The Latest Breaking News from Medical School

Would-be physicians are often told that a winning medical school application requires stories about observing clinical care. Applicants’ quests to get clinical experiences — through, for example, physician shadowing, global health experiences or medical scribe work — can have harmful unintended consequences.

The past few years have seen an explosion of progress in large language model artificial intelligence systems that can do things like write poetry, conduct humanlike conversations and pass medical school exams. This progress has yielded models like ChatGPT that could have major social and economic ramifications ranging from job…

Ellie Waters, who overcame cancer at the age of 14 despite being given a 20% chance of surviving, is now pursuing medical school.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research and Harvard Medical School have now shown in mice that communication in the brain changes during a diet: The nerve cells that mediate the feeling of hunger receive stronger signals, so that the mice eat significantly more after the diet and…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California has struggled for years to recruit aspiring physicians of color into its health care workforce, despite the state’s highly diverse population.

This month, a very significant event for millions of Americans took place: the National Resident Matching Program’s annual residency match. This is when medical school graduates hope to find a residency program where they will continue their graduate medical education. These are the physicians who will be caring for you…

YOU'LL often find Dr Michael Mosley awake at 3am. Not because the British documentary maker and science journalist is a renown night owl or party animal, but because he suffers from "terrible insomnia." "I find it easy to go to sleep but I tend to wake up at 3am and…

Elena Espinosa Cabrera, 20, was revising for her medical school entrance exams when she went to A&E with pain in her abdomen

From Doe v. Univ. of Penn., decided today by Judge Cynthia Rufe (E.D. Pa.): At all times relevant to this action, Plaintiff was a student in Penn's Pre-Med Post- Baccalaureate Program …. Plaintiff began the Program in May 2020, and had planned to apply to medical school upon its completion…

More medical school graduates are steering away from emergency medicine and opting for specialties like orthopedics and plastic surgery, raising concern about a field that bore the brunt of COVID-19 and remains beset by the overdose epidemic and other health crises.

Rachel Reeves tasks chancellor with finding money to double England’s doctor and nurse training places