Pulse

Briefs

CME for missionary doctors, help for becoming culturally competent, the future of medical tourism.

 

Willing and Able to Work

Minnesota is home to an unknown number of foreign-trained physicians who want to practice medicine--if only they could get licensed.

 

Cruise Doc

One Minneapolis emergency physician has found a way to combine work and travel.

 

Mosques on a Medical Mission

The Twin Cities' Muslim community has opened two free clinics to serve the poor and uninsured.

 

End Notes

A Lesson From Haiti

Discovering humanity amidst devastation.

By Kelsey Shelton-Dodge.

 

 

Table of Contents | April 2010

Cover Story

Help for Haiti

For some Minnesota doctors, the January 12 earthquake was a call to immediate action.

By Jeanne Mettner

 

Perspective

Reflections on an Untimely Death

Could volunteers from the United States have prevented a Nicaraguan woman's demise?

By Therese Zink, M.D., M.P.H.
 

Playing on a Global Field

Like soccer, medicine unites young investigators from different parts of the world.

By Catherine Pastorius

 

Commentary

Comparing Health Care Systems: Can the United States Learn from Other Countries?

An analysis by members of the International Comparative Health Systems class at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health

By Lesley Weaver, Elizabeth Donohue, Brenda Hedtke, Jennie Anderson, Hilarie Martin, Danushka Wanduragala, Kristin Hamre, William Woywod, Kristin Eide, Spencer Rudolf, Kerry Landry, Elizabeth Karan, Samuel Lee, and Caleb Schultz, M.D., and Christine Gille (eds)

 

Clinical and Health Affairs

Using Medical Interpreters

By Dionne Hart, M.D., Juan Bowen, M.D., Ramona DeJesus, M.D., Alejandro Maldonado, and Fatima Jiwa, M.D.
 

Initial Refugee Health Assessments: New Recommendations for Minnesota

By Susan Dicker, R.N., M.S.N., M.P.H., William M. Stauffer, M.D., M.S.P.H., DTM&H, Blain Mamo, M.P.H., Cindy Nelson, M.S.N., F.N.P.-BC, and Ann O'Fallon, R.N., M.A.
 

Caring for the Karen: A Newly Arrived Refugee Group

By David V. Power, M.D., M.P.H., Emily Moody, M.H.S., Kristi Trussell, M.D., Ann O'Fallon, R.N., M.A., Sara Chute, M.P.P., Merdin Kyaw, M.B.B.S., James Letts, M.D., and Blain Mamo, M.P.H.
 

Improving Health through Community-Based Participatory Action Research: Giving Immigrants and Refugees a Voice

By Kathleen A. Culhane-Pera, M.D., M.A., Michele Allen, M.D., M.S., Shannon L. Pergament, M.P.H., M.S.W., Kathleen Call, Ph.D., Amira Adawe, Rosaura de la Torre, Mikow Hang, Fatima Jama, Maria Navas, Luis Ortega, Pachia Vue, M.P.H., and Thomas Tou Yang

 

Editor's Note

The Language of Medicine

 

MMA Viewpoint

The Trouble with Torts

 

MMA News Now

GAMC Bill Restricts Provider Payments
MMA Seeks Officer Candidates
Commissioner Opposes Peer Grouping Timeline Change

 

Tracking Reform

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