Due to numerous factors, humans today may have lost certain metabolic efficiencies that safeguarded early existence. Depending upon a hunter-gatherer’s foraging success, daily survival for homo sapiens was most often shaped by the biodiversity of available food sources, foraging behaviors that provided an abundance of daily exercise, and distinct periods of intermittent fasting. This was …
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New Federal Legislation Introduced to Speed Up J-1 Visas for Foreign Doctors to Work in Rural America
In an effort to proactively address the coming physician shortage, Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06) and Congresswoman Grace Meng (NY-06) today introduced the Grant Residency for Additional Doctors (GRAD) Act of 2021. The aim is to provide much needed assistance to America’s rural and other underserved areas by clearing obstacles from the paths of incoming foreign …
2021 NRMP Medicine Specialty Matching Program Largest in History
The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), a private, not-for-profit corporation established in 1952 to optimize the rank-ordered choices of applicants and program directors for clinical training in the US, has released its 2021 report revealing that this year’s match is the largest ever. The 2021 Match included a record-high 48,700 registrants, an eight-percent increase over …
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Medical Students Step Up to Help w First Wave of Historic COVID-19 Inoculations
As the first of the COVID-19 vaccines roll out, medical students nationwide are excitedly stepping up to help with administering injections and filling other vital needs, many calling the opportunity “an honor” and an experience they’ll never forget. The thrill comes after months of feeling helpless, as medical schools everywhere nixed clinical rotations, shadowing and …
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Tanzanian Medical Student Forms Organization to Assist Fellow Internationals
Applying to medical school is tough enough. But when you’re an international student, you’ve got double the hurdles to cross. Azan Virji discovered that as a Tanzanian applicant – even one with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in public health from Yale. Turns out fewer than 50 American institutions consider applicants from outside the U.S. …
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Five Options for Careers in Infectious Diseases
A century ago, the Spanish Flu swept across the globe, infecting 500 million people (nearly a quarter of the world’s population at the time) and killing tens of millions, including 675,000 in the US. With a total count of nearly 5.6 million confirmed cases and 353,373 deaths as of this posting, according to figures published …
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Telemedicine on the Rise
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 …
Family Medicine Tops List of Most In-Demand Specialties
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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First Graduates of Kansas Rural Medical School Head to Work
In 2011, the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Salina opened in a one-building campus in the heart of wheat country. The aim: to help produce just a few skilled and dedicated physicians needed to address the growing demand for doctors in rural areas nationwide. Eight years later, the visionary school’s first eight graduates are settling …
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Virtual Reality Surgical Training Yields Better Results than Standard Surgical Guide, Study Shows
As the modern practice of medicine is changing rapidly, so too is the study of medicine. Among the proof are results of a University of California, Los Angeles study presented at the recent Western Orthopaedic Association Annual Meeting in Monterey, CA. According to study co-author Gideon W. Blumstein, MD, MS, medical students who underwent surgical …
