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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 254

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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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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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Medical Schools 289

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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 249

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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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Medical Schools 202

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JANUARY 19, 2023

What are the attributes of a great medical school?

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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 248

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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 252

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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 359

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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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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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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 325

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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 363

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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 356

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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 198

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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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Medical Schools 273

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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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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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Medical Schools Hospitals 272

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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 303

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AUGUST 31, 2023

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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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Medical Schools 336

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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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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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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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JANUARY 11, 2023

In 2002, toxicologist and neuropathologist Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas, who grew up east of the metropolis and attended medical school in the city, decided to look at the brains of 40 dogs that had lived either in the city’s polluted valley or in the cleaner air of Tlaxcala, a state on its eastern edge.

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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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Medical Schools 288

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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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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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Medical Schools 256

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JUNE 29, 2023

The health and wellbeing of Americans will suffer as a result,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement released almost immediately after the ruling, noting that people of color had been excluded from attending medical school and joining medical organizations for generations.

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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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Medical Schools 262

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MARCH 5, 2023

This is the first article in a series about new obesity drugs that are transforming patients’ lives, dividing medical experts, and spurring one of the biggest business battles in years. Read more about The Obesity Revolution.

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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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Medical Schools Hospitals 215

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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 202

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

I entered medical school absolutely certain of one thing: I didn’t want to be a psychiatrist like my father. Or, maybe I could ask the surgeon who belittled me as a medical student and asked, “Are you going to go into the same field as your daddy?

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Medical Schools 251

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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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JULY 26, 2023

He found that white doctors were more than four times as likely as their Asian American colleagues to be promoted to medical school department chair positions in a wide array of medical specialties, and that Black and brown doctors were more than twice as likely as Asians to be promoted. Read the rest…

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