Studies show special mental health risks for certain groups of new doctors
First-year surgery residents, and first-year medical residents in all fields who are members of sexual minorities such as LGBTQ+, are more likely than others to develop depression during the stressful training period.
Department News
Department of Anesthesiology launches initiative to minimize the field’s impact on climate change
The initiative aims to reduce the Department of Anesthesiology's greenhouse gas emissions from anesthetic gases by 80%.
Dose of Reality
The LEAGUES Fellowship: Inclusion in Surgery
What is The LEAGUES Fellowship?
Health Lab
Study helps explain how xanthan gum, a common food additive, is processed in the gut
Understanding how xanthan gum, a common food additive, is processed in the gut hints at the ability of food additives to actively alter the gut microbiome.
Health Lab
A medical student seeks reform in the residency application process
Three physicians join a fourth-year medical student to examine the inefficiencies within the lead-up to Match Day.
Points of Blue
Andrew Bolze: Creating inclusion
M1 Andrew Bolze is originally from Hingham, MA and graduated from Harvard University in 2019.
Dose of Reality
Making an Impact at the University of Michigan’s Student Run Free Clinic
My first volunteer shift at the University of Michigan Student Run Free Clinic (UMSRFC) took place at the beginning of September. At that point I had only been in medical school for a couple months an...
Health Lab
Speaking it into being: Violet Surg
One physician's journey from Ghana to the states, and how her passion paved the way for her to become a surgeon.
Health Lab
How to prevent hearing damage
An audiologist’s advice on how best to avoid preventable hearing loss.
Minding Memory
The Study Most Often Cited in the First Sentence of Dementia Research Papers
If you’re new to dementia research, you’ll soon come to find that most research papers on dementia start off something like this: “In the United States there are 5.8 million individuals living with dementia and this is expected to increase to 13 million by 2015. . . .” In this episode we discuss the study on dementia prevalence that has been cited thousands of times with one of the authors. Dr. Jennifer Weuve from Boston University joins us today. We also talk more broadly about what makes a research paper highly citable in general.
Dose of Reality
Why I Love Space Medicine and How You Can Get Involved, Too
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Points of Blue
Gifty Kwakye, MD, MPH: Personifying hope
Gifty Kwakye is an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery and has been involved with medical education in many ways since coming to Michigan Medicine.
Health Lab
3 medical students increase access to mental health services for their peers
A new initiative provides medical students with confidential psychological care and psychiatric services at no charge.
Health Lab
Overcoming alcohol-related liver disease
Alcohol-related liver disease is becoming more common in younger people, as 38-year-old Sara Nabors learned first-hand. Through innovative care from Michigan Medicine experts, she has taken her life back.
Dose of Reality
An ASL Elective: Promoting Deaf Health at the University of Michigan
As I walked down the hallway of the University of Michigan hospital, a simple sign caught my eye. Taped to a patient's door, the sign declared, "Patient uses American Sign Language (ASL)" in bold blac...
