COVID underlines value of humanities in medical education
Towards the end of January 2015, Professor Jenna Healey, Jason A Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, ended her lecture to the third-year medical students on the history of epidemics by projecting a slide of the Ebola virus above her as she recapped the top 10 things they needed to know.
The following year, she spoke beneath a picture of the Zika virus.
On 27 January 2020, a picture of the novel coronavirus that had recently been identified in Wuhan, China, filled the screen above her as she made her last point about epidemics: “This will happen again, and it will happen to you.”
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Rowan Offers Incentives to Get Vaccinated
May 7, 6:15 a.m. Rowan University has announced a vaccine requirement for students who live or study on campus, and some incentives for getting the vaccine,
“Our message today is simple. We believe the path to normalcy is through widespread vaccination and we want our entire community to commit to reaching the goal of widespread vaccination,” Rowan president Ali A. Houshmand said in a letter. “If we work together, we can reach this goal and offer the Rowan University experience that our students and employees deserve.”
Published May 08. 2021 12:01AM
Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco, The Washington Post
As a clinical psychologist, I ve marveled at how my patients worries have shifted as the pandemic has dragged on.
Initially, when we naively believed the coronavirus would be a short-term stressor, my patients fears focused on day-to-day survival: How do I get toilet paper? How do I keep my kid from touching her face? Several months in, the focus has shifted to anxiety about decisions: Should I send my kid to school? Should I return to the office?
Now that more people are getting vaccinated and a return to somewhat-normal life is on the horizon, my patients anxieties have morphed once again, with many of them fretting about how they will reenter public life after having avoided it for a year. While they ve been outwardly rejoicing about the world reopening, they ve been privately panicking.
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