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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

” 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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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

medical schools have high out-of-network annual deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums as well as significant cost sharing, which might dissuade students from accessing mental health care when they need it. With our colleagues, we found that insurance plans offered by U.S.

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Medical Schools Insurance 135

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JULY 10, 2024

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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DECEMBER 11, 2023

needs to follow suit, starting with medical schools. Now, all health care workers in the NHS must complete both an online module and a live interactive session covering communication and accommodations needed for this population. Read the rest…

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JANUARY 2, 2024

There would be the medical school and a new teaching hospital, a way to attract new health care businesses, investments, and jobs. Politicians pitched a grand vision to transform Austin.

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STAT

DECEMBER 23, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO — A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s, including putting pesticides and herbicides on the men’s skin and injecting it into their veins.

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MARCH 7, 2023

The diversity of medical school classes has barely budged in recent decades, even with the ability to consider an applicant’s race as one factor in admissions. Now, many medical school leaders fear a looming U.S.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

News & World Report’s (USNWR) flawed ranking system, followed closely by additional schools. The nation’s medical schools need to follow their lead. The USNWR ranking system is in direct opposition to medical schools’ goal of educating a well-trained, diverse, and culturally competent medical workforce.

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STAT

JANUARY 19, 2023

What are the attributes of a great medical school?

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JUNE 29, 2023

Many medical schools have turned to using race as one factor among many in admissions decisions to try to boost the numbers of students from underrepresented groups and help overcome obstacles to entry like MCAT testing that favor students from wealthier backgrounds.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 13, 2022

medical schools grew more diverse in 2022, AAMC data shows. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 12:05.

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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Isaac "Zak" Kohane, MD, PhD, the inaugural chair of Harvard Medical School's Department of Biomedical Informatics, discussed artificial intelligence during a plenary session at IDWeek 2023.

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Medical Schools 247

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 10, 2024

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

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

From my perspective as chair-elect of the board of directors for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), a position informed by my role as dean of medical education at Georgetown University School of Medicine, the consideration of race as one of many elements in the admissions process is not only appropriate but essential.

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Medical Schools 104

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JULY 31, 2024

In my third week as a medical intern, I learned a vital lesson about the realities of everyday medicine that textbooks and professors hadn’t taught me: how profoundly the financial cost of care affects patients.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

When we think of notable civil rights issues in medicine, the best-known cases might be Henrietta Lacks , whose cells were taken without consent for research, or the participants of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study who were subject to unethical experiments.

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The Physician Pharmacist

JANUARY 4, 2022

How hard can medical school really be? You may also be wondering how it compares to traditional undergraduate degrees or even other professional graduate programs like Pharmacy School. Unfortunately, there's no way to sugar coat it; medical school is hard. An age old question that perplexes many. I think not!

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The Physician Pharmacist

JANUARY 7, 2022

As a pharmacy student interested in a career in medicine, it's imperative that you have an appreciation for the medical school application cycle timeline! It's already hard balancing your pharmacy school obligations, so don't make it harder on yourself by skipping over this crucial timeline! or our Membership s page to save!

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The Physician Pharmacist

AUGUST 28, 2022

This article will focus on the Early Decision process as part of the medical school application process. This particular avenue into medical school is relatively uncommon due to its narrow qualifications, however it still warrants a brief discussion to see if early decision is right for you!

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STAT

JULY 16, 2024

Michael Bloomberg’s donation of $1 billion to Johns Hopkins University to support medical education goes beyond similar gifts to other medical schools. The Bloomberg gift provides support to students in Hopkins’ schools of nursing and public health, not just in its medical school.

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Medical Schools 145

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JANUARY 2, 2024

You’re reading the web version of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter  following the flow of money in medicine.    Sign up  to get it in your inbox every Monday. 

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APRIL 29, 2024

I’d rather use the time to do research,” one of my classmates told me during the first week of my first year of medical school. Such a comment was my introduction to the publish-or-perish environment that is increasingly pervasive amongst medical students.

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Pharmacy Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Adaptability, teamwork, and a culture of lifetime learning are required virtues in our rapidly evolving medical landscape.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Forty years of affirmative action policies were unable to compensate for the devastating impact of the 1910 Flexner Report, which led to the mass closure of medical schools that admitted Black students, and an estimated loss of 35,000 Black physicians into the field. But the truth is more complicated than that. Read the rest…

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STAT

APRIL 27, 2024

“Former HHS secretaries: Congress should adopt site-neutral payments for health care,” by Alex Azar and Kathleen G. Sebelius As a practicing oncologist, I wholeheartedly agree with the former HHS secretaries’ call to expand site-neutral payment policy. It is a commonsense reform, independent of one’s political leanings.

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Board Vitals - Pharmacist

JULY 8, 2022

As part of a commitment to supporting the doctors of the future, BoardVitals awarded its third annual Medical School Scholarship to three winners. Outside of her studies, Breanna has a public health podcast and Instagram where she posts about medical school realities and other health equity musings: @bre_mdtobe.

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Board Vitals - Pharmacist

MARCH 16, 2022

There’s no way around it, medical school is expensive and unfortunately for medical students, the costs have been increasing over the past several years. Predictably, the cost of attending out-of-state medical schools was even more expensive. BoardVitals Medical School Scholarship.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 8, 2024

In a study published in JAMA Network Open on Tuesday, Included Health and Harvard Medical School found that patients in high deductible health plans are less likely to seek virtual behavioral healt | A study by Included Health and Harvard Medical School found that when cost-sharing is reintroduced for telehealth visits for patients in high-deductible (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries have better quality of care and health outcomes than traditional fee-for-service counterparts, researchers from Harvard Medical School found.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 17, 2024

The panel that worked on the report was made up of Big Tech players like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, as well as leaders such as Harvard Medical School, the Leapfrog Group and Kaiser Permanente.

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The Physician Pharmacist

JULY 30, 2022

How ironic is it that getting invited to a Medical School Interview can be the most exciting yet terrifying experience of your professional life? All your hard work you've put into applying to medical school has finally begun to bare fruit, yet you find yourself more nervous than ever leading up to this momentous moment.

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Board Vitals - Pharmacist

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Medical school is a long and arduous journey for any student, but with the right tools by your side, you will be successful in your journey to becoming a doctor. Btu what do you need to do the best you can in school? While you will spend a large amount of time studying in medical school, it is vital that you take time to unwind.

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The Physician Pharmacist

JANUARY 1, 2022

I'm here to tell you about the differences in their medical education, particularly with regard to getting a medical school acceptance. Whether that acceptance comes from an osteopathic program or medical program is of little significance in the grand scheme of things. Medical School Boards. counterparts.

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Medical Schools 52

Pharmacy Times

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In this final episode, we spoke with Claudia Fox, MD, MPH, FAAP, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis.

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The Physician Pharmacist

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As a future physician pharmacist, you are probably wondering how your pharmacy rotation experiences compare to the medical school equivalent. This article will teach you how to survive medical school clerkship and contrast them to your pharmacy education experiences. When do medical students start clinical rotations?

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The Physician Pharmacist

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As a pharmacy student applying to medical school, we are often unaware of how competitive the application cycle really is. We've done well enough in school to get accepted into an accredited pharmacy program, but what does "well enough" even mean in the context of medicine? Let that last sentence sink in.

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Medical Schools 52

Pharmacy Times

AUGUST 22, 2022

University of Minnesota Medical School Analysis shows comparison with fluvoxamine and ivermectin in a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized study.

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