Mary Byrnes
Biographic Data
| ID | 8981496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Byrnes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Byrnes |
| SIGNATURE | BYRNES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘I Would Feel Failed By the Medical Community Entirely’
BACKGROUND: Gender-affirming care (GAC) improves the mental health, quality of life, and social functioning of gender-diverse patients. In spite of this, GAC in the United States (as elsewhere) has become a major focus of debate, with several federal policy changes enacted through Executive Orders and legislation creating major restrictions on transgender (trans) Americans' ability to obtain the care they need. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to understand h…
Medical students' perception of their ‘distance travelled’ in medical school applications
Medical Students’ Perception of Their “Distance Traveled” and Its Role in Medical School Applications
Purpose: The holistic review of applicants conducted by medical schools includes an assessment of their distance traveled (e.g., hardships overcome) to get to this point on their educational journey. 1 What medical students consider to be distance traveled and how they think it should be included has not been explored. This qualitative study seeks to address this gap in knowledge and centers the voices of medical students by attending to how they…
Reconsidering Successful Aging
Many scholars now critique successful aging terminology. Nonetheless, there is incomplete analysis of the political motivations behind the development of and/or effects of widespread use of these terms. This article suggests that analysis of the people who developed the terms and the settings within which they work parallels an analysis of the terms themselves and illustrates the continuing negative perception of aging. This study fleshes out a m…
Talking “Among Us ”
Against a backdrop of scant literature on commonalities and differences among diverse groups of menopausal women within the United States, and little attempt by scholars in any country to study the ways in which both privilege and oppression can shape women's ideas and experiences of menopause, in this study, 61 menopausal women of varied racial-ethnic and class locations in a Midwestern state were asked about the different meanings and experienc…
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Talking “Among Us ”
Against a backdrop of scant literature on commonalities and differences among diverse groups of menopausal women within the United States, and little attempt by scholars in any country to study the ways in which both privilege and oppression can shape women's ideas and experiences of menopause, in this study, 61 menopausal women of varied racial-ethnic and class locations in a Midwestern state were asked about the different meanings and experienc…
Reconsidering Successful Aging
Many scholars now critique successful aging terminology. Nonetheless, there is incomplete analysis of the political motivations behind the development of and/or effects of widespread use of these terms. This article suggests that analysis of the people who developed the terms and the settings within which they work parallels an analysis of the terms themselves and illustrates the continuing negative perception of aging. This study fleshes out a m…
Medical Students’ Perception of Their “Distance Traveled” and Its Role in Medical School Applications
Purpose: The holistic review of applicants conducted by medical schools includes an assessment of their distance traveled (e.g., hardships overcome) to get to this point on their educational journey. 1 What medical students consider to be distance traveled and how they think it should be included has not been explored. This qualitative study seeks to address this gap in knowledge and centers the voices of medical students by attending to how they…
Medical students' perception of their ‘distance travelled’ in medical school applications
‘I Would Feel Failed By the Medical Community Entirely’
BACKGROUND: Gender-affirming care (GAC) improves the mental health, quality of life, and social functioning of gender-diverse patients. In spite of this, GAC in the United States (as elsewhere) has become a major focus of debate, with several federal policy changes enacted through Executive Orders and legislation creating major restrictions on transgender (trans) Americans' ability to obtain the care they need. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to understand h…
Medicine (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Perception (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Diversity and Career in Medicine (2 works) · Innovations in Medical Education (2 works) · Medical education (2 works) · Medical Education and Admissions (2 works) · Medical school (2 works) · Political science (2 works)