Want to be a doctor, but have a disability? Many medical schools look unwelcoming
They may dream of becoming doctors, and helping people like themselves.
Feb 11, 2016
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They may dream of becoming doctors, and helping people like themselves.
Feb 11, 2016
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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), established under the Affordable Care Act, is charged with funding research that ultimately helps patients make better-informed health care decisions. But some at ...
Feb 11, 2016
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Might it be possible to identify and then reach out to help medical students whose actions may put them at risk of lapses in professionalism in medical school and beyond? Professionalism lapses are the most common cause for ...
Jan 21, 2016
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As American medical students increasingly want and expect to have international work experience, more and more short-term programs are being offered to give them that opportunity, according to Melissa Melby, assistant professor ...
Jan 5, 2016
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Measures instituted in recent years to encourage the sharing of scientific information appear to have reduced the overall level of withholding of data and materials among academic life science researchers. In their follow ...
Dec 17, 2015
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Academic medical centers that take on community partners to form accountable care organizations face a number of unexpected challenges, says Scott Berkowitz, M.D., M.B.A., medical director of accountable care for the Office ...
Dec 14, 2015
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A growing number of health consumers are consulting online physician-rating sites when choosing doctors even if the value of those sites—whether they're reliable sources for information, or capable of driving improvements ...
Dec 1, 2015
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Medical students at Penn State are now receiving training in health systems sciences and patient navigation, along with the traditional areas of medical education.
Oct 22, 2015
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Using eye-tracking glasses, Queen's University professor Adam Szulewski (Emergency Medicine) has developed a new method to determine how novice medical students learn compared to more experienced medical professionals.
Sep 21, 2015
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(HealthDay)—An accelerated baccalaureate (BA)/doctor of medicine (MD) program does not impair the academic performance of medical students, according to a study published online July 3 in Academic Medicine.
Sep 9, 2015
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