Tue.Sep 10, 2024

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Using Ask, Listen, Learn’s Underage Drinking Prevention Curriculum in Your Classroom

SHAPE America

October is Health Literacy Month. SHAPE America defines health literacy as, “…the ability to access, understand, appraise, apply and advocate for health information and services in order to maintain or enhance one’s own health and the health of others.” As health educators, it is important to teach our students to be health literate. Health-literate students can understand how their decisions affect their health and well-being and the health and well-being of those around them.

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The Journey From Pediatric Cancer Patient to Future Physician

Stanford Childrens

Ryan stands outside of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford after receiving his white coat, which marks the launch of a MD student’s educational journey. It’s a day that Ryan Sathianathen will never forget. After an entire morning of waiting with no calls or emails, he assumed he would have to go through the entire process of applying to medical school again.

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How to develop and nurture physical literacy 

PE Scholar

What is physical literacy?