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
October 7, 2024
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
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February 26, 2024
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
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