Posted on July 25th, 2024 by Academic Programs
This week’s edition of the Prioritizing Equity series explores the Anchor Strategy a place-based approach to building community health and wealth by means of local hiring, investing, purchasing, and community engagement via the West Side United case study and model.
Posted on July 25th, 2024 by Academic Programs
This week’s edition of the Prioritizing Equity series explores the unique health care and social needs of patients experiencing houselessness. In addition, experts discuss the importance of equitable, holistic, cost effective, evidence-based discharge planning, and inform physicians of their critical…
Posted on July 25th, 2024 by Academic Programs
In this week’s edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, medical student organizers and policy advocates will join us to discuss increasing access to care in native communities through health policy and improving care within the Indian Health Services.
Posted on July 25th, 2024 by Academic Programs
This week’s edition of the Prioritizing Equity series, we explore the work physicians are leading in health systems and beyond for public health, public safety, and gun violence prevention and the narratives and actions that need to evolve to ensure…
Posted on July 25th, 2024 by Academic Programs
AMA has an interest in educating physicians about the unique health care and social needs of patients experiencing homelessness, the importance of holistic, cost-effective, evidence-based discharge planning, and the physicians’ roles therein, in addressing these needs.
Posted on July 25th, 2024 by Academic Programs
In this week’s edition of the Prioritizing Equity series, we explore the Anchor Strategy a place-based approach to building community health and wealth by means of local hiring, investing, purchasing, and community engagement via the West Side United case study…
Posted on July 25th, 2024 by Academic Programs
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about how critical medicine supply chains are identified and secured. The featured guest is Dr Amy Cadwallader, the director of regulatory…
Posted on July 25th, 2024 by Academic Programs
This commentary on a case considers consequences of a so-called “zero-risk” paradigm now common in psychiatric inpatient decision-making. Iatrogenic harms of this approach must be balanced against promoting patients’ safety and well-being. This article suggests how to collaboratively assess risk…
Posted on July 25th, 2024 by Academic Programs
Since the Joint Commission shifted its focus to suicide mitigation strategy implementation in behavioral health units in 2007, examining modern design trends in historical context is more clinically and ethically important than ever. This article considers architectural evolutions in how…
Posted on July 25th, 2024 by Academic Programs
Patients often report experiencing boredom during inpatient psychiatry stays. Because patients’ vulnerabilities and conditions can be exacerbated when they feel bored, this article considers ethical dimensions of inpatient units’ designs that limit patients’ autonomy or access to activities or interactions…