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The Yale Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program emphasizes culture building and bonding in an effort to better themselves as healers and caregivers. Every year, Benjamin Doolittle, MD, MDiv, program director, chooses a theme for his residency program. This year, the theme was “The Eras of Medicine” and Doolittle together with his residents explored the history of the role of healer. In keeping with the program’s theme for the year, the residents collaborated with New Haven’s Ely Center of Contemporary Art, directed by Aimée Burg, to create a work of art that explored the relationship between healing and the creation of art.

Group prenatal care shows promise in reducing maternal health disparities, say Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health researchers.

McCall designs digital health tools that have the potential to reduce health inequities by facilitating connections to health and social services.

If there was a way to lower your risk of the leading causes of death, you’d want to know what it is, right? Fortunately, there is a way to do exactly that and it’s not in the form of a pill or something that’s only accessible to the extremely wealthy. According to a new study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that took into account data from more than 200,000 people, following a way of eating called the "planetary health diet" can cut the risk of early death by 33%.

Yale School of Medicine's Nate Wood, MD, MHS, instructor of medicine (general internal medicine), explains that the planetary health diet is a form of plant-based eating that prioritizes foods that are good for the planet.

The MHS-Med Ed program graduates and Medical Education Fellows were honored on Medical Education Day at Yale.

Meet Liana Pyrdol, who works as a research assistant in the Veterans Aging Cohort Study.

Researchers are calling on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be more transparent in how it incorporates recommendations from independent scientists on its advisory panels when it approves drugs or makes other key decisions.

The Department of Internal Medicine is recruiting for numerous faculty and staff employment opportunities within its 11 sections and administrative offices.