Four months into my outpatient rotation with family medicine and internal medicine, I’ve noticed a lot of patients who may decline certain screening tests (i.e. mammograms, colonoscopy), or vaccines (i.e. influenza, shingles), either providing no reason for their refusal or stating that “I don’t need it, I never get sick.” It is quite stunning to […]
Improving Your Communication Skills for Healthcare
A part of public health is helping to give a voice to those who may not always have the privilege of being heard, yet you may go through your formal education only encountering a handful of communication-based classes. I’ve learned through my time interning with the Merck Manuals social media group that the two fields, […]
Unique Ways to Utilize a Public Health Degree
Whether you get an MPH, an MSPH, an MHS, or any such degree from a graduate-level public health program, you’ll find that there are endless ways to utilize your degree. When you begin browsing graduate programs, you may be surprised by just how much variety there is within the field. My advice is to consider […]
