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Dec 10, 2020

Jonny, on the Spot:
The New Face of Space Medicine

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Student Focus

Mar 24, 2022

Med School, Later On: The Marie Elwood Story

Student Focus

Oct 15, 2020

Diary of a Med Student: Q&A With Author Ajay Sharma

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Dr. Danelle Guillory – How OnlineMedEd Can Be a Gamechanger in DEI

Welcome to the OME Gamechanger Series. The overarching goal of this series is to highlight an important aspect of medical education and how OME plans to make a difference. Each month, an academic expert and member of the OME team will share how OME is connected to the bigger picture through their eyes. For this first installment, we’ll focus on the experts themselves and what inspires them about OME. At …

By Danelle Guillory January 13, 2023

Detroit’s Cedric Mutebi Receives OnlineMedEd’s Future Black Physicians Scholarship

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Racial Injustice in Medicine

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An oil painting of Sims showed Dr. J. Marion Sims holding his history-making speculum in a makeshift Alabama surgery. He is flanked by two assistants and “three worried slave women who would serve as his initial subjects

Racial Injustice

History, Race, Time, and the Father of Gynecology

By Ben Stanley Jul 7, 2021

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Racial Injustice

‘Many Years To Overcome’: A Brief History of Native American Health Care Disparities

By Ben Stanley Aug 7, 2020

A black and white poster that reads, "Be vaccinated this new year against smallpox. Be vaccinated now."

Racial Injustice

The Needle and the Damage Done: Minority Access to Vaccines in America

By Ben Stanley Jul 25, 2020

A black and white photograph of a silhouette of a man in a library

Racial Injustice

A Malignant Rotation: The Presence of Racism at Medical School

By Ben Stanley Jul 14, 2020

Racial Injustice

Under Barnum’s Knife: The Shocking Public Autopsy of Joice Heth

By Ben Stanley Jul 2, 2020

Kidney donor cards in a box with a sign that reads, "your kidneys could help others to live"

Racial Injustice

Starting With Kidneys, Racial Disparities in Organ Donation Persist

By Ben Stanley Jul 1, 2020

Two gas tanks in the middle of a deserted landscape

Mental Health Student Focus

Nothing in the Tank: Burnout at Med School

In race car driving, running or any other sport where sustained energy is required, a simple philosophy underpins any, and all, strategy. If you go too hard, for too long, you’ll run out of gas. No matter how well-disciplined or well-prepared you thought you were, the same equation can ring true for any medical student.

By Ben Stanley October 8, 2020