governmental) and little “P” policies (i.e., non-government organization). Examples of little “P” policies include hospital policies. Members of the community can explore this topic during the first 2024 webinar of the READI Research Policy Impact series. Khaliah Fisher-Grace, PhD, RN, System Director of Policy at University Hospitals, will present “Translational Science Benefits Model: Policy – Hospital System Policies” Thursday, Jan. 25, from noon to 1 p.m. via Zoom. 📌 Register at: https://lnkd.in/gTnFRTWQ

Introducing our 2024 #Perinatal and #Neonatal Safety Fellows! Upon completion of this year-long fellowship program this distinguished group will be well-positioned to lead improvement and drive organizational change using quality and safety science. Meet Shayna Martinovich, from Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center. Shayna's project is titled "Let’s Get Moving! Physiologic Birth on NTSV (Nulliparous, Term, Singleton, Vertex) Outcomes." It will focus on decreasing the NTSV c-section rate by encouraging physiologic birth techniques such as use of #doulas, ambulation, peanut ball, and Spinning Babies®. #patientsafety