February 11, 2026
(Minnesota Star Tribune) – The school is changing an elective course while still working with the Eden Prairie-based health care giant after students raised concerns. The University of Minnesota is revising a Medical School class financially supported by UnitedHealth Group … Read More
January 26, 2026
(SF Gate) – Nearly six years later, a generation of first-year college students is still feeling the fallout, shaped by years of online high school, isolation and disrupted learning during some of their most formative years. Even as college life … Read More
December 30, 2025
(The New Yorker) – Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them? What’s more, the main principles that inform those methods have been shown to underlie … Read More
December 24, 2025
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol. 34, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 15, 2025
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 50, no. 5, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 5, 2025
(Current Affairs) – Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education. At San Francisco State University, the provost’s office formally notified … Read More
October 13, 2025
(WSJ) – Health systems are joining with local high schools to create employee pipelines; ‘You can’t sit and wait to see who shows up’ Human resources advisory firm Mercer projects a deficit of 100,000 healthcare workers by 2028, mostly among … Read More
October 6, 2025
(Washington Post) – At schools across the country, educators and administrators are scrambling to set rules for how students and educators use ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools for homework and other assignments. In one Silicon Valley school district, a … Read More
September 12, 2025
(The Atlantic) – The trouble with chatbots is not just that they allow students to get away with cheating or that they remove a sense of urgency from academics. The technology has also led students to focus on external results … Read More
September 10, 2025
(UPI) – Google is celebrating the start of the 2025-26 school year with a DNA-themed Doodle on Wednesday. This Back to School Doodle looks at deoxyribonucleic acid, also known as DNA, “a molecular polymer that carries the genetic instructions for … Read More
July 31, 2025
(CBS News) – Diego Marroquin and Jason Denoncourt are students on the “Accelerated MD” track at UMass Chan Medical School — one of 33 programs that offers the option to compress four years of medical school into three for students … Read More
July 22, 2025
(TIME) – On July 14, 48 students walked through the doors of the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Bentonville, Ark. to become its inaugural class. Some came from neighboring cities, others from urban centers in Michigan and New … Read More
July 14, 2025
(New York Times) – Dr. Still began training new providers at his school in Missouri, to the outrage of many M.D.s. Those doctors regarded osteopaths as “members of a cult” and aggressively fought to shut down the profession with lawsuits … Read More
July 11, 2025
(NBC News) – Nursing students are now practicing with ‘Mama Anne,’ a realistic mannequin that simulates childbirth. NBC News’ Steven Romo explains this new medical technology, which debuted this year. (Watch Here)
July 1, 2025
(Rest of World) – Across China, tens of thousands of students like Xiaobing are navigating an academic crackdown that has ironically triggered a surge in the use of AI: Many students are turning to AI tools to outsmart the tests … Read More
June 12, 2025
(ABC News) – The Supreme Court sided with a teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy on Thursday in a unanimous ruling that could make it easier for families like hers to go to court over access to education. … Read More
June 12, 2025
(404 Media) – Last month, I wrote an article about how schools were not prepared for ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, based on thousands of pages of public records I obtained from when ChatGPT was first released. As part … Read More
June 3, 2025
(Nature) – Automated programs gathering training data for artificial-intelligence tools are overwhelming academic websites. In February, the online image repository DiscoverLife, which contains nearly three million photographs of different species, started to receive millions of hits to its website every … Read More
April 24, 2025
(Christianity Today) – The Nashville program joins a growing movement to teach future doctors a “whole person” model of health care For the first time in more than 40 years, a new Christian medical school granting MD degrees has opened … Read More
April 16, 2025
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 50, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 31, 2025
(Plough) – In Baltimore, the Paul McHugh Program for Human Flourishing gets med students talking. Studying medicine forces students in health professions to grapple directly with philosophical questions. These include questions about the nature of being human, the essence of … Read More
February 13, 2025
(Comment) – Medical students enter the anatomy lab dreaming about “the art of medicine” but graduate residency bewildered because they can’t make sense of themselves as technicians in a profession that once claimed to be a kind of art. As … Read More
January 13, 2025
(Politico) – Medical students at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston are developing artificial intelligence tools to help them learn how to provide all-options pregnancy counseling without putting themselves or their patients at risk of prosecution under the … Read More
January 10, 2025
(Plough) – Learning that one’s job might soon be eliminated by the emergence of an overhyped new technology puts one in good company. Say, for example, you’re a college English teacher, and a significant portion of the nation’s venture capitalists … Read More
October 23, 2024
(The Atlantic) – The school’s shift to a tuition-free model has no doubt been a tremendous boon to those students fortunate enough to gain admission. But judged against the standards set out by the Langones and NYU itself, the initiative … Read More
