New Doctors Get Training In Old Childhood Diseases

Axios reports:

Rush University Medical Center in Chicago is adding a new twist to its curriculum for medical students and residents, using AI tools and learning modules to teach how to more quickly identify measles rashes on different skin tones. It’s another reminder that diseases once thought to have been eradicated are showing up with increased frequency in clinics and ERs, posing challenges for younger physicians and health workers who thought they were relegated to history.

“You’re taught these things in medical school, and you’re taught from a very academic perspective with the sense of measles was eradicated in 2000,” said Nicholas Cozzi, EMS medical director at Rush. The focus is particularly acute on childhood illnesses such as measles, chicken pox, invasive strep pneumoniae and pertussis, experts told Axios. Polio and diphtheria, covered by the DTap vaccine, are also a concern.

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