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Opioid crisis can’t be tackled without better pain management training for doctors

Many primary care practitioners are not adequately trained in pain management since learning about it is not required in medical school or during residency, a physician writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Medical students lose their empathy – here's what can be done about it

A lack of empathy in healthcare can be disastrous. In the UK, between 2005 and 2009, hundreds of avoidable deaths occurred at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The Francis report, which investigated the causes of the failings, concluded that a lack of empathy contributed to the catastrophe.

The Conversation

Diversity in medicine can save lives. Here's why there aren't more doctors of color

The U.S. desperately needs more Black and Hispanic doctors, research shows. But financial pressures and discrimination can keep young people from even applying to med school.

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'May cause serious side-effects': How medical school admissions can perpetuate inequality and reward privilege

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 Conversation

Don't bet with ChatGPT – study shows language AIs often make irrational decisions

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…

The Conversation

Woman Who Beat Cancer At 14 Now Training To Become Doctor

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

Zenger

Communication in brain changes during dieting: Study

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…

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California needs more Black, Latino doctors. Could community colleges be part of the solution?

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.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: For healthy communities, medical schools must increase student diversity

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…

Tribune News Service

Mosley wakes up Aussies to their sleep issues

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…

Newcastle Herald

Student rushed to hospital with ‘pulled muscle’ diagnosed with rare cancer

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

The Independent UK

No Pseudonymity in Student's Claim That She Was Wrongly Found to Have Cheated

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…

Reason

Specialty residencies remain popular among future doctors

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.

Axios

Labour challenges Hunt to adopt NHS training policy he wanted to ‘nick’

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

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Draft of NHS workforce plan calls for doubling of medical school places

Plan expected to be published next month could propose increasing places from 7,500 to 15,000

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: A welcome revolt against the flawed college ranking system

A handful of top medical schools, including Stanford and Columbia, pulled out of U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings in January, following a similar exodus of more than a dozen law schools, including UC Berkeley, Yale and Harvard, late last year. It’s a welcome development that is overdue. Undergraduate…

WEKU

Scant obesity training in medical school leaves docs ill-prepared to help patients

Most doctors get little training in the science of obesity or how to counsel people with the disease. As a result, many patients experience stigma in the exam room.

The Guardian - UK

‘Culture is hard to break’: Kenya’s medical schools face a shortage of cadavers

Medical training is in demand, but hesitancy on body donation means students have little to work with, while an illicit trade in transplant organs flourishes

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Government refuses to fund UK students at new medical school despite ‘chronic’ doctor shortage

The centre at Worcester University could be forced to train only overseas students, who are unlikely to remain in Britain

Evening Standard

UK must train more doctors and nurses, says NHS boss

Amanda Pritchard said “excellent” British candidates are being rejected from medical schools due to a lack of places

The Texas Tribune

In lawsuit, student claims six Texas medical schools are illegally considering race and sex in admissions

The plaintiff is represented by a group created by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller and former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell, the architect of the state’s six-week abortion ban.

Irish Mirror

Love Island star shuns fame and returns to medical school to finish her final year

Love Island star Priya Gopaldas has left the world of showbiz behind and returned to medical school to complete her studies, after enjoying a stint in the iconic Spanish villa in 2021

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Researchers Find Two Protein Pathways Downregulated In Postnatal Heart

Published on Thursday in Stem Cell Reports, researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School discovered two signalling pathways that are downregulated in human hearts after birth. Read on for details:

The Independent UK

California university apologizes for prisoner experiments