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
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
