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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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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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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 23, 2024

Will Free Medical School Diversify the Physician Workforce? kathryn.palmer… Tue, 04/23/2024 - 03:00 AM A slew of medical colleges have gone tuition-free in recent years. But experts say it’s not enough to increase racial and ethnic diversity in the medical field. Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer

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JULY 8, 2024

This raises challenges and opportunities for medical schools. Instructors are integrating AI and ML into curricula to train medical students to practice medicine in the real world, says Dr. Bernard Chang, dean for medical education at Harvard Medical School, which is creating an AI in medicine doctorate track. “We

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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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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 29, 2024

Plans to open a for-profit medical school affiliated with Morgan State University in Baltimore have fallen badly behind schedule, The Baltimore Banner reported on Monday.

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JULY 9, 2024

Most students pursuing medical degrees at Johns Hopkins University will receive free tuition, thanks to a $1 billion gift from businessman Michael Bloomberg’s philanthropic organization. Nearly two-thirds of current and incoming students to the medical school will be eligible for the benefits. Read more from NPR.

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University Business

JULY 23, 2024

News & World Report on Tuesday published its list of the 2024 Best Medical Schools , but you won’t find where your institution ranks anywhere on the report. ” That also means that the list of best medical schools no longer covers specialties such as anesthesiology, surgery and family medicine.

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

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College for Creative Study

JULY 26, 2024

Dingell Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center. Dingell VA Medical Center appeared first on College for Creative Studies. Communication Design students worked in teams to develop full-scale co-brand concepts for the John D. The post Communication Design Students Craft Innovative Co-Brand Concepts for John D.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

The National Football League has announced the roster of medical students participating in the NFL Diversity in Sports Medicine Pipeline Initiative. Students will also become familiar with return-to-play protocols and on-field treatment considerations for NFL players.

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

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CU Work-Life Balance

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

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2024

Littles, who has served as interim dean since February 2023, served as a senior associate dean for medical education and academic affairs for nearly 20 years. Littles earned her medical degree from University of Florida College of Medicine and completed the Tallahassee Memorial Family Practice Residency Program. “Dr.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

struggles to recover from a disturbing decline in life expectancy, our country faces a serious shortage of doctors, nurses, and public health professionals — and yet, the high cost of medical, nursing, and graduate school too often bars students from enrolling," said Michael R. Michael Bloomberg "As the U.S.

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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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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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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2024

He served as chief of the Division of Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and director of its Center for Advancing Population Science. Egede holds a master’s from the Medical University of South Carolina and a medical degree from the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria.

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JULY 8, 2024

This was in addition to certificates in medical assisting and dental assisting, and for coding specialist. It offered associate degree-level programming in nursing, health information technology, and radiological technology as well as a bachelor’s degree in health information management. Department of 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

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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JUNE 17, 2024

The University of Rochester has received a $50 million gift from entrepreneur B. Thomas Golisano, the college announced Thursday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

Berg served as director of academic affairs for the Institute for Ethics, the secretary for the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs at the American Medical Association in Chicago, and adjunct professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Northwestern University Law School.

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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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