Medicine as “A Path to Social Justice”
November 16, 2010 | Terry Sharrer
This past summer, Johns Hopkins Medical School began a first-of-its-kind residency program in urban health. Residents work toward certification in pediatrics and internal medicine but also earn a public health degree by doing rotations that include nontraditional urban settings. Clinically, asthma, hypertension, drug abuse and behavioral health are focus items, but its more than the physical symptoms the residents work to understand-they also aim to consider the social factors, like poor housing, that made illness such as asthma worse. Though this Baltimore Sun story does not mention the usefulness of telemedicine or how the elderly might be better handled in such a program, those dimensions can hardly be far behind. MORE