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A Good Time To Pursue Medicine

First-year enrollment at U.S. medical schools is expected to increase by 21 percent, or 3,400, to 19,900 students by 2012, according to an annual survey by the Association of American Medical Colleges. More than 86 percent of existing medical schools have expanded the number of first-year students they take in, and nine new medical schools […]

July 9, 2008

Health

UC To Consider Taking Over Troubled South LA Hospital

The University of California is considering undertaking the monumental task of re-opening an inner-city public hospital that was largely shut down after years of negligence and patient deaths.

June 15, 2008

Latinx

Minority Doctors Underrepresented in California, Study Finds

A new report finds a “vast ethnic disparity in the state’s physician workforce, particularly for Latinos and African Americans,” when compared to the distribution of minority groups in the state’s population.

April 8, 2008

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NEEDED: OTHER FORMS OF EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION  One thing that concerns me about this and other articles (see “Emergency Notification in an Instant,” March 6) about emergency notification efforts is the emphasis that is placed on sending messages to student cell phones. We are a nonresidential college, so our students are pretty much only on campus […]

April 2, 2008

Faculty & Staff

The Heart of the Mission

As a top producer of minority health practitioners, a University of Illinois at Chicago program seeks to improve the quality of medical care in communities of color.

April 2, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Accreditation Is Restored for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of N.J.

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, a top producer of minority doctors and dentists, has had its accreditation restored by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

March 18, 2008

Health

Researchers at Odds Over Tuskegee Study

The infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, a government experiment that charted the effects of the untreated disease on mostly poor and uneducated Black men, was conducted for 40 years before it was exposed and ended in 1972 amid widespread condemnation.

March 12, 2008

Health

Racial Disparities In Cancer Treatment Persists

The recent efforts to close the gaps in therapy for various kinds of cancer between Black and White Medicare patients have failed, a Yale University study released this week found.

January 9, 2008

STEM

Charting the Course

Rutgers’ Office for Diversity and Academic Success in the Sciences provides step-by-step guidance to help aspiring minority physicians fulfill their dream.

November 14, 2007

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ND Higher Ed Committee Delays Formal Response to Med School Audit

BISMARCK N.D. Members of the state Board of Higher Education have put off a formal response to a state audit of the University of North Dakota medical school until they can meet with officials of the school and UND.

November 13, 2007

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Med School Audit Critical of Dean, Family Practice Finances

GRAND FORKS, N.D. A new audit is critical of the management of the University of North Dakota medical school and says family practice centers in Bismarck and Minot are on shaky financial footing.

November 8, 2007

STEM

LSU President: No Chance of Moving Medical School to Baton Rouge

BATON ROUGE, La. The chief of the LSU System says he has no interest in moving the university’s medical school in New Orleans to Baton Rouge.

November 5, 2007