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Bloomberg Philanthropies commits $600M to historically Black medical schools

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The country’s four historically Black medical schools have received a total of $600 million in an investment by Bloomberg Philanthropies. | The funding will go to Meharry Medical College, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Howard University College of Medicine and Morehouse School of Medicine.

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Columbia medical school gets $400 million gift to fund long-shot basic research

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Columbia University announced Thursday that its medical school has received $400 million to fund a new institute for basic biomedical research to fuel future discoveries that could improve human health and lead to new drug discoveries. 

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The only tribal medical school in the U.S. graduates its first Native American doctors

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of doctors — that their numbers barely show up in charts and graphs depicting the diversity of the medical workforce. Thursday is graduation day for the first class of the nation’s only tribally affiliated medical school, the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation.

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Free medical school tuition unlikely to have a major impact on the U.S. health care system

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Most of Johns Hopkins University’s medical school students will have free tuition starting this fall, thanks to a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies, a longtime donor of the university, whose school of public health is named after Michael Bloomberg.

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With affirmative action off the table, medical schools plan new diversity tactics

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” That’s how Consuelo Wilkins, the senior associate dean for health equity and inclusive excellence at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, describes medical schools’ current efforts to maintain diversity in the wake of the U.S. “Lots of scrambling on the ground.” Read the rest…

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Medical schools are missing the mark on artificial intelligence

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But medical schools have barely started to teach about AI and machine learning — creating knowledge gaps that could compound the damage caused by flawed algorithms and biased decision-support systems. Ready or not, health care is undergoing a massive transformation driven by artificial intelligence.

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UMass Chan Medical School, MITRE plan to open assurance lab to test healthcare AI

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UMass Chan Medical School and MITRE announced plans to open an assurance lab to test healthcare artificial intelligence technologies. |