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Increasing Patient Education On Proper Antibiotic Stewardship, Arif S. Ahsan
Increasing Patient Education On Proper Antibiotic Stewardship, Arif S. Ahsan
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health issue in the United States. Coinciding with this, patients often inappropriately self-treat infections using antibiotics. Locally, this causes complications in treating patients in an outpatient setting, and nationally, this causes an increased economic burden on the United States healthcare system. A handout was developed for distribution at pharmacies in order to better educate patients on proper antibiotic stewardship, based on information that providers believed to be most important for patients to know.
Improving Healthcare For Coptic Egyptian Migrants, Lorena Ayoub
Improving Healthcare For Coptic Egyptian Migrants, Lorena Ayoub
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
There is very little known about Coptic Egyptian migrant health in the current literature. Exploring health beliefs and behaviors in regard to seeking medical care is important. Additionally, understanding how the Coptic church plays a role in healthcare is essential as many Coptic individuals believe spirituality influences physical health.