Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2023

A new study by Yale University finds that Black students are more likely to leave medical school than their white peers. students are 83% more likely than white students to leave medical school, and 20% of Black M.D.-Ph.D. In general, to really transform medical education and M.D. Mytien Nguyen, an M.D.-Ph.D.

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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. year grant from the Mellon Foundation will go towards the Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice, which aims to reduce health disparities in D.C.

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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., Would we be diluting their funding by coming into being?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Hochul has signed into law two bills that would make birth control and medication abortion easier to access, Livingston County News reported. The other would fund a program to provide medication abortion at SUNY and CUNY campus health centers.

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MAY 17, 2023

Medical assistants are critical to the operation of doctor’s offices, hospitals, and clinics. And we need more of them than ever: the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment of medical assistants will grow much faster than the average occupation over the next decade.

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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. The plan – pending Metro Council approval – involves the city paying Meharry $6.3

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The 93-year-old widow of a Wall Street financier has donated $1 billion to a Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, with instructions that the gift be used to cover tuition for all students going forward. Read more from The New York Times.

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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. The school owned or rented enslaved people who cooked, cleaned, and maintained buildings.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Second-year medical students who historically took Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) had long viewed the exam results as the deciding factor for which institution they’d match to pursue residency and fellowship training. The first of three exams, it was infamously cutthroat.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 25, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute: Paula Rochon, professor in the department of medicine and Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, explains why you may be taking too many medications.

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CAPD

APRIL 7, 2023

And not only is there a linguistic gap between you and your medical team, but there is also a cultural barrier that’s preventing you from getting the quality of care you need and deserve. A medical interpreter functions as a conduit, clarifier, cultural broker, and patient advocate. You don’t understand or speak English.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Jessica Miller, a first year medical student at the Edinburgh Medical School↗️, shares an inspiring initiative bringing together an Engagement and Inclusivity group. It aims to promote a sense of belonging and a space to enable friendly connections for Year 1 medical students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Picture this: you are in a hospital setting and you witness another staff member ask a Black medical student if they need help cleaning up. The staff member assumes the medical student is the janitor. Medical colleges nationwide are catching on and prioritizing the implementation of specialized training programs to address this.

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MARCH 12, 2024

The Maintenance Choice network comprises pharmacies where Anthem plan members can fill their long-term maintenance medications, in 90-day supplies, and have them covered by CVS Caremark. Enrolled members taking long-term maintenance medication must fill their prescriptions at specific pharmacies. Have questions?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Bowen, without cause Saturday three months into a medical leave she began after a scheduled surgery. Arkansas Tech University fired its president, Robin E.

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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. Construction is expected to begin this year and end in 2025.

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University Business

JANUARY 18, 2024

More than a century later, amid a nationwide shortage in primary care doctors, Duquesne is getting its medical school. The post A century in the making, Duquesne University opens its new medical school appeared first on University Business. Read more from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 11, 2023

Medical School Cancels Forum Expected to Criticize Diversity Efforts Scott Jaschik Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:14 AM

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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. Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?

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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. They said, “Our overriding concern is to help address and reduce inequities in medical school education.”

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CU Work-Life Balance

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It’s been cooking for months, and CU’s self-funded and self-administered Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) program will take effect on Jan. This new paid leave coverage will offer greater flexibility and paid leave options for employees who need to take an absence from work for medical or family care purposes. Starting Jan.

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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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 24, 2023

Rutgers University’s University Senate voted no confidence in President Jonathan Holloway over plans to merge the university’s two medical schools, at New Brunswick and at Newark, NorthJersey.com reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

George's remarkable efforts were supported by Tennessee State University and Meharry Medical College, who provided a system of preparation and support to nurture aspiring medical students. These institutions recognized the importance of guiding and preparing students like George for success in medical school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Greene has been appointed senior vice president of wellness, diversity, equity, and inclusion at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, an academic medical center operated by Rutgers University.

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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. Hide by line?:

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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.” AI-bot almost passes the US Medical Licensing Exam appeared first on University Business.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A $1 billion donation to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx borough of New York City will pay tuition for all of its students, The New York Times reported.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

in medical microbiology from the University of Georgia, and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine. Margie Lee Margie Lee has been appointed associate dean for research and graduate studies at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2023

Aultman has been appointed dean of the College of Graduate Studies for Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, Ohio. in medical ethics and cognitive science from Michigan State University. Aultman Julie M. Aultman earned a master’s degree in bioethics from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and a Ph.D.

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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. and an M.D.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As a medical school, our first priority is to train physicians, researchers, and other healthcare professionals. However, as an historically Black medical school (HBMS), we have a larger mission,” says Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, president and CEO of MSM. Graham says achieving medical equity across the world and in the U.S.

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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. Read more on The Hill.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Christa Johnson-Agbakwu Christa Johnson-Agbakwu has been appointed executive director of the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Collaborative in Health Equity. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a medical degree from Cornell University.

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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. Find out more about the Academic Minute here.

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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. More importantly, the students are part of a regional and statewide network of resources.

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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. Continue reading.

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