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Future FIU docs celebrate early residency matches
All HWCOM medical students who participated were successful in the early match.
February 24, 2021 at 2:00pm
For medical students, graduation is only the beginning of years of training. Next comes residency in their chosen field of specialty. Each year thousands apply to residency programs, but there are more applicants than residency slots. Hence, the process is very competitive and sometimes nerve-wracking.
Match Day, celebrated nationally in March, is when most medical students learn which residency program they have “matched” into. They’ll have to wait until March 19 to find out.
Despite the constraints of wearing a face covering over mouth and nose all day long, many people could now be ready to adopt face masks long-term. AFP
The pandemic has shaken up many aspects of our day-to-day lives. From face masks to lockdowns to remote working, it sometimes feels like nothing will be as before.
While wearing a face mask currently still feels onerous and restrictive, many people could be ready to adopt them for good.
According to a recent survey, Americans appear to have decided that mask wearing is here to stay in public places, even when the pandemic is a distant memory.
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In early May, a wing of Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center was eerily empty. The space had been cleared of patients as the pandemic raged. But it wasn’t going to waste.
Inside, a group of nurse practitioners were playing a game of digital tag. Lauren Chrzanowski, who has type 1 diabetes, was wearing a continuous glucose monitor, an implant with a transmitter that sends real-time glucose measurements to a dedicated receiver when they’re close enough, anyway. On that day, she was trying to figure out just how far away her CGM could be from its receiver and still work.
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