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Explore Careers in Medicine & Healthcare this IAP!

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MIT Alumni Discuss their Experience in Medical School | Jan 10 th 6:00 – 7:00 pm ET | Zoom link here Join MIT’s Prehealth Advising for a panel of 3 MIT alumni currently in their first year of medical school to get answers to your most pressing questions about medical school and being prehealth at MIT.

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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Bitter controversy has recently swirled around California’s revised Mathematics Framework, a set of recommendations about how math should be taught in the state’s K-12 schools. At stake are hot-button issues involving equity, privilege, socioeconomic class and gender, ethnicity and race.

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What could virtual reality mean for higher ed?

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Blogs What could virtual reality mean for higher ed? VR could address two age-old pedagogical challenges: inspiration and application Didactic “information transmission” often fails to provide inspiration and application, leaving requiring highly motivated students to answer “why does this matter?” and “how can I use this?”

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Study Abroad Hidden Gems in Fall 2023 

AIFS Abroad

AIFS Abroad student in Salamanca, Spain #2: Medical and Health Program | Salamanca, Spain All courses are taught in English except for one course (Health Communication) which is available in English or Spanish. Students can choose up to 5 courses; a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 4 must be from the Health and Medical Program.

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How Virtual Reality is Changing Campuses

Higher Ed Connects: Technology

But thanks to technological limitations and prohibitive costs, it didn’t. Now, 20 years after that breathless article, VR technology is finally catching up with its promise. Ryan, writing for the AbleGamers blog, says he seldom uses VR because he doesn’t want to be tethered to a computer, unable to see or escape without help. “I

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The Challenges of International Credential Evaluation

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We need to be well informed about our own education system because this is the system that we are measuring an international program against. But however, in the United States, if we’re familiar with how medical education is offered here, you cannot get into a medical school directly after high school.