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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 304

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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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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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Medical Schools 253

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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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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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MARCH 3, 2025

Modeled on college basketball’s March Madness tournament, STAT Madness is meant to be fun, but it also has a serious purpose: highlighting important scientific advances emerging from labs at the nation’s universities, medical schools, and other U.S. research institutions and companies.    Read the rest…

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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 253

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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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Medical Schools 253

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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 356

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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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Medical Schools Communication 363

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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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Medical Schools 363

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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 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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Medical Schools 254

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APRIL 2, 2024

This year’s National Residency Match, the day when medical graduates learn which health system they will do their residency programs for the next step of their clinical training, may have been a bellwether for U.S. health care — and the results are worrisome.

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Medical Schools 364

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APRIL 24, 2024

Equity and inclusion To achieve true equity in medical science “requires us to divest our research from the ivory towers of elite institutions,” said 2023 honoree Jonathan Jackson , executive director of Community Access, Recruitment, and Engagement Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

The city would get a brand-new medical school and teaching hospital, and low-income people would get more health care services. Power, politics, and care for the poor in Texas Local officials in Austin, Texas promised twelve years ago that if voters approved millions of dollars in new property taxes, it would be a win-win.

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Medical Schools Hospitals 280

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JULY 3, 2023

For Nolen, a fourth-year medical student at Harvard Medical School, the news sent a chill down her spine even though she had been anticipating it. “It felt very lonely,” said Nolen, who is Black and the first in her family to get a bachelors of science degree and attend medical school.

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MAY 15, 2024

medical school to go tuition free. They make the case that medical school debt is only one of many factors that influence new doctors to choose less-popular specialties and geographic locations for their residencies. In 2018, New York University became the first U.S.

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Medical Schools 277

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A Latina student from Arizona, she graduated at the top of her high school class and has always aspired to give back to her community. But ultimately, she decided against medical school for one reason: chemistry. It’s not that she isn’t smart enough for chemistry — far from it.

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Medical Schools 327

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AUGUST 19, 2024

  The founders were a medical school dropout, an entrepreneur whose most recent success was with a custom sign-making e-commerce shop, and an exacting University of Utah scientist.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

As a former medical school dean, I know the liberal arts are not only more relevant than ever; they are critical to the future of health and health care in America. The burgeoning movement to defund (perhaps even defenestrate) the liberal arts is not only capricious and hasty, but also remarkably short-sighted. Read the rest…

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Medical Schools 353

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DECEMBER 16, 2023

medical schools aren’t teaching future doctors about 7.4 STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays to encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues. Submit a Letter to the Editor here , or find the submission form at the end of any First Opinion essay.

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Medical Schools 243

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AUGUST 31, 2023

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JUNE 30, 2023

After having a day to read through the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action , some medical school and educational leaders are more hopeful that a path exists for them to diversify future classes and the health care workforce as they scramble to understand its impact on the next admissions cycle and the class of 2024.

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Medical Schools 248

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Not enough medical school graduates are choosing primary care — instead, many are selecting lucrative specialties to offset surging student loan debt and due to perceived lower primary care career satisfaction.

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Medical Schools 318

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MAY 18, 2023

As the deans of the two public medical schools in Nevada, we are watching with pride as our recent graduates prepare to start their internships. But that pride is tempered by concern about a looming threat to the delivery of medical care in our state. Read the rest…

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MARCH 10, 2023

For graduating medical students hoping to secure a residency training position — and that’s virtually all of them — Match Day is the most anticipated day of the year. The Match is the culmination of medical school, application preparation, interviews, and recruitment events.

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MAY 18, 2023

and Canadian medical schools must complete at least one year of residency after graduation and pass Step 3 of the standardized U.S. Medical Licensing Exam to get a license to practice as a nonspecialist general practitioner, yet the number of medical school graduates  exceeds  the number of residency positions.

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Medical Schools 246

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

Researchers at Duke University and Harvard Medical School have successfully demonstrated a proof of concept in new research published Thursday in Science using a 3D printer that uses ultrasound to print biomaterials inside an organ. Imagine getting surgery without ever being cut open.

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JULY 25, 2024

That’s when thousands of new medical school graduates enter teaching hospitals across the country and provide care to patients as doctors for the first time. For Dr. Jeremy Faust, July 1 is like New Year’s Day.

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MAY 9, 2024

“Even the word for dementia does not always exist in every culture and in every language,” said Hollis Day, chief of geriatrics at Boston Medical Center and a professor at Boston University’s  medical school.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

She had spent two years before going to medical school working as a policy analyst for Rita Redberg and Sanket Dhruva, medical safety experts at the University of California, San Francisco. ” Ji said. “I think he asked me twice. Then he went on his phone to check to see if it was actually true.”

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

So she turned to Jody Dushay, an endocrinologist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. “But after everything I’ve been through, my body was just not having it,” she said.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

  The morning of the announcement, STAT sat down with Ruvkun, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and investigator at MGH, to discuss the future of microRNA and how researchers are credited with awards. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.    Read the rest…

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

That finding was part of a broader study by a group of students at Harvard Medical School who analyzed the websites of 300 adult hospitals and 46 pediatric hospitals to get a full picture of what information hospitals provide online for sexual and gender minority patients.

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