Clinical Care

By Amy K. Liebman, MPA, MA, Director of Environmental and Occupational Health, MCN and Claire Hutkins Seda, Writer and Editor, MCN

[Editor’s Note: It’s almost here! The Spring issue of Streamline, Migrant Clinicians Network’s quarterly clinical publication, is hitting mailboxes early next week. Today, we give you a sneak-peek at one of the featured articles in the newest issue. Streamline is delivered free of charge to over 4,000 clinicians around the country. Sign up to receive Streamline by emailing your mailing address to contedu@migrantclinician.org.

Here are a few articles that caught the interest of MCN’s staff this week. We hope you enjoy them.

1. Candace, Specialist in Clinical Systems & Women’s Health, shared a MedScape article on the new program coming to replace Meaningful Use. 

This week, Ed Zuroweste, MD, Chief Medical Officer is in Kosrae, Micronesia on a site visit to provide technical assistance to the new Kosrae Community Health Center, in preparation for its first operational site visit by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) later this year.  Kosrae is one of four island states of the Federated States of Micronesia, an independent sovereign nation made up of over 600 tiny Western Pacific islands.

A mid-spring weekend is just a few hours away; that means it’s time for Five on Friday, our weekly wrap-up of news we shared internally here at MCN, that we thought you may enjoy as well. What did you read that you’d like to share? Let us know on Facebook or Twitter.

The third edition of Drug-Resistant TB: A Survival Guide for Clinicians was released this week by the Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) and the Tuberculosis Control Branch of the California Department of Public Health.

As we roll into the weekend, we’d like to offer up some of the interesting news pieces that floated into our inboxes this week. What did you see this week? Let us know on Facebook and Twitter.

Last month, as part of the commemorations of World TB Day, Deliana Garcia, MA, Migrant Clinicians Network’s Director of International Projects, Research, and Development, traveled to Brasilia, Brazil to join health advocates and parliamentarians from across Central and South America in the first meeting of the Americas TB Caucus.

[Editor’s note: This week is National Public Health Week. Climate change has long been recognized as a significant and emerging global public health threat.