Study highlights need to protect physician residents, emergency care teams from physical or verbal abuse
A new study in
Annals of Emergency Medicine highlights the importance of protecting physician residents early-career doctors still in training and emergency care teams from incidents of physical or verbal abuse.
The survey of 123 physicians, residents, and staff in one emergency department found that 78 percent of all health care workers experienced a violent assault in the prior 12 months, including more than one in five (22 percent) emergency physician residents. Eighty-nine percent of residents experienced verbal assault by a patient in the prior 12 months, compared to 80 percent of other health care workers.
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Only after a year like 2020 would 10 point declines in test scores be a good sign, but here we are.
“I am more optimistic about this than I was coming into the pandemic,” said Thad Domina, professor at the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Public Policy.
It’s too early to fully tell what COVID-19 and remote learning have done to students’ achievement in the Alamance-Burlington School System and across the country. The Times-News will be following the local and state impacts of remote learning on student performance and the achievement gap throughout the year and wants to hear from students, teachers and parents about what they are seeing.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - First-year college students are reporting symptoms of depression and anxiety significantly more often than they were before the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The study, embargoed for release until March 3, 2021, at 2 p.m. EST, in the journal
PLOS ONE, is based on surveys of 419 Carolina students, and reflects the challenge of colleges nationwide to support student well-being.
The study is unique among the growing reports of COVID-19 s toll on mental health: researchers followed the same group of first-year college students before and after the pandemic began. Plus students were asked about a broad range of issues to reveal remote instruction as a main stressor.