Can Future Docs Afford to Go Into Primary Care?
Researchers writing in Academic Medicine, the journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, think so. Or rather, after crunching the numbers – medical school debt load to potential income...
View ArticleBrown to offer new primary care MD program
Brown University's medical school plans to launch a new program for medical students who want to focus on primary care. The program also aims to boost the number of primary care doctors in Rhode Island.
View ArticleFuture Docs 6: Facing an older, sicker nation
As a nation, we’re getting older, and we’re getting sicker. More of us than ever are over the age of 65. And more of us are suffering from at least one chronic disease. Next in our Future Docs series,...
View ArticleDiversity in Med School: Some Ups, Some Downs
New data is out in a report from the Association of American Medical Colleges on diversity in medical school applications, enrollments, graduations, and faculty. The headlines: future doctors are still...
View ArticleFuture Docs 7: Sarah and Peter Reach a Milestone
During the past school year, Rhode Island Public Radio has been following two Brown University medical students to see how medical training is evolving with changes in health care. We’re checking in...
View ArticleFriday is 'Match Day' for the Nation's Future Doctors
This Friday at 1:00 pm EDT, more than 17,000 U.S. medical school seniors and another 16,000 other applicants (internationals, etc.) find out where they'll train as residents for the next several years...
View ArticleNew Med School at Quinnipiac Focused on Primary Care
This fall the new medical school at Connecticut's Quinnipiac University welcomes its first class of incoming students. And the school is apparently focused on turning out a particular kind of doctor....
View ArticleFuture Docs 9: Teaching Medical Ethics
Some of the toughest decisions any of us will ever make will take place in a doctor’s office. But before those decisions ever come up, doctors must often wrestle with the options themselves. And those...
View ArticleA Year of Future Docs, In One Documentary
Throughout the school year, we've been following two bright, young, future doctors. Now, we're wrapping up the journey with a one-hour documentary about the crucible of medical school, set against the...
View ArticleFood as Medicine: Doctors and Chefs Training Together
There’s no shortage of advice on healthy eating. But sometimes it seems there’s a shortage of reliable advice. Medical schools traditionally don’t offer much training in nutrition, but a new...
View ArticleFuture Docs 2: Rethinking Med School
Listen Listening.../PROVIDENCE, RI – By KRISTIN GOURLAYMedical school isn't what it used to be. Budding doctors have to learn more and study harder than ever. And changes in the health care system are...
View ArticleMedical School Enrollment at All-Time High
A new report out from the Association of American Medical Colleges says medical school enrollment is up, and that we’re on track to increase it 30% by 2016.Here are the numbers:
View ArticleThe Pulse: Teaching Anatomy With, Or Without, The Body
Medical students have been learning anatomy – by dissecting cadavers – in much the same way for hundreds years. But the method is time consuming.
View ArticleBrown Med Student Organizes 'Citizen Physicians' To Vote
A Brown University medical student wants to register every med student in the country to vote. And the group he founded is gaining momentum.
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