January 26, 2023
(The Guardian) – Only postgraduate students and those specialising in anatomy are able to get hands-on dissection experience as Kenya’s oldest medical school grapples with a shortage of cadavers. Until recently, medical students would spend at least 250 hours on … Read More
January 25, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – The medical schools at Stanford and Columbia universities, the University of Pennsylvania and Mount Sinai are withdrawing their cooperation from U.S. News & World Report rankings, pulling out less than a week after Harvard Medical School … Read More
January 24, 2023
(Nature) – Thanks to the rapid development and evolution of artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbots, students can generate seemingly insightful writing with the click of a button. Although some academics blame these tools for the death of the college essay, a poll … Read More
January 13, 2023
(STAT News) – Ready or not, health care is undergoing a massive transformation driven by artificial intelligence. But medical schools have barely started to teach about AI and machine learning — creating knowledge gaps that could compound the damage caused … Read More
December 19, 2022
(Kaiser Health News) – Mandatory medical insurance and health service fees are common at colleges as a condition of enrollment, said Stephen Beckley, a Fort Collins, Colorado, health and benefits consultant to colleges. While the health fee can help reduce students’ … Read More
November 28, 2022
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (vol. 25, no. 4, 2022) is available online by subscription only. “Pathologies and the Healing of the Soul: Medical Terms as Metaphors in Philosophy” by Fabian-Alexander Tietze “The Continuing Formation of Relational Caring Professionals” by … Read More
November 14, 2022
(Motherboard) – Z-Library was a shadow library project that offered file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts, and trade books. The sites enabled access to otherwise paywalled content including more than 11 million books and over 80 million articles.
November 10, 2022
(STAT News) – Students and postdocs lambasted a system they say exploits their long hours at the lab bench to advance the careers and renown of professors. In return, they’re left powerless, overworked, and so underpaid that eking out a … Read More
November 7, 2022
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 48, no. 10, 2022) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Organisational Failure: Rethinking Whistleblowing for Tomorrow’s Doctors” by Daniel James Taylor and Dawn Goodwin “Manufacturing safer Medics” by Edwin Jesudason “Ethics of Genomic Passports: Should … Read More
October 19, 2022
(Associated Press) – Students in obstetrics-gynecology and family medicine — two of the most popular medical residencies — face tough choices about where to advance their training in a landscape where legal access to abortion varies from state to state. … Read More
