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How do we integrate training in Generalism in medical education?

Better Health For All

An ageing population with multiple long-term conditions highlights the need for training tomorrow’s doctors with skills such as Generalism, leadership and an interprofessional approach to patient care. COVID-19 has further emphasised the significance of public health as a speciality and rekindled wider interest in health inequalities [1].

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Too costly to keep, but too important to lose. Solving paradox of NC rural women’s health services

NC Health News

By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press The paradox of rural womens health care in North Carolina: Small, remote hospitals cant afford to keep delivering babies and providing other critical OB/GYN services, but their communities cant afford for them to stop.

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Honoring the 2025 AMCHP Annual Award Recipients

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 AMCHP Annual Awards. This combination of skills enables her to provide holistic support, addressing not only the physical aspects of maternal health but also the emotional and mental well-being of her clients.

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Financial pressures prompt women’s services cuts at NC rural hospitals

NC Health News

If a hospital begins to see declining numbers of births, due to an aging or shrinking population in the area, per-birth costs increase dramatically. Most hospitals in the state are governmental, educational and/or nonprofit, which means their pursuit of health care is supposed to come before the balance sheet.