By Rahmat Na’Allah, MD, MPH - It’s hard to believe it’s been a year and a half since I wrote my last blog addressing the disproportionate plague of teenage pregnancy and its lifelong impact on families and communities. I told TC’s story as she just had her fourth baby at [...]
By Melanie Andrews, MD - I sat down to write this blog post, the afternoon before it was due, after three reminder emails, and no less than four failed bribery attempts to get out of it. Dr. Wynn will read this and laugh that head shaking laugh he has, [...]
By Aaron Costerisan, MD - The residency academic year has its cycles and rhythms. Recruitment of new residents is more or less an ongoing effort, but it is escalating now toward its peak during interview season, which typically starts in October. I say “typically” with pre-pandemic recruitment seasons in mind. [...]
By Elizabeth Gabel, MD - We were all students at some point. A career in medicine is to never stop learning, and we continue to be students long after our graduation date. But as physicians, we are also teachers. We teach our patients about their diabetes; we teach our [...]
By Jeffrey Leman, MD - Gratitude: an emotion that we have all experienced, but what is it? The word Gratitude is from the Latin Gratia (meaning grace, graciousness, or gratefulness); that is a good starting point. Definitions in the literature that are helpful include: “a thankful appreciation for what an [...]
By Craig Griebel, MD - We recently held our Family Medicine Interest Group procedures workshop. Students (M-1s, M-2s and M-3s) rotate through several workstations to learn skills of procedures performed by family physicians. It was fun to host the students at the workshop. The energy of the students is [...]
By Dominique Fons, MD - Ever since I started my teaching career, I have always felt that part of my role as an educator was to be a buoy in the rough and sometimes stormy sea of teaching middle schoolers. Now since becoming a physician educator, my role as a [...]
By Kari Beth Watts, DO - Waiting Children, they’re called: the thousands of orphans around the world who have a precondition that complicates their ability to be matched to an adoptive family. Perhaps they have Down syndrome, HIV, or a cleft lip and palate. Maybe it’s cerebral palsy or fetal [...]
By James Barnett, MD - "I/We would like to begin today by recognizing and acknowledging that the U of I System carries out its mission in its namesake state, Illinois, which includes ancestral lands of the Peoria, Kaskaskia, Piankashaw, Wea, Miami, Mascoutin, Odawa, Sauk, Mesquaki, [...]
By Jolyne Kaar, MD - Dear 2021, how to cap off 2020? A year’s review with highlights? January and February were my favorite months. And January 2020, like each year before, this year and now this new decade started with a list of new goals. A course in Omaha [...]
