Physician Assistant students are getting a new worldview, thanks to a clinical rotation in South Africa at the University of Witwatersrand. For eight weeks starting in August 2018, two Tufts students participated in clinical rotations at both the rural Kopanong Hospital in Vereeniging, and the more urban Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg.
After hearing rhetoric that immigrants, particularly undocumented immigrants, are a burden to our health-care system, Lila Flavin, M19, decided to look at the data and find out the truth.
Marta del Carmen Illueca, who gave the class address at the public health and professional degree programs commencement, said graduates have a duty not only to society, but to their own health and integrity. “The more wholesome we are in body, mind, and spirit, the better healers of society we will become.”
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A course for young people with intellectual disabilities, designed by School of Medicine faculty and students to cut the risk of abuse, contains lessons for everyone
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A new study estimates that 80,110 of new invasive cancer cases reported in 2015, or 5.2 percent of that year’s total among U.S. adults, are associated with poor diets.
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Vaping, the practice of inhaling aerosol from electronic cigarettes, is rampant in schools. An estimated 3.6 million American middle and high school students used e-cigarettes in the past thirty days, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2018, one in five high schoolers reported vaping in the past month—up from about one in 100 in 2011—and the numbers are rising.