As the climate changes, vector-borne diseases like dengue, Zika, and Lyme are expanding into more areas. That challenges physicians to recognize the symptoms.
As fewer medical faculty are awarded tenure, some suggest there must be new ways to protect those in academia from institutional and political retribution.
Increasing manmade and natural disasters require new thinking about the role of health care staff, effective triaging, community partnerships, and security.
Hospital-based violence intervention programs steer victims to safer, productive lives. Research shows challenges to reducing assaults on a broad scale.
Jacob Mchangama joins “Beyond the White Coat” to discuss what we can learn from the history of free speech and what the future may hold for it in the U.S.
Throughout their careers, these academic medicine faculty have had a significant impact on medical education, patient care, and the biomedical sciences.
Smoke enemas. Bloody beverages. Milk-based blood transfusions. We explore deeply odd, and fortunately abandoned, treatments from the pages of medical history.
On this episode of “Beyond the White Coat,” Ted Shaw and AAMC Chief Legal Officer Frank Trinity talk about the Supreme Court’s ban on race-conscious admissions.
As a med tech in the Air Force, Tony Phan was inspired by doctors who demonstrated the human side of medicine. Now, he’s on his journey to become a physician.
Physician and author Abraham Verghese sees a reduction in human connection in medical care, and urges doctors to “find their passion in each patient encounter.”
