The Jewish Doctors of Medieval Italy The Italian city of Ferrara welcomed Jewish doctors — and founded one of Italy’s most enduring Jewish communities

I wanted to mark Passover by returning to one of my favorite stories in Jewish and medical history--how Ferrara opened its gates to persecuted Jewish families in a search for doctors and wound up establishing one of Italy's longest-surviving Jewish communities #Medsky

Orienting New Medical Students An approach to welcoming medical students to their first day of a new clinical rotation

I started a document back in medical school that I called "Things Medical Students are Worried About." Years later, I used to to design the way I orient anxious medical students on day one of a new clinical rotation, which I wrote about here:
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Towards a Better Case Conference Residency conferences are struggling with low attendance and poor retention as an evidence-based profession teaches with evidence-defiant methods

I'm working on a new online resource that compiles strategies for teaching medical students and residents on the wards. Today, I got back on a longstanding soapbox of mine--why case conference doesn't work and how to get residents back in the room: simonliebling.substack.com/p/towards-a-...