by Christina Silva | Apr 3, 2024 | Blog
Source: Nevada Today About 100 University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) medical and physician assistant students listened quietly while Starla Cassani told them about the hours after her 14-month-old son, Colby, drowned in 1993. During the tragic and...
by Christina Silva | Mar 20, 2024 | Blog
Source: Whyy.org Written By Stephen Williams Image By Kimberly Paynter/WHYY Growing up in East Africa, only the “rich and powerful” could afford health care, according to the new dean at Jefferson University Medical School — but Dr. Said Ibrahim, a native of...
by Christina Silva | Sep 25, 2023 | Blog
Source: MinnPost By Ava Kian | Staff Writer Michael Schroeder-Toya is a third-year medical student at the University of Minnesota who was inspired to go to medical school because, growing up, she didn’t see people in medicine who looked like her. Not only...
by Christina Silva | Jul 26, 2023 | Blog
Source: STAT News Written By Usha Lee McFarling For 15 years, orthopedic surgeon Charles S. Day has been working to highlight the striking lack of diversity in his field, publishing studies showing orthopedics had the fewest Black, Hispanic, and female residents of...
by David Rosado | Jun 20, 2023 | Blog
Source: Tufts University School of Medicine The road to medical school requires resources — like money, parental support, and interpersonal connections — that are not available to everyone. But by building a network of medical students, doctors, and young people...