At the end of his third year at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Ruben Troncoso — like all medical residents — was able to choose both where and what specialty he would study and practice for four weeks. He elected to focus on emergency medical services and hyperbaric medicine at King Edward VII Memorial […]
Medical Education
The Rising Burden of Reduced Mobility
Posted by | Collaboration, Medical Education, Middle EastFor the past five years, Johns Hopkins has worked with Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare (JHAH) to co-host a multidisciplinary conference, through which 2,000 participants have learned about the latest research and clinical innovations regarding conditions such as stroke, heart and vascular care, primary care and lifestyle medicine. Most recently, we took on the topic of […]
What Health Care Can Learn From Disney and Expedia
Posted by | Collaboration, Latin America, Medical Education, Middle East, Patient Care, Patient SafetyJohns Hopkins Medicine International (JHI) experts work with affiliates around the world on concrete, quantifiable efforts like creating comprehensive clinical programs, designing medical education programs, implementing quality and safety programs, and improving operational efficiencies. However, our consulting work with our international collaborators also emphasizes the “soft” skills necessary for providing patient- and family-centered care. Patients’ […]
Joint Faculty from Our Joint Venture
Posted by | Academic Medicine, Collaboration, Health Care Leadership Development, Medical Education, Middle East, ResearchA faculty appointment at Johns Hopkins signifies the highest standards of our academic institution — standards that we embrace not only as part of our job description, but as part of who we are as teachers, investigators and physicians. Our physicians and researchers have earned some of the most respected awards and honors in medicine […]
The Universal Language of Lab
Posted by | Medical EducationBy Joelle Dorskind On the floor where I work in the preclinical teaching building at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, there are postdoctoral fellows from China, Israel and Portugal; graduate students from Canada, Germany and Taiwan; and technicians, faculty and others from all over the world. You can always find someone on the […]
‘Because of You, the Future of Neurology in Zambia Is Brighter’
Posted by | Care Providers, Medical EducationBy Dr. Deanna Saylor Zambia has the world’s sixth-highest prevalence of HIV. And HIV/AIDS — often associated with neurological effects — continues to be the No. 1 cause of death in this southern African nation. Many of Zambia’s other top causes of death — malaria (No. 2), stroke (No. 5), meningitis (No. 7) and syphilis […]
A Welcome Party on World Patient Safety Day
Posted by | Academic Medicine, Collaboration, Latin America, Medical Education, Patient Care, Patient SafetyThis post’s publish date, Sept. 17, aligns with International Patient Safety Day, a global campaign to rally stakeholders across health care systems to work together to improve patient safety. I think it bodes well that this is also the day Johns Hopkins Medicine International welcomes Hospital Sírio-Libanês (HSL) into our global collaborative health family. Located […]
Filling the Practitioner Pipeline in China
Posted by | Academic Medicine, Asia Pacific, Collaboration, Medical EducationSince 2016, Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHI) has been working with Taikang Insurance Company, China’s largest non-state-owned insurance financial group. If that seems like an unusual partner for Johns Hopkins, Taikang has a dedicated arm that focuses on health care investments and businesses, including health and wellness products and services, continuing care retirement communities, hospitals […]
Who’s the Person in Personalized Medicine?
Posted by | Academic Medicine, Care Providers, Health Innovation, Medical Education, Patient Care, Precision MedicineIn health care, we tend to value the new and the next, occasionally with a snub of the tried and the true. I’m thinking about how clinicians today build relationships with their patients. Research findings differ, but on average, patients spend 10 or 15 minutes with their doctor during each visit. Because of changes in […]
Burnout: a Crisis Among Physicians in Training
Posted by | Care Providers, Health System Sustainability, Medical Education, ResearchRecently, the American Medical Association (AMA) invested $15 million in eight ambitious programs to address the workplace needs of our current health system. Among the goals of this grant was to address the crisis of burnout among training physicians by investing in wellness innovations. In many ways, it is an issue as important and consequential […]