As COVID-19 and the coronavirus continue to spread throughout the country, countless fields are being turned upside down – education being one of them. After all, the global pandemic hits just as final-year medical students are preparing for residency, third-year medical students are considering options for residency applications and preclinical students are readying to work …
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Not since the Spanish Flu swept across the world a century ago, infecting 500 million people (nearly a quarter of the world’s population at the time) and killing tens of millions has a global pandemic caused such chaos in our daily lives. Among the field most affected is education and medical students in particular feel …
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The continued advancement of global communications technology is paving the way for unprecedented growth in the field of telemedicine, the remote diagnosis and treatment of patients via telecommunications. According to a recent survey by Doximity, an online networking service for medical professionals, the industry has grown by some 20 percent each year from 2015 to …
The much discussed physician shortage, predicted to surpass 120,000 by 2032 according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, paired with the upswing in the US economy throughout 2019 represent enormous opportunity for medical students. But where are is that opportunity the richest? Per a recent survey by Doximity, it’s in the family, internal and …
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If you’re a future physician with an eye on practicing in New Orleans, Cincinnati, Hartford, Atlanta or Minneapolis, your future already looks promising financially. Data collected in Doximity’s latest U.S. Physician Employment Report reveals these cities are among those not only boasting highest physician salaries in 2019, but also showing the highest compensation growth. Research …
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It’s no secret that medicine has long been a male-dominated industry. Though Elizabeth Blackwell chipped the first crack in the glass ceiling more than a century and a half ago (admitted to medical school as a joke by male faculty and fellow students who assumed she’ quickly fail and bail), the floodgates didn’t exactly swing …
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When waiting to hear whether you’ve been accepted to the medical school of your choice, it may prove dismaying to get the notice that you’ll simply have to wait a little longer for an answer. But make no mistake – landing a spot on a great school’s wait list is, itself, an accomplishment. That’s because …
A recent image of 15 black Tulane University medical students donning their white coats and posing in front of the former slave quarters of a historic Louisiana plantation went viral on social media. The accompanying words were poignant: “We are our ancestors’ wildest dreams.” Snapped by photographer Abedoyin Johnson, the image quickly racked up tens …
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The number of medical students who report having a disability rose 69 percent between 2016 and 2019, according to a new survey published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Multiple factors may be at play, including “more applicants with disabilities being admitted to medical school, more existing students disclosing disability, better …
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The vast majority of medical students who choose careers in healthcare are following in footsteps of parents or other family member who also became doctors. But first-generation students, those who are the trailblazers in their families, are increasing in number and finding success despite unique struggles and without the benefits that their continuing-generation peers enjoy. …
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