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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. At that time, there were two predominantly Black medical schools in the U.S.,
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 19, 2023
Georgetown University and Howard University have been awarded a $3 million grant to help fund the establishment of a center for medical humanities. The center will apply a medical humanities approach in addressing health disparities related to race/ethnicity and income, and health equity.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Meharry Medical College and Nashville Metro government have come to an agreement that will give millions of dollars to the college for housing Nashville General Hospital, The Tennessean r eported.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 9, 2023
Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) medical college was “intimately connected” to slavery in the mid-1800s, according to a report commissioned by VCU and published last month, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Swiss biotech executive and philanthropist Ernesto Bertarelli has pledged $75 million to Harvard Medical School to advance scientific discovery and a “culture of entrepreneurship,” the university announced Tuesday. The gift will also allow HMS to move ahead with plans to convert the courtyard outside Building C—one of the five buildings forming the medical campus’s main quad—into a skylight-covered atrium.
The Guardian Higher Education
JANUARY 14, 2023
The government is refusing to fund a single place at Three Counties Medical School, University of Worcester, despite health bosses in the area saying they are spending £70m a year on agency staff to plug a chronic shortage of doctors.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 27, 2023
More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. The medical schools of Cornell University and the University of Chicago are the latest to join the movement. News’ Rankings of Medical, Law Schools Trending: Trending text: More Quit 'U.S.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 18, 2023
Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically Black university, and Ochsner Health, a health-care system in the state, announced plans to jointly establish a new medical school. The goal is to help diversify the medical workforce in Louisiana and nationwide. The new medical school will use facilities and employ personnel from both institutions, according to a joint press release.
University Business
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Now, the AI chatbot has been found to score at or around the approximately 60 percent passing threshold for the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), “with responses that make coherent, internal sense and contain frequent insights.”
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 9, 2023
The medical school at Virginia Commonwealth University depended on and profited from slavery, according to a report commissioned by the university, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The medical college was “intimately connected” to the institution of slavery in the mid-1800s, according to the report. The report called the use of enslaved workers a “sad and troubling chapter” in the history of VCU’s medical college.
University Business
JANUARY 6, 2023
Twenty-four of those universities invested more than $1 billion and all but three reported R&D expenditures for their medical schools. Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $1.billion.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 12, 2023
A white man filed a suit against six Texas medical schools Tuesday, charging them with illegally considering issues of race and gender when rejecting him, The Texas Tribune reported. He scored a 511 out of a possible 528 on the exam required for medical school admission, known as the MCAT. The medical schools did not comment.
University Business
JANUARY 18, 2023
Harvard University Medical School is withdrawing from U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of top medical schools in the country based on “philosophical” issues with the list. The post Harvard Medical School announces withdrawal from U.S.
The Guardian Higher Education
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
The proposal to increase the number of places in UK medical schools from 7,500 to 15,000 is contained in a draft of NHS England’s long-awaited workforce plan, which is expected to be published next month. Plan expected to be published next month could propose increasing places from 7,500 to 15,000 Britain could double the number of doctors and nurses it trains under NHS plans to tackle a deepening staffing crisis, according to reports.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
DECEMBER 27, 2022
distinguished professor of psychology at Florida International University, discussed why medications may not always be the answer for certain disorders. It’s "Best Of" Week on the Academic Minute. In our fourth most listened-to segment of the year, William E. Pelham Jr., Find out more about the Academic Minute here. Section: Academic Minute Event's date: Thursday, December 29, 2022 - 4:45pm Insider only
Teaching Matters Academic Support
MARCH 20, 2023
Donna is a final year PhD student (Clinical Education) at the Edinburgh Medical School.
Teaching Matters Experiential Learning
OCTOBER 4, 2022
In this post, Isla Petrie, a senior student at the Medical School, reflects on an exciting student-led research expedition in the mountains of South America, organised through Student Partnership Agreement funding.
