Trisha Kaundinya is a medical student.

Under-addressed mediators of adherence: personality in patients

Education
March 27, 2021

When novice medical students such as myself learn how to counsel patients, the primary didactic focus is on developing awareness of how factors such as racism, socioeconomic status, environmental stressors, and social supports may predispose patients to or protect patients from acquiring disease and mediate adherence. But in this discussion of patients and the decisions that they may make before, during, and after a clinic visit, we often overlook personality.

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Under-addressed mediators of adherence: personality in patients

Unpacking the timely need to address the lack of diversity in medical media

Education
January 5, 2021

Multifaceted diversity continues to be a challenge to achieve in medicine, which is concerning given the irreplaceable value that a diverse community of clinicians provides to research, patient care, and medical education. Current initiatives to expand diversity are centered around academic mentorship models, in which striving to teach more students the life sciences and frontiers of biomedicine as early as elementary or middle school can provide critical exposure and pique …

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Unpacking the timely need to address the lack of diversity in medical media