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What will the 2021-2022 MATCH look like?

By Thomas Pak, Adrianna Diviero, Donato Mignones, Erum Chowdhry  This piece is one of a series of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Medical Education pieces for 2021-2022. Learn more about the Medical Education Team and get updates here!  COVID-19 changed the MATCH. What’s next? COVID-19 drastically affected medical education and residency application for 2020-2021. Students were not allowed to...

Mental Health of Medical Students in Light of COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Ramneek Hoonjan Ramneek Hoonjan is a medical student in the Trinity School of Medicine, and served as the previous chair of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ WSL Committee This post is a series of mental health pieces from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ WSL Committee. It is no surprise that medical students have high rates of burnout, depression and suicidal...

The Labyrinth of Isolation: The Compounding Impact of the Pandemic on African American/ Black Mental Health

By: Josephine Akingbulu, BA, MPH, Jamar Stevenson, BA, Kaosoluchi Enendu, BS This post is one of a series of mental health pieces from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ WSL Committee. Approximately 42 million people in the United States of America identify as Black. That is about 13.2% of the total population which is comprised of African American, as...

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Calls on National Governors Association for Healthcare Workforce Protections – COVID-19

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Calls on National Governors Association for Healthcare Workforce Protections On August 10, 2020, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ joined Physicians for Human Rights and a number of other health and human rights organizations to call on the National Governors Association to enact and enforce state-level guidance on healthcare workforce protections during the Coronavirus pandemic.   Recommended standards are...