April 16, 2025
A New Edition of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Is Now Available
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 50, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
Education
March 31, 2025
Humanizing Medicine
(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
Art and the Art of Medicine: Can Doctors Find True Understanding in the Arts?
(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
AI abortion training is here
(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
Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Future?
(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 Perverse Consequences of Tuition-Free Medical School
(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
October 7, 2024
A young doctor’s final words offer a mental health warning for others
(Washington Post) – Will West, a 33-year-old who was training at George Washington University hospital in D.C., wrote in a suicide note that other residents are “at real risk” There is no way to know for certain what led Will … Read More
July 10, 2024
Johns Hopkins Med School Will Be Free for Most after $1 Billion Donation
(Axios) – Starting this fall, most students at Johns Hopkins’ medical school will attend tuition-free thanks to a $1 billion donation from billionaire Mike Bloomberg. Driving the news: The generous gift is intended to address “twin challenges of declining levels … Read More
July 2, 2024
A.I. ‘Friend’ for Public School Students Falls Flat
(New York Times) – Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed. A.I. companies are heavily marketing themselves to schools, which spend tens of billions of … Read More
June 14, 2024
The Dark History of Medical Education
(WBUR) – When news broke last June that bodies donated to Harvard Medical School were stolen and sold, it instantly became a scandal. But roll the tape back a few hundred years, and grave robbing, body stealing and the ravaging of cadavers were commonplace … Read More
April 10, 2024
Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers with AI
(Wired) – Students have submitted more than 22 million papers that may have used generative AI in the past year, new data released by plagiarism detection company Turnitin shows. A year ago, Turnitin rolled out an AI writing detection tool … Read More
March 7, 2024
A New Edition of Bioethics Is Now Available
March 6, 2024
A New Edition of HEC Forum Is Now Available
March 1, 2024
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
February 26, 2024
A New York City Medical School Goes Tuition-Free Thanks to a $1 Billion Gift
(Associated Press) – A New York City medical school will be tuition-free for all students from now on thanks to a $1 billion donation from a former professor, the widow of a Wall Street investor. Ruth Gottesman announced the gift … Read More
February 8, 2024
The Dark Kenosis of Medical Education
(Public Discourse) – Despite the lip service given to the “all are welcome” ethos of medical education, the culture of the medical profession typically implies that there is actually a very narrow set of “acceptable” anthropological perspectives that a physician … Read More
December 11, 2023
U.S. Medical Schools Aren’t Teaching Future Doctors About 7.4 Million of Their Patients
(STAT News) – Though there are 7.4 million Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities, physicians are often uncomfortable treating them. In a recent survey of 714 Massachusetts physicians across various specialties, only 40% reported being very confident treating physically or … Read More
November 10, 2023
Medical Education Must Include the Field’s Nazi Past, Expert Panel Urges
(Science) – All health care students worldwide should learn the history of medicine during the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, according to a report published Wednesday by The Lancet. The journal formed a commission in 2021 to explore how the … Read More
November 8, 2023
Studying Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust Crucial to Strengthening Medical Education and Ethics, Says New Work
(Medical Xpress) – Efforts to strengthen contemporary health professionals’ education and medical ethics should be informed by a robust understanding of medicine’s role within the Nazi regime, according to a new report from the Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and … Read More
October 6, 2023
Nursing Schools Are Turning Away Thousands of Applicants During a Major Nursing Shortage. Here’s Why
October 4, 2023
Without a College Degree, Life in America Is Staggeringly Shorter
September 20, 2023
Nation’s First Degree Combining Medicine, AI Comes to San Antonio
September 8, 2023
The Shrinking Number of Primary Care Physicians Is Reaching a Tipping Point
July 14, 2023
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
June 21, 2023
