Medical School Dismissal

BACKGROUND: Incivility is rude, dismissive or aggressive behaviour in the workplace. Rates of incivility are increasing in healthcare settings, with minority groups at greatest risk. Medical students are particularly vulnerable to incivility whilst on clinical placements, with detrimental consequences on students' learning and mental health. Therefore, this study explored the perceptions and experiences of incivility from healthcare workers amongst medical students. METHODS: An online qualitative questionnaire study employing a thematic analysis...

Incivility in the workplace, school and political system in the United States has permeated mass and social media in recent years and has also been recognized as a detrimental factor in medical education. In this scoping review, we use the term incivility to encompass a spectrum of behaviors that occur across the continuum of medical education, and which include verbal abuse including rude or dismissive conduct, sexual and racial harassment and discrimination, and sexual and physical assault. We identified research on incivility involving medical students, residents and fellows, and faculty in North America to describe multiple aspects of incivility in medical education settings published since 2000...

School-based telehealth programs have shown potential to address both educational and health needs of elementary students in North Carolina. A Cone Health prototype in areas of endemic poverty and low health literacy allowed for the creation of on-demand care that kept children in school, decreased early dismissals, and reduced the burden and cost of urgent health care on families.

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the biographical, professional, and health-educational works of Dr. Isak Samakovlija, who was better known as a writer than a doctor in the country where he was born. He was born in 1889 in Goražde, the easternmost province in the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy, into a modest Jewish merchant family. He attended high school in Sarajevo and completed his studies in medicine in Vienna in 1917. During the First World War, he served twice in the Austro- Hungarian army...

OBJECTIVE: Our New York City Municipal Public Health System-based multisite ambulatory and school-based Gotham Health clinics offer waived point-of-care tests and provider-performed microscopy to the local communities. Our Gotham Health laboratory service conducts system-wide centralized implementation, monitoring, and oversight of the POCT operations. Laboratory staffing has always been an issue for us as there is a decades-long shortage of laboratory staff, primarily licensed medical technologists and technicians, in New York, like many other states...

Elizabeth Blackwell's younger sister, Emily (1826-1910), was the third woman to graduate from a regular U.S. medical college in 1854. Unlike the experience of the two women who preceded her, the Chicago medical school that accepted Emily refused to allow her to complete her studies and graduate, forcing her to hastily find an alternative. There was no explanation at the time and the Chicago Tribune , which investigated the incident, could only speculate about the source of such a dishonorable act: "It is very evident there is duplicity and double dealing somewhere...

IMPORTANCE: Diversity in the medical workforce is critical to improve health care access and achieve equity for resource-limited communities. Despite increased efforts to recruit diverse medical trainees, there remains a large chasm between the racial and ethnic and socioeconomic composition of the patient population and that of the physician workforce. OBJECTIVE: To analyze student attrition from medical school by sociodemographic identities. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This retrospective cohort study included allopathic doctor of medicine (MD)-only US medical school matriculants in academic years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016...

INTRODUCTION: In 2019, 4.6% of US-MD students self-identified as students with disabilities (SWD); many of these students will require accommodations on the USMLE Step-1 examination. Given the high-stakes nature of Step-1 for medical school advancement and residency match, SWD denied accommodations on Step-1 face considerable consequences. To date no study has investigated the rate of accommodation denial and its impact on medical school operations. METHODS: To investigate the rate of accommodation denial and evaluate whether Step-1 accommodation denial impacts medical school operations, a 10-question survey was sent to Student Affairs Deans and disability resource professionals at all fully-accredited US-MD granting programs...

BACKGROUND: Mental health-related stigma is a serious problem that has undesirable consequences for individuals with mental disorders including physical health disparities, increasing mortality, and social dysfunction. Besides, these individuals frequently report feeling 'devalued, dismissed, and dehumanized' when encountering health professionals who are also perpetrators of stigmatizing attitudes and discriminatory behaviors. AIMS: The present study concentrates on attitudes, and behavioral responses of medical students and junior doctors toward individuals with a mental illness and explores factors associated with stigma including temperament...

