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Modeling COVID-19 as US restrictions lift, state by state
Jagpreet Chhatwal, PhD, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and decision scientist at MGH Institute for Technology Assessment, discusses the challenges of building an interactive COVID-19 modeling tool and its real-world impact.
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Gaining Leadership Buy-in for Organizational Change in Health Care
The 5 P’s framework—Priority, Pragmatic, Proof of Concept, Politics, and Persistence—have proven to be beneficial in gaining institutional support for change initiatives.
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Going Inside the Health Care Ecosystem
Health Care Business Imperative: Functioning at an Increasingly Complicated Intersection with the Patient at the Center of Care
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So I have this consult...Using the consult as a means of teaching and learning
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, barriers facing residents and fellow physicians in consultation training are discussed.
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Using the Arts and Humanities to Build Resilience and Well-Being and Reduce Burnout in Pediatrics Health Leaders
As physicians, nurses, and other health care workers in the United States face increasing pressure to do more with less, there has been growing interest in the benefits of incorporating artistic and humanistic values into medical training to build resilience and wellness.
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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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8 Elements of a Successful Clinical Research Career
When clinicians focus on building up their strengths in this area earlier in their career path, it can help them establish themselves for success in the field.
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The Role for Health Coaching in Primary Care
Why aren’t we offering this sort of supported behavior change in every primary care doctor’s office across the country?
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Uncertainty in Decision-Making: Critical Care, Imperfect Data
Margaret “Molly” Hayes, MD, associate director of the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program and assistant director of the medical intensive care unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), discusses handling uncertainty in critical care decision-making.
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Language Equity is Essential in Outpatient Practice
Unfortunately, in many institutions, interpreter services can no longer accommodate the volume of people with limited English proficiency—particularly for foreign languages less commonly spoken in the world.
