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The benefit of a public health degree in medical education

Joshua St. Louis
Medical Education
July 28, 2013

On a rotation in internal medicine last year during my third year of medical school, I spent several days watching the residents work to optimize a homeless patient’s insulin regimen. They were understandably concerned with his diabetes medications because he had been admitted in a diabetic coma, but the real reason for the coma, as far as I could see, had nothing to do with his medication regimen and everything …

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Can group visits be an ideal way to practice primary care?

Joshua St. Louis
Medical Education
March 16, 2013

After a long day on the internal medicine ward at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, I rushed across town to lead that evening’s two-hour group diabetes visit at Union Square Family Health Center in Somerville, MA.  So when my preceptor asked me if I’d lead the group on a field trip after the two-hour visit, it was the last thing I wanted to do.

Although we had discussed taking our Brazilian patients …

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Can group visits be an ideal way to practice primary care?

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