Our 10 Favorite HealthCity Stories of the Last 5 Years
In honor of HealthCity’s five-year anniversary, we’re sharing our favorite reads, including intimate portraits from the front lines to innovative programs and more.
Read MoreThe Top 5 HealthCity Stories of 2022: A Story of Equity and Innovation in Healthcare
This year’s most popular stories include an audio series on medical residents’ sleep health, LGBTQ clinician privacy, medical emergencies in the air, and more.
Read MoreHow Medical Residents Can Improve Their Sleep: AUDIO
In the final part of our audio series, BMC sleep experts and residents dive into the science of sleep and how shift workers can achieve quality sleep.
Read MoreIs Healthy Sleep for Medical Residents Possible?: AUDIO
Through residents’ sleep diaries and expert interviews, this audio series unpacks the gravity of sleep health.
Read MoreHow Can Leaders in Academic Medicine Make Career Advancement More Equitable?
To address gender and racial disparities in the higher ranks, an advisory group from Boston University Medical Group created a toolkit to make promotion inclusive and fair.
Read MoreWomen Surgeons Lack Support Despite Better Patient Outcomes
Two women surgeons at different stages of their careers reflect on a survey that shows major gender disparities in surgical job experience across the country.
Read MoreImplicit Bias Training in Pediatric Residency Needs Guidance
A survey of pediatric residency program directors across the country reveals that effective implicit bias training is lacking, but educators don’t have the guidance needed for improvements.
Read MoreValue-Based Payments Incentives Are not Improving Care Outcomes
“The programs are not leading to any meaningful improvements in patient safety and are contributing to inequity in our healthcare system,” researchers say.
Read MoreThe Physician’s Role in Racial Equity
Physicians are in a unique position of status. It’s our duty to be critical of all aspects that impact patients and colleagues — and then to act.
Read MoreHere to Help: Resident Redeployment to the Front Lines
A fourth-year resident from an unlikely specialty steps into the front lines to buoy a health system under siege.
Read MoreDo I Sound Like a Girl?
The definition of what it means to be professional and a leader in medicine is still rooted in classically masculine traits. That needs to change.
Read MoreCreating a Home for Public Health and Advocacy In Surgery
A grassroots organization of surgeons and medical students is shining a light on social determinants of health in surgery.
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