Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

For 171 soon-to-be graduates from the University at Buffalo’s Jacobs School of Medicine, today is “Match Day”—the next step in their medical journey. Students knew they had been matched with a post-graduate medical center on March 17 but didn’t learn their destination until noon.

For many in the LGBTQ community, the emergence of monkeypox is drawing parallels to another major public health crisis that was first dismissed as a “gay disease,” until heterosexuals began contracting it. Health experts say while the risk remains very low for most people, it’s unwise to dismiss monkeypox as an illness passed exclusively by homosexual contact, or exclusively by any sexual contact.

Doctors can settle where they want to live and practice. There is a national shortage of obstetricians and gynecologists and serious issues in women's health in many places. The OBGYN chair at the Jacobs School of Medicine worries new doctors in the field may avoid many states where they are desperately needed but where there are restrictions on what they can do.

Thursday, March 10 at 4 p.m., a UB medical professor and physician serving the VA Hospital in Buffalo will be one of the participants in an online symposium, “When Providers Face Bias,” hosted by the Jacobs School of Medicine and the VA Western New York Healthcare System.

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