Ann Schwartz, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of psychiatry residency education, received the Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award, which recognizes program directors who have fostered innovation and improvement in their residency/fellowship programs and served as exemplary role models for residents and fellows. The award is given to 10 program directors nationwide and is the top honor for a program director.
Sharon Ashley, senior program coordinator for emergency medicine education, received
the Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Award. The honor goes to program coordinators in recognition of their in-depth understanding of the accreditation process, excellent communication and interpersonal skills and projects to improve residency programs.
MetroHealth to launch new surgical residency program this summer
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MetroHealth will launch a new, fully accredited surgical residency program this summer in an effort to attract more top medical talent to Northeast Ohio by expanding surgery training opportunities, according to a news release.
MetroHealth has trained the surgical workforce for more than 60 years through partnerships. It is now accepting residents for its own program, which MetroHealth began designing last summer to replace a long-standing surgical residency partnership with University Hospitals that is coming to an end.
Built on the foundation of MetroHealth s Department of Surgery and the health system s affiliation with the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, the new program will enable MetroHealth to introduce resident physicians to the challenges and opportunities of practicing in an urban, mission-driven safety net public hospital setting, according to the release.
Five members of UChicago community receive Diversity Leadership Awards
Jan 12, 2021 Faculty, alumni, staff and student winners to be recognized during 2021 MLK commemoration
Every year, the University of Chicago honors members of the UChicago community who demonstrate leadership and a sustained commitment to justice and equality. In addition to faculty, alumni and staff, this year’s Diversity Leadership Awards also recognize the contributions of UChicago students.
This year’s recipients are Prof. Anita Blanchard, MD’90; Rami Nashashibi, AM’98, PhD’11; Jessica Jaggers of Chicago Booth; and UChicago students Nova Smith and Demetrius Johnson Jr. They will be honored Jan. 12 during a virtual celebration of UChicago’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration.
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Blinding reviewers to applicant photos, discarding standardized testing, and other strategies to improve equity increased the proportion of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in a cardiology fellowship program, researchers reported.
The multipronged intervention boosted the proportion of the entire fellowship who were women from the previous 5-year mean of 27.0% to 54.2% after 3 years of the changes (2017-2019), reported Jennifer A. Rymer, MD, MBA, of Duke Clinical Research Institute in Durham, North Carolina, and colleagues in
By the same comparison Black, Hispanic, Latinx, and Native American matriculants in the program rose from 5.6% to 33.3%. Importantly, we did not alter (ie, lower) our standard requirements for recruiting applicants, Rymer s group noted. Aside from eliminating US Medical Licensing Examination score criteria, we continued to select applicants to interview who met previously published criteria. Furthermore, we did not
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Published on: 12-30-2020
Loma Linda University Health representatives were on hand at Malamulo Adventist Hospital in the southeastern African nation of Malawi earlier in December 2020 to celebrate the facility’s first surgery residency program graduates.
Two graduates, Lijalem Taye Garba of Ethiopia and Constance Ndum of Cameroon, were honored during the ceremony, which marked the latest step for Loma Linda University Health and its parent, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, to develop advanced health care in the region.
Loma Linda University Health president Richard H. Hart said a painful reality exists in many African countries: there are only a handful of surgeons in many countries to meet the 56 million people across the continent who need surgical care each year.