Background: Women with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) experience disparities in obstetric care access and quality, in addition to communication gaps with healthcare providers. Many obstetric providers are untrained and uneducated about critical aspects of providing care to persons with IDD. Objectives: The present study was condu...
What is Head Start? Head Start, a federally funded program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, promotes school readiness and family well-being in children from birth to age five who meet specific criteria. Lowell Head Start Partnership The Lowell Head Start program is engaged in efforts to combat the opioid epidemic after ...
Health knowledge and health literacy are important social determinants of health, and can have a major impact on the health and well-being of an individual. Health education, through formal classroom instruction, peer education, or community health fairs, has been effective in increasing health knowledge and literacy. Worcester, MA is home to many ...
Background: Burnout in medical school students is an ongoing, growing issue that can be exacerbated in the clinical years, however, there have been challenges addressing individual student needs due to the variance of wellness practices and academic constraints. Objective: To provide longitudinal support to third year medical students (MS3s) at the...
Objectives: The recent outbreak of the COVID-19 altered the traditional paradigm of clinical medical education. While individual clerkships have shared their curricular adaptations via social and academic networking media, there is currently no organizational standard in establishing a non-clinical, Emergency Medicine (EM) virtual rotation (VR). Th...
Despite the use of imaging in many medical and surgical practices, no universal mandatory radiology component is required by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. In contrast, United States medical students are required to complete at least one core subinternship during their final year of medical school in medicine, surgery, pediatrics, or f...
Published in Journal of medical education and curricular development
Out-of-pocket costs are a serious barrier to care and drive suboptimal medical therapy. Understanding of these costs can lead to care oriented around the limits they generate. Despite this, there is minimal attention paid to these costs in post-graduate education. To define a potential knowledge gap regarding costs experienced by patients by survey...
This is a lecture in the PEER Liberia Infectious Disease Lecture Series. This presentation provides an overview of: prevention and control of vaccine preventable diseases; global impact of vaccines - successes and challenges; and vaccine fundamentals - basic immunology, introduction to vaccinology.
Published in Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN
New treatments, new understanding, and new approaches to translational research are transforming the outlook for patients with kidney diseases. A number of new initiatives dedicated to advancing the field of nephrology-from value-based care to prize competitions-will further improve outcomes of patients with kidney disease. Because of individual ne...
Bronwyn Wada-Gill and Megan Hansen, University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) students in the Class of 2022, solicited creative works to commemorate the year 2020 through looking back. The 2020 Hindsight website explores the words, music, and photography that came from the collective hearts of the UMMS community.
