This month’s issue of Academic Medicine includes a series of essays addressing the question, “How should academic medicine contribute to peace-building efforts around the world?” This timely question is especially compelling in the United States, as national discourse continues about troop levels in Afghanistan, military strategy in Iraq, and whether and how the US should help stop the genocide in Darfur. Read the rest of this entry →
This is the start of another GP Blog series, inspired by a recent workshop in New York City addressing the implications of human trafficking and commercial sex exploitation in the clinical setting. It is my hope that this series can help increase awareness of the issue, and keep the conversation going. Read the rest of this entry →
Katherine Ellington shared this video with us last weekend at the 2009 AMSA Global Health Leadership Institute in Virginia. Chimamanda Adichie, author of the acclaimed novels Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, gives a TED Talk on her childhood in Nigeria and her personal discovery of how biases and assumptions are embedded in the stories we hear and read: Read the rest of this entry →