The Bottom Line Exposure to community or domestic violence has an enormous effect on a child’s health. Evidence-based interventions — like the expanded Child Tax Credit, continuous Medicaid enrollment, and hospital-based violence prevention programs, such as...
In healthcare, cultural competence and cultural humility aren’t just concepts to better patient experiences. They are used to fine-tune care delivery, and integrating these concepts into the systems and protocols of a hospital or healthcare environment can...
This is the second installment of a two-part audio series about sleep in medical residency. In the first installment, experts discussed the question: Why is quality sleep so tricky for medical residents to achieve and what are the serious ramifications of this...
Sleep is an elusive necessity for many, but especially for resident physicians who frequently work erratic schedules, as they learn to develop and hone their clinical acumen. According to a 2020 study in JAMA Network Open, lack of sleep among medical residents leads...
Back in May, when the Food and Drug Administration approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in adolescents aged 12 to 15, the vaccination strategy team at Boston Medical Center was ready to mobilize—quite literally. A multilingual and...