Francis Deng
Francis Deng is a resident physician.
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Medical education

Starting this fall, second-year students will no longer have the stress of grades at our medical school, Washington University in St. Louis (WashU). In extending the pass-fail system from the first year to the second preclinical year, WashU joins the…
Starting this fall, second-year students will no longer have the stress of grades at our medical school, Washington University in St. Louis (WashU). In extending the pass-fail system from the first year to the second preclinical year, WashU joins the other 18 of the top 20 research medical schools on U.S. News and World Report that grade the entire preclinical curriculum on a pass-fail basis. (The sole holdout is Penn, …
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Pass-fail is here to stay in medical schools. And that’s a good thing.
Conditions and diseases
A silent pattern of discrimination persists today in healthcare institutions in the United States, according to a number of hepatitis B experts and advocates. A number of doctors have been recently dismissed or threatened with dismissal when they were discovered…
A silent pattern of discrimination persists today in healthcare institutions in the United States, according to a number of hepatitis B experts and advocates. A number of doctors have been recently dismissed or threatened with dismissal when they were discovered to carry the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Infected medical and dental students have had their acceptances deferred or rescinded altogether. These are nefarious instances of defensive medicine, based on an …
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Discrimination against providers and students with hepatitis B
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