A5075027452- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Medical Education and Admissions
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Cultural Competency in Health Care
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Radiation Dose and Imaging
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
- Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Radiology practices and education
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Hepatitis C virus research
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Delphi Technique in Research
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
East Carolina University
2020-2023
Weatherford College
2012-2020
University of Nigeria
2020
National Medical Association
2009-2013
University of Chicago
2012
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2012
Duke University
2005-2009
Durham VA Medical Center
2005-2009
University of Miami
2005
Brown University
1998
The negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been exacerbated in Africa by hunger, poor health care, educational systems, poverty, and lack potable water sanitation. With a worrying global recession as result COVID-19, our ability to achieve 17 United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) post-pandemic era has questioned. There is concern that economic stagnation caused will not only push more populations below poverty line but also limit international support ensure progress...
To characterize national physician organizations' efforts to reduce health disparities and identify organizational characteristics associated with such efforts.
Interview with Valerie Montgomery Rice on opportunities for achieving a diverse student body and workforce after the Supreme Court’s decision affirmative action. (11:32)Download The decisions in two cases eliminate consideration of race university admissions. Regardless rulings, medical education can sustain efforts supporting diversity.
In 2015, data released by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) showed that there were more Black men applying and matriculating to medical school in 1978 than 2014. The representation medicine is a troubling workforce issue was identified National Academies Sciences, Engineering, Medicine as national crisis. While premedical pathway programs have contributed increased diversity, alone they are insufficient accelerate change. response, AAMC launched new initiative August 2020,...
***Background:** We sought to compare findings of a national survey perceptions racial/ethnic discrimination in healthcare those community survey, with emphasis on the Latinos*. ***Methods:** Responses from were compared telephone residents Durham County, North Carolina*. ***Results:** Black respondents sample more likely than feel that provider had treated them disrespect because health insurance status (28% vs 14%; P \< 0.001). Approximately one third Latinos and 14% felt they been their...
Established in 2019, the Roundtable on Black Men and Women STEM convenes a broad array of stakeholders that focus barriers opportunities encountered by men women as they navigate pathways from K-12 postsecondary education to careers science, engineering, medicine. Through meetings, public workshops, publications, advances discussions raise awareness and/or highlight promising practices for increasing representation, retention, inclusiveness STEM. In keeping with charge Roundtable, leadership...
Background and Objectives: Medical schools aim to admit talented learners who are honest, patient centered, caring, in addition possessing the required cognitive skills. The Association of American Colleges (AAMC) describes core competencies for entering medical students three categories: science, preprofessional, thinking reasoning. authors sought determine desired characteristics school applicants at a rural, community-based light published competencies. Methods: This qualitative study...
To diversify the medical workforce, programs must be developed that enhance and prepare students from minoritized underresourced communities to compete for admission education. North Carolina has a rich history of providing pathway assist in developing into physicians who will serve which they emerged.
<h3>Background</h3> In 2002, the Institute of Medicine9s report “Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare” recommended that all U.S. medical schools implement cultural competency training as one solutions to improving quality health care for ethnic minorities There are few data available describe formats, number hours, or timing such during school residency. <h3>Methods</h3> The CCTOP Study (Cultural Competency Training Outcomes Patients) is an ongoing...