… of the people on the reservation live on dirt roads,” explained Stephanie Sun, a rural health leadership fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital who mentors MGH … students on clinical rotations on the reservation. The flooding, one event in a pattern of increasingly extreme weather events that climate scientists attribute to … mud, stranding people in washed-out roadways. “One patient had to walk more than a mile on a fractured foot after his car got stuck in the mud.” Sun was one of more …

… Sanders IMPACT Practice Center to have her hearing tested. And Fischer, a first-year student in the new doctoral program, was there helping examine … into the next room of the testing suite and watched Jadalla’s responses through a wall window. In front of them was the assessment equipment allowing the clinicians … hearing was.  “Will you do masked bone after this?” asked Fischer, referring to a testing procedure meant to isolate one ear to ensure the most accurate result. “I …

… becomes patient during recent Caldwell Lecture Healthcare professionals know a lot about caring for patients, but what happens when the patient is a healthcare professional? That was the question considered during the recent Ann W. … effort to make that space feel comfortable, to let them know, ‘What I say in this visit is confidential and you are my provider and I’m able to let myself open up.’ As …

… Education The MGH Institute’s  Center for Climate Change and Health Equity is a nurse-led initiative focused on exposing and educating all health professionals on … practice, adaption, and resiliency. The Center’s work was recently recognized with a Friends of the Earth award from Salem State University. To recognize that today is … initiatives.  How did the Climate Center begin? Patrice Nicholas and I had written a global health text that was published in 2015. We were finishing up the book when I …

… of Science in Speech-Language Pathology in 2007, little did she know how important a role her MGH Institute education would play in her family’s life. It all began several years ago when she noticed her son, Amit, was not developing as a typical 18-month-old should. “He wouldn’t just go through the middle of the room to get a toy. He’d crawl over furniture, go under the couch,” she recalls. “He’d find the …

… learn in the same way.  Sometimes these differences are as simple to define as a visually impaired student needing audio textbooks.  More often than not, however, … assignments and class sessions but also within each of those.  Students would have a chance to choose the way they engage with the information they receive and also choose the way they demonstrate what they’ve learned. Thankfully there is a framework called Universal Design for Learning that can help us approach inclusive …

… Shining a Spotlight on Invisible Labor … Shining a Spotlight on Invisible Labor Topics Health Equity Dr. Eleonor Pusey-Reid remembers … nursing program when she joined the Institute in January 2008. Almost immediately, a steady stream of Black, Latinx, and underrepresented students began arriving at her … looked like them, someone who could understand what it was like to be one of just a handful of people of color at the school.  “My colleagues used to say, ‘You need to …