Teaching Matters Online Learning
OCTOBER 31, 2022
In this extra post, Jane Hislop and Tim Fawns from The University of Edinburgh’s Medical School continue conversation on effective feedback by spotlighting the success of their online MSc Clinical Education course.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2023
Lucchinetti has been named senior vice president for medical affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and dean of the Dell Medical School. She will hold the Frank and Charmaine Denius Distinguished Dean’s Chair in Medical Leadership. from Rush Medical College in Chicago.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Michelle Nichols Michelle Nichols has been named senior vice president of clinical affairs at Meharry Medical College in Nashville. She was associate dean for clinical affairs at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta and medical director for Morehouse Healthcare.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 27, 2023
This spring, these community college students from inland Southern California will receive academic support as they pursue medical education. The UC Riverside (UCR) School of Medicine has accepted its first class of California Medicine Scholars.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 19, 2023
Ayala has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Long Island University, a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University, and a medical doctorate from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Gladys M. Ayala Gladys M.
HECG
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
This is particularly so in Australia’s Health and Medical Research field. She made an extensive contribution to the latest DHCRC report Flying Blind, Australian Researchers and Digital Health Australian Health Data Series: Volume 2 , which puts the spotlight on how researchers access and use data for health and medical research. Academics Health HECG Higher Education Medical Medical and health research Research Universities higher educationBy DAVID MYTON.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 28, 2023
She earned her medical degree at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Chemen Neal Chemen Neal has been appointed executive associate dean for diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice and chief diversity officer at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 5, 2023
Webley holds a bachelor’s degree in medical technology from Northern Caribbean University, Mandeville, Jamaica, and master’s and doctorate degrees in microbiology from UMass Amherst.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 12, 2023
Derricott earned a bachelor’s degree from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and a master of public health degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 19, 2022
in biomedical sciences from Meharry Medical College in Nashville. Eric Buckles Eric Buckles has been named interim associate provost for the Division of Academic Affairs at Dillard University in New Orleans.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
million grant from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information – will select undergraduates for training, advising, and support to increase readiness for medical school.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2022
The University of Dayton (UDayton) will launch a fellowship program to provide paid internships, mentoring, and professional development to underrepresented students from the Dayton region.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Kim Schatzel will become president of the University of Louisville, effective Feb. 1, 2023.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
This can further assist with fewer medication errors. Underrepresented-in-medicine minorities are more likely to work in communities or settings with medically underserved minority populations.” They take a course with medical students and nursing students.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Robinson holds a Master of Arts in Medical Informatics from Columbia University; a Doctor of Dental Medicine in Dentistry from Rutgers University, Newark; and a bachelor's degree in biology from Adelphi University.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 13, 2023
All of them were later medically cleared, Amherst town manager Paul Bockelman said. Nearly 50 students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst were hospitalized this past weekend after engaging in a drinking challenge popular on social media platform TikTok, CBS News reported.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
We are educating the next generation of scientists who will solve some of our most difficult medical challenges," said SLU President Dr. Fred P.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 1, 2023
13, said Dr. Keith Williamson, co-chair of the task force and medical director at the Vinson Health Center at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX. Dr. Laura Erickson-Schroth, chief medical officer of the JED Foundation.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 1, 2023
The University of Louisville (UofL) has launched a fundraising campaign to match a $10 million state investment, which will go towards adding endowed faculty positions and advancing university research.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 5, 2023
The school also plans to launch programs for students who want to become certified nursing assistants, emergency medical technicians, home health aides and pharmacy technicians.
Ray Schroeder
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
A controversial physician and author urged the Kansas Legislature to ban hospitals and medical schools from compelling students and employees to pledge allegiance to critical race theory, affirmative action and diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
University Business
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
College students in Florida are planning to walk out of classes on Feb. 23 to protest Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ recent orders regarding higher education and ‘anti-woke’ policies.
Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson
OCTOBER 31, 2022
These include 3D visualisations of the human body for medical purposes, and of engineering and architectural designs that aid a deeper understanding of structure. I am not selling anything here.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Augusta University’s College of Nursing realized it needed to better train students on how to support family members when patients are near the end of life after recent graduates told faculty how emotionally unprepared they were the first time they faced the situation.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Her work has led to several technological advances, such as simulation tools for assessing emergency department patient flow, improved manufacturing processes for medical devices, and a sensor-based system to conduct early screening of Parkinson’s disease. Harriet B.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 23, 2023
She is also the founding chairperson of the department of surgery and the first associate dean for post-graduate medical education at the Aga Khan University in Karachi. Farhat Moazam To Dr. Farhat Moazam, being a good physician involves more than just knowing medicine.
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