Posts Tagged ‘Job Training’
Birth Sisters: The Case for Hospital-Supported Doula Programs
It’s already clear that doulas provide an opportunity to boost birth equity, but to truly do that, the doulas themselves must be championed by healthcare systems.
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 MoreA New Toolkit Equips Nurses with Essential Skills to Treat Addiction
Only 50% of nursing schools include addiction care in their curriculum. Now, Boston Medical Center nurses are working to fill that education gap to best support patients and reduce stigma.
Read MoreNew Collab Targets Key Boston Areas for Health Equity Initiatives
Boston hospitals and organizations join forces to drive employment and housing programs in the city’s most underserved neighborhoods with a focus on sustainable solutions.
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 MoreLeadership Program for Employees of Color Benefits Health Equity
Innovation in medicine often brings to mind advanced surgical robotics or the latest breakthrough pharmaceutical drug. But innovation behind the scenes can be every bit as impactful. Such is the case for Pathways: A Leadership Acceleration Program, a recently developed initiative aimed at increasing inclusion and diversity at the leadership level across Boston Medical Center Health System. The program’s goal is simple but transformative: to help fast-track career advancement for high-potential employees of color within the institution.
Read MoreClosing the Opportunity Divide to Transform Health Trajectories
As a Year Up partner, the hospital is disrupting systemic barriers to education that force young adults into cycles of poverty and poor health, instead creating pathways to economic mobility.
Read More‘A Very Powerful Treatment’: Career Services as Healthcare
From resume building to employer networking, employment preparation emerges as a unique health service for U.S. asylum seekers in Boston.
Read MoreFighting Community Violence with Job Training
After a neighborhood shooting brought a Boston man to the emergency room, a job training program opened a door to a new career.
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