A year ago, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) reported that, for the first time ever, female medical school entrants outnumbered male entrants. The report revealed that women made up 50.7 percent of the 21,338 students entering medical school in 2017, up from 49.8 percent in 2016 and just enough to finally tip the …
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Internet search engine giant Google recently announced a $115,000 donation to Charleston’s Medical University of South Carolina to fund a student-run rural health clinic. Funds will cover expenses involved with setting up the CARES Medical Clinic, which will run on weekend at a St. Stephen middle school. The project is an expansion of an existing …
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Over the past few years, Association of American Medical Colleges has projected potentially critical shortfalls of trained doctors in multiple areas and specialties, including primary care. Now, an updated report warns of increasing shortages in both primary and specialty care. In 2016, the AAMC estimated the coming shortage of primary care physicians at up to …
It’s natural for new doctor just beginning his or her medical career to wonder – and perhaps even worry a bit – about how they’ll be perceived by their long-established peers. To find out just what the “Old Guard” thinks of its up-and-coming young colleagues, MedScape, a leading online publication for those in the medical …
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Perhaps unorthodox, but certainly popular, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Psychiatry Professor Anthony Tobia, MD is at it again. We once told you about his “Psy-feld” curriculum, which involved assigning students watch episodes of NBC’s “Seinfeld” to review and diagnose mental disorders observed on the top-rated ‘90s sitcom. Now, just in time for Halloween, …
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With the impending shortage of qualified physicians, some medical specialties are at particular risk – which means they offer significant opportunity for students graduating medical school over the next decade. Among those deeply impacted specialties is geriatrics, the social and medical specialty that deals with the health and care of the elderly. Recently released data …
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For many medical career hopefuls, a top barrier is the steep financial investment in education and training. After all, the average medical school graduate’s debt hit $190,000, with some 25 percent of graduates carrying debts topping $200,000. Of course, the payoff is lucrative – eventually. Even the lowest-earning doctors, such as pediatricians and family doctors, …
Recent research by the American Osteopathic Association shows that the number of DOs (doctors of osteopathy) has more than tripled since 1990. With one in four medical students currently training to become a DO, that figure is expected to double by 2030, making osteopathic medicine is one of the fastest-growing health care professions in the …
For the past 12 years, family care physicians have topped the list of the most in-demand medical professionals in the US, according to an annual healthcare staffing survey by Merritt Hawkins, a Dallas-based physician recruiter and staffing firm. But the latest such survey shows that demand for doctors in multiple specialties is on the rise. …
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Medical knowledge and skill obviously are musts for future or up and coming physicians. But so, too, is a capacity for compassion and an ability to connect with patients who may have markedly different backgrounds than their own. It’s why medical school admissions officials often ask prospective students whether they plan or would be willing …
