The Phoenix Biomedical Campus, which includes the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, serves as a natural extension of the learning environment. Allison Otu, executive director of corporate and community relations for UArizona Health Sciences, is quoted.

Time spent after normal working hours on EHR-related documentation issues was the second most common cause of frustrations for physicians. A recent study by the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix found that family medicine practice providers can spend upwards of 33 hours per month working on EHR tasks during after-hours, resulting in burnout.

Continuing coverage: Dr. Andrew Weil, founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona and chief science officer for Maui Grown Therapies, will give a free online presentation called "Cannabis and the Anti-inflammatory Lifestyle" on November 5.

The tele-ultrasound training program for lung point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) will enable rural emergency departments to more effectively identify and treat suspected COVID-19 patients.

Arizona has maintained relatively low case numbers since the summer, but they are now creeping to levels seen just a few weeks before its surge. And as a conflagration engulfs the Midwest and Mountain West, public health experts and elected officials in Arizona are pleading with residents to maintain mitigation measures they say played a critical role in beating back the virus and hold lessons for other states – including mask mandates that covered 85% of the population. "I'm becoming more of a firm believer that face masks are a truly effective intervention in this particular outbreak and should be considered our first line of defense," said Joe Gerald, a University of Arizona public health researcher who tracks coronavirus trends in the state.

The virus has claimed the lives of nearly 6,000 Arizonans since the start of the pandemic. That list includes Tolleson Union High School English teacher and assistant baseball coach Ash Freiderich. COVID-19 is once again surging across the Valley. “The storm is here. We are in it and it will only get worse until we act now,” said University of Arizona College of Medicine Public Health Director Dr. Shad Marvasti.

In a head-to-head comparison, researchers at the University of Arizona found that, in symptomatic people, a rapid test made by Quidel could detect more than 80% of coronavirus infections found by a slower, lab-based PCR test. But when the rapid test, called the Sofia, was used instead to randomly screen students and staff members who did not feel sick, it detected only 32% of the positive cases identified by the PCR test. Study author David Harris, a professor of immunobiology and director the biorepository at the University of Arizona, said that some of the concerns about the Sofia's accuracy could be overcome with repeat testing.

To be sure, it is painful and often lonely to abandon social rituals - all of them, not just Thanksgiving and Christmas but funerals, weddings, graduations, birthday parties and religious observances. "They all affirm our social identity," says Elizabeth Connick, chief of the infectious diseases division at the University of Arizona College of Medicine at Tucson. "I fear that some people simply can't bear to stay away. They will attend social gatherings, and some will get infected."