The Rosalind Franklin University-Benjamin Rush Institute (BRI) chapter welcomes you to find out about our organization and get involved! BRI's purpose is to fully unleash the power of medicine to maximize human health and well-being. We do this by holding events during the academic year: debates, journal club meetings, lunch lectures, movie screenings—(yes, we always serve food!) to help spread the exchange of ideas about healthcare innovation, improvements in healthcare policy, and simply networking as caring medical students.
You are cordially invited to join BRI-UAB chapter officers and faculty advisor for an informal talk about Benjamin Rush Institute's purposes and goals, to learn how we seek to grow this BRI chapter, and what we intend to accomplish this coming academic year by way of educational, fun and informative events. This meeting is especially geared towards MS1 and MS2 students looking for a like-minded group to be involved in, and all are welcome. Faculty advisor Dr. Thomas Huddle will provide remarks on the current trajectory and future of healthcare in the United States.
Pizza and refreshments will be served.
About Dr. Thomas S. Huddle:
Dr. Huddle completed undergraduate, graduate and medical school work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he completed an MD PhD (history of medicine). He then did internal medicine residency at the University of Wisconsin, Madison WI and went on to complete a general medicine fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania (Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program).
Dr. Huddle pursues conceptual research/scholarship in the history of medicine, medical ethics, medical professionalism and medical education.
Josh Blackwell, VP UAB-BRI; Thompson Foy, President UAB-BRI in background
Imagine your excitement as a parent getting ready to attend your child's graduation from medical school. Instead, you attend his funeral--yet another medical student suicide victim.And statistics show no improvement even when a medical student becomes a doctor.
"Medical student and physician suicide is an epidemic. It is estimated that 400 doctors die by suicide in the United States each year. That's the equivalent of an entire medical school gone! The second leading cause of death among medical students is suicide--a well-known occupational hazard in medicine. Yet no medical organization is tracking these suicides. Why? And how can we solve a problem when it's hidden from us?"
The more awareness we raise, the more we can speak with one voice--a voice of solidarity--to find the root causes of physician and medical student suicide, and promote solutions to turn the tide.
Fulfilling a life's passion to care for others shouldn't mean personal suffering--or worse.