health education
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Education
Addressing Healthcare Shortages in Georgia Begins with Education
Georgia is facing the effects of a nationwide trend of physician shortages, with rural areas being hit harder than metro regions. The University of Georgia and its students are investing in programs like Mini Medical School and the Lake Country Rural Health Initiative that are aiming to create long-term solutions,…
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Health
Innovation in Health Education: Designing Medical School of Tomorrow
How can today’s medical schools truly prepare students to care for patients tomorrow? That’s the question Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld said curriculum designers at America’s medical schools need to ask more often. The structure of medical education has changed little over the last hundred years, said Ehrenfeld, a physician and professor…
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Athens-Clarke County
Athens Plasma Donation, More than Money
Newsource Reporter Tyler Linn looked into what drives people to donate plasma here in Athens. Although donors do get payed for plasma, most agree that’s not the biggest reward.
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Education
UGA Professors Receive More Than $1 Million For Research
Professors Richard Dluhy, Stephen Tompkins and Ralph Tripp have been granted one-point-one million dollars to study methods that would better predict and detect emerging influenza strains. With new technology, they will be able to differentiate between different strands of the virus in minutes. This would allow researchers to identify a…