Nicolás (Nico) Francone
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@nfrancone
Medical Student-M4 @nufeinbergmed | 🇦🇷 he/him/él | Health Equity, Latinx Health Research |Aspiring OB/GYN | Tweets are mine
How can medical schools reach their goals of representing their surrounding communities? Applying a local health equity approach, we compared student race/ethnicity with that of schools’ local county and primary teaching hospital patient populations. bit.ly/3z5v8U7
So excited our advance copies of 1st book of #MedicalSpanish clinical cases just arrived in the mail! A pleasure working with Dr. Marco Alemán as co-editors of this volume & grateful for the collaboration of many bilingual case authors & audio actors! #MedTwitter #multilingual
Pink badges & pink handcuffs, all meant to grab your attention as we raise awareness and pray for a cure to end Breast Cancer! Because of Covid, many women have put off mammograms and other cancer screenings.
The #AACR21 poster session is now live! From Alliance program partner @HealthEquityNU: 🔎Identifying barriers to care coordination for #LGBTQIA+ #CancerSurvivors ow.ly/wzN650EdjA3 🔎#COVID-19 impact on a novel cancer care delivery model at FQHC ow.ly/4Qcf50EdjA4
How has #CancerCareCoordination changed during #COVID19? For one FQHC, changes were swift and dramatic. Analysis from @HealthEquityNU shows preexisting models have been disrupted. More research will help inform new #telehealth strategy: ow.ly/R6rX50E8zpC #AACR21
New national survey published in @JournalGIM shows that despite 78% of U.S. medical schools reporting #MedicalSpanish programming, only 21% meet minimum basic standards. Read it at rdcu.be/chIQp Time for action in #MedEd to reduce structural language barriers!
