May 4, 2023
(ABC News) – Residency programs in states with bans in place saw a drop in the number of OB-GYN residency applications, according to recent data from the Association of American Medical Colleges. While there was an overall decrease in the … Read More
April 27, 2023
(STAT News) – It’s a question many medical students and recent medical school graduates are asking. Today, Sorensen directs the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education and teaches courses on climate and health impacts at Columbia University’s school of … Read More
April 20, 2023
(NPR) – For decades, leading medical organizations have been trying to diversify the ranks of physicians, where Black and Hispanic doctors remain vastly underrepresented relative to their proportion of the U.S. population. That matters, because research has shown that people … Read More
April 14, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – An ounce of prevention may be worth a pound of cure, but medical schools have traditionally given little weight to instruction on how to help patients live healthier lives. The future could look different as schools … Read More
March 24, 2023
(NPR) – In February, most residents at two major Penn Medicine hospitals decided to form a union, and the National Labor Relations Board will conduct their election in early May. They join a wave of other residents unionizing at programs … Read More
March 22, 2023
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (vol. 42, no. 3-4, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “A Plea for an Experimental Philosophy of Medicine” by Andreas Block and Kristien Hens “Experimental philosophical Bioethics and normative Inference” by Brian D. … Read More
March 21, 2023
Journal of Medical Humanities (vol. 42, no. 4, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Reflective Writing about Near-Peer Blogs: A Novel Method for Introducing the Medical Humanities in Premedical Education” by Rachel Conrad Bracken, et al. “Medical … Read More
March 20, 2023
(Axios) – More medical school graduates are steering away from emergency medicine and opting for specialties like orthopedics and plastic surgery, raising concern about a field that bore the brunt of COVID-19 and remains beset by the overdose epidemic and … Read More
March 7, 2023
(STAT News) – What Davis, and its remarkably diverse class of 2026 demonstrates, is an alternative future for a post-affirmative action world, one where diversity might be achieved despite the many obstacles that stand in the way. The student body … Read More
February 2, 2023
(STAT News) – Like others, we began exploring potential medical applications for ChatGPT, which was trained on more than 570 gigabytes of online textual data, extracted from sources like books, web texts, Wikipedia, articles, and other content on the internet, … Read More
