In this episode of HIT Like a Girl, Loren talks about solving big problems within a collaborative model. She discusses the importance of coming together as a community and supporting one another to solve complex issues. Continue reading
Author Archives: Loren Deutsch
Barriers to Entry and Success in Medical Education
Despite monumental and ongoing demographic shifts, inequality still marks post-graduate education, including medical education. Female college students have outnumbered males in the United States since the 1980s, but it wasn’t until 2019 that women represented the majority of incoming medical … Continue reading
Microaggression and Medicine
Medicine and medical education are currently undergoing a period of transition around addressing and welcoming diversity and inclusion. To that end, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has developed a Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit with a website full of … Continue reading
The emotional effects of standardized testing: Fireside at Five, Chat 1
LAS and Fireside at Five, a solution-driven group fostering world-wide conversations and community-based opportunities, held the first of four scheduled online, video chats centered around mental health and education. The first chat, Shame, Anger, and Anxiety: Uncertainty Around Standardized Testing … Continue reading