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Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula

Bill of Health

By 2002, approximately 79 percent of U.S. In response to this, in 1977, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine became the first medical school to incorporate ethics education into its curriculum. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, medical schools increasingly began to incorporate ethics education into their curricula.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

The table arrays data the researchers analyzed from 2002 to 2016, identifying patterns of six types of medical services used by race and age group. In this post, I’ll share just a handful of insights that were particularly impactful to my work and my commitment to work toward health citizenship for all people in the U.S.

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Love and Health: The Education of Abner Mason, SameSky Health

Jane Sarashon

was in a position to help, and the miracle of antiviral drugs worked to address the death sentence that was AIDS in 2002. In his role, Abner went to Africa and saw a shocking scale of death in large communities in the hardest-hit countries in the world. Abner was part of one of the biggest humanitarian efforts in U.S.