Breaking Down Barriers to Medical Education
January 8, 2013 | Story
Inspired, in part, by the students he guided as an RWJF program mentor, a physician finds a way to offer open access to MCAT tutoring.
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Description of a Research-Based Health Activism Curriculum for Medical Students
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Efforts should build on expanding and spreading health activism curricula.
Medical Students at Six Schools Learn how to Provide Palliative Care - And Their Teachers Learn How to Teach It
September 30, 2009 | Program Result Report
From November 2006 to May 2009, investigators at the Medical College of Wisconsin helped six medical schools develop educational programs for palliative care and trained faculty at those schools to teach in the field.
Establishing Nine Abilities Expected of All Brown University Medical Grads
May 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Beginning in 1990, Brown University School of Medicine redesigned its curriculum. The school delineated specific basic science and clinical medicine competencies expected of its graduates.
Med School Enrollment Shows Promise for Easing Physician Shortage
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.
Online Professionalism and the Mirror of Social Media
July 15, 2010 | Journal Article
Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia and blogs have brought new hazards to medical professionalism as providers, including medical students and residents, post inappropriate content online. Online activity may be viewed as a proxy for common sense and trustworthiness.
From Dr. Kildare to ER, Doctoring Through the Ages
May 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
In 2003, researchers at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, produced a video CD about the portrayal of physicians on prime-time television for distribution to medical students.
Group Seeks to Strengthen End-of-Life Care Content in Medical Licensing Exams
April 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
From 1998 to 2002, project staff at the National Board of Medical Examiners, Philadelphia, and expert consultants worked to strengthen the end-of-life care content in the medical licensing exams physicians must pass to practice medicine.
Reforms to Medical Curriculum Benefit Students at the University of New Mexico
May 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The University of New Mexico School of Medicine combined elements of its alternative curriculum with its traditional curriculum and offered the resulting integrated curriculum to all of its undergraduate medical students.
Reforming the Curriculum at Case Western Reserve Medical School
May 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine developed a plan to reform its medical education curriculum.