Suicide has reached epidemic proportions in the US − yet medical students still don’t receive adequate training to treat suicidal patients

Close to half of those who die by suicide saw a primary care doctor within a month of their death.

Nathaly Shoua-Desmarais, Assistant Dean for Student Success and Well-Being and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Florida International University • conversation
Feb. 1, 2024 • ~11 min

Emergency medicine residencies more likely to go unfilled at for-profit and newly accredited programs

A new study finds more emergency medicine residencies are available, but hundreds of the positions are going unfilled.

Cameron Gettel, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Yale University • conversation
Jan. 8, 2024 • ~7 min

Seeing the human in every patient − from biblical texts to 21st century relational medicine

The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on how fragmented medical care can be. Relational, or person-centered, medicine is attempting to provide solutions.

Jonathan Weinkle, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Part-Time Instructor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh • conversation
Jan. 4, 2024 • ~9 min

From grave robbing to giving your own body to science – a short history of where medical schools get cadavers

This particularly physical kind of philanthropy caught on in the mid-20th century.

Susan E. Lederer, Professor of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison • conversation
March 10, 2023 • ~8 min

What is osteopathic medicine? A D.O. explains

Almost 10% of physicians in the US are doctors of osteopathic medicine, and that proportion is rising. Their medical knowledge matches that of other doctors; the difference is the philosophy behind it.

Andrea Amalfitano, Dean of the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University • conversation
Oct. 16, 2020 • ~7 min

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