Bariatric surgery is performed worldwide to address morbid obesity. The benefits of this surgery are continued weight loss and decreased obesity-related complications. The relationship between bariatric metabolic surgery and reemployment has already been evaluated in Western countries, but there are few papers reporting these relationships in Japan since the number of bariatric metabolic surgery is small. Few Japanese studies have evaluated the effects of bariatric surgery on obesity stigma, which affects obese people's chances of employment and advancement, and may result in dismissal...

OBJECTIVE: Adolescents with chronic pain often experience symptom disbelief and social rejection by others secondary to "medically unexplained" symptoms. Although chronic pain is common in adolescents, limited research has conceptualized these social experiences as pain-related stigma in this population. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe pain-related stigma among adolescents with chronic pain and their parents using focus group methodology. METHODS: Five adolescent focus groups (N = 18; Age M = 15...

The STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) potential of youth with cognitive disabilities is often dismissed through problematic perceptions of STEM ability as natural and of youth with cognitive disabilities as unable. National data on more than 15,000 adolescents from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 first suggest that, among youth with disabilities, youth with medicated attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have the highest levels of STEM achievement, and youth with learning or intellectual disabilities typically have the lowest...

CONTEXT: Medical schools seek for measures to improve their students' study progress and are responsible for a diverse student population. OBJECTIVES: The effect of a stricter academic dismissal (AD) policy in medical school on short-term and long-term study progress was investigated in a longitudinal cohort study. In addition, differential effects for subgroups were assessed by intersecting gender, ethnicity and prior education (intersectional framework). METHODS: Participants were first-year Bachelor students enrolled in 2011 to 2016 in a Dutch medical school...

OBJECTIVES: Based upon a study by Ciechanowski et al. [27], a parallel survey was performed at the medical school of the University of Jena with the goal to determine a relationship between specialty choice and attachment characteristics among medical students. METHOD: A sample of 411 medical students from different phases of the medical training (73,2% females, mean age: 22.7 yrs.) were asked about their current specialty choice and invited to describe themselves in three different attachment questionnaires...

Harry Sicher (1889-1974), longtime professor at Loyola University Chicago, went down in medical history as a pioneering figure in the area of oral anatomy. His groundbreaking textbook "Oral Anatomy" (1949) was published in numerous languages and editions, becoming the most widely read standard work in its area internationally. This was also true for various other works Sicher authored: orthodontists sought his knowledge about cranial and facial growth, oral surgeons used his pioneering work on anatomy for practicing dental block anesthesia, and his work "Bone and Bones" was read by surgeons and orthopedists...

Chronic hepatitis B and C (CHB and CHC) are a serious medical and social problem of the world community. AIM: to study the problem of stigmatization and attitudes to patients with CHB and CHC among adolescents and adults. MATERIALS AND METHODS: An anonymous survey was conducted in 120 residents of the Kirov region. Of these, 94 adults (aged 18 to 76 years; average age 39.3±11.5 years) of different specialties except medical (group 1) and 26 adolescents aged 16-17 years (average age 16...

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Medical students' wellbeing and mental health are of extreme importance. Studies from around the world have shown that the rates of burnout appear to be high. It is also well recognized that individuals with mental illnesses frequently avoid seeking help for fear of stigma, affecting their careers and being rejected or treated differently by their peers, or due to the perception that they will be deemed unfit for practice or rejected from their preferred specialty. Students who are open about their mental health conditions are often ostracized by their own peers and dismissed or even mistreated by teachers who consider mental 'toughness' to be a requirement for success in the medical arena...

This Invited Commentary amplifies the continuing critique of the U.S. News & World Report rankings of U.S. medical schools and academic medical centers. The article begins with a critical quote about the medical school rankings published in this journal nearly 20 years ago and points out that little has changed in nearly two decades. The author then reports how the flawed rankings are performed and why U.S. medical school rankings are taken seriously, addresses the varied missions of U.S. medical schools, describes what really matters for success in medical school and professional life, sets a path forward to improve methods of medical school evaluation, and speaks to the irony of dismissing the rankings while still using them for marketing and fund-raising...

Despite robust evidence that routine immunization is effective and safe, some parents refuse some or all vaccines for their children. In 2007, concern that Canadian paediatricians and family physicians might be considering dismissal of vaccine refusers from their practices prompted an ethical, legal, and public health analysis which concluded that dismissal was professionally problematic. We now reassess this important issue in the Canadian context updating ethical, legal, and public health considerations highlighting changes since 2007...