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October 1, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
With a primary care provider shortage looming, medical schools are trying a new approach to get physicians into the workforce quickly: condensing medical education from four years to three.
September 5, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
RWJF extends a second grant to Khan Academy to continue their work reshaping free online medical education for future health care workers and patients who want to learn more about their own health care.
October 26, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
New data from the Association of American Medical Colleges finds a 3.1 percent increase in the number of students applying to medical school in 2012.
September 25, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Many elite medical schools — Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Yale, among them — have no departments of family medicine to train students who want to specialize in primary care.
May 16, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Enrollment at U.S. medical schools is growing, according to new data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The annual Medical School Enrollment Survey finds that first-year medical school enrollment is expected to reach 21,376 by ...
October 26, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
The number of first-time medical school applicants reached an all-time high this year, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The number of students applying to medical school for the first time in 2011 increased 2.6 perce ...
September 21, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
White Coat Notes, a blog of the Boston Globe, last week looked at two recent reports calling for changes in physician training. Leaders at the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Care in Boston published a report in the September issue of Health Affai ...
April 25, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Alan M. Garber, M.D., Ph.D., recipient of a 2003 RWJF Investigator Award in Health Policy Research (2003), will become the new provost of Harvard University on September 1. He attended Harvard as an undergraduate and also received his Ph.D. in econo ...
November 13, 2009 | Program Results Report
Case Western Reserve University participated in the Collaborative Interprofessional Team Education component of PQE (CITE). Its CITE project (entitled Catalyst for Kids) partnered its Bolton School of Nursing; its medical school's departments of pediatrics and pharmacy; and MetroHealth System, a managed care organization.
May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The Society of General Internal Medicine's Health Disparities Curriculum is found to be an effective tool in the effort to develop health care providers who are both committed and prepared to eliminate disparities in health care quality.