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Education as a Catalyst for Health Care Transformation
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, current challenges facing the health care system are discussed.
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Tracing the Arc of Precision Therapies for Kidney Disease
Physician-scientist Anna Greka, MD, PhD, associate professor at Harvard Medical School, founding director of Kidney NExT at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and director of the Broad Institute Kidney Disease Initiative, discusses groundbreaking work on a rare kidney disease, prospects for new therapeutics and collaborating on drug development.
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Exploring the Emotional Side of Illness through Writing
In the intensive care unit, food is an important symbol for the medical staff, providing a way for them to deal with their sadness and anxiety. Food is also a way to offer comfort to grieving families. Daniela Lamas, a pulmonary and critical care doctor at the Brigham & Women's Hospital, thinks a lot about such telling details that she encounters on the job.
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Interprofessional Education: Who is buzzing at your planning table?
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, Cecile M. Foshee discusses the challenges and insights gained from designing and implementing an interprofessional education program.
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Resources to Ease MCQ Test Writing Anxiety
MedEdPearls October 2019: Linda M. Love, EdD discusses the five basic steps of item writing for multiple-choice exams.
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Better Health Care Through AI? Ambitious but Achievable
Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, discusses promising uses and the path forward for artificial intelligence (AI) in health care.
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Removing the Sage from the Stage: Blending Case- and Problem- Based Learning in Graduate Biomedical Research Education
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, the use of case and problem-based learning in graduate biomedical research training is discussed.
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“Good job, read more:” Making positive feedback truly positive
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, Jessica Trier discusses the evolving approach to feedback in medical education.
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Taking Aim at Provider Consolidation
Leemore S. Dafny, PhD, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, discusses provider consolidation, the CVS-Aetna merger, and the potential impact of Big Tech on health care consolidation.
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Jumping down the rabbit hole: Questions to chase in medical education
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, Lara Varpio discusses the need for both how and why questions in health professions education (HPE) research.