Many medical career hopefuls choose their professional paths because of an idealist mentality. They want to change the world. And as lofty a goal as that sounds, it’s certainly not implausible. In fact, the American Medical Association’s Change in Medical Education Consortium earlier this month honored six students who are doing just that. Winners of …
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There’s a trend developing of medical schools offering free tuition to a number of classes of new students. This time, it’s Pasadena, CA’s Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine and the NYU-Long Island School of Medicine. Kaiser Permanente announced this month it will waive tuition for all four years for the school’s first five classes of …
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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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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 …
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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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, …
For well over a century, becoming a doctor in the US required a minimum four-year medical school commitment. That standard was set in 1910 when Abraham Flexner published a highly influential report that established modern medical practices and, despite no supporting empirical evidence, advocated for four years of training – two years of classroom and …
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New guidelines recently approved by the Association of American Medical Colleges mean changes to two key aspects of the medical school admissions process: timelines and waitlist decisions. At first, applicants won’t notice a difference, outside of schools announcing new timelines. But come next April, changes will be evident. First, on April 30th of next year, …
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