In the interview, Dr. Klasko discusses why team-based care is a key component in the future of health care and why medical students and residents should be taught in medical school how to practice as team members with their medical colleagues and staff.
Education debt is driving medical school graduates away from underserved communities and primary care, both of which our country will sorely need in the coming years.
One of the major driving forces for migration by women is the availability of caregiving work in wealthier nations, so improving working conditions for migrant women and ensuring that elderly and other persons in need of care receive good care are intertwined goals.
Traci A. Wolbrink, MD, MPH and Jeffrey P. Burns, MD, MPH
Given the limited opportunities for experience in most pediatrics training programs, computer-based learning and simulation should be used to teach procedures before real patient encounters.
When ventilator support is being withdrawn from a dying child, responsive titration of sedative medications by the ICU team can relieve suffering without anesthetizing the child completely or hastening death.
When a severely ill child comes into the emergency room, assent for emergency care is no more required than is parental permission. Conveying the needed care is the top priority.
The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine Family Medicine Accelerated Track reduces costs while encouraging medical students to pursue family medicine.
Is it coercive or unfair for a state medical school to offer incremental tuition forgiveness for each year graduates practice primary care in the state?
Is it coercive or unfair for a state medical school to offer incremental tuition forgiveness for each year graduates practice primary care in the state?