The Texas Legislature's investment in medical education includes a full commitment to GME.
The Texas Legislature's investment in medical education includes a full commitment to GME.
COVID-19 dramatically changed the way Texas' students and residents learn medicine.
Medical students win grants to promote vaccines, education across Texas.
Texas grapples with a medical staffing shortage amid a renewed COVID-19 surge.
Although medicine wasn't his initial choice, Dr. Billings' passion for his work is palpable and extends far beyond the exam room, especially when he's training future rural physicians.
The new mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 are highly effective at giving people immunity against the disease. But as with all other vaccines, that immunity is not 100% for everyone who receives them.
"We believe that standardizing those kind of processes will be easier for [those] providing care. Because one of the things we hear a lot is this lack of harmonization of processes and procedures, whether that's in care or measures or processes. That is a really important part of it."
Austin pediatrician Sandra Frasser, MD, learned early in her medical career that many of the biggest health problems patients face cannot be fixed by a trip to the doctor's office.
Barriers stand in the way of physicians playing a greater role in addressing the social determinants of health, but awareness of those factors is increasing, and progress is happening.