It is with great pleasure that I announce that Katherine Gergen Barnett MD has been named the Department of Family Medicine’s new Vice Chair for Primary Care Innovation and Transformation. In her new role, Dr. Gergen Barnett will oversee Family Medicine practice transformation initiatives in the department. She will lead the department’s quality improvement efforts, bring […]
Dear Elmer, Thanks so much for sending me this notice. The audience might like to know that the documentary is freely available on the internet, so they can watch it again at home or show it to friends. All they have to do is Google the four words Out in the Rural, and it will […]
Ray arrived on the BU campus two years ago as a freshman from Texas who identified as female and lesbian. A sociology class that October changed everything. “Some theorist had talked about how everything we think about in society is a social construct,” Ray (a pseudonym) says. “We were talking about that in direct relation to gender, […]
By Ramon Cancino, MD, MSc As a medical student rotating through outpatient clinics and hospitals in Ohio in 2008, I felt underwhelmed by the initial experience. In both settings, I witnessed employees working incredibly hard with little interdepartmental communication—even when taking care of the same patients. Sure, there were inpatient “teams,” but these were made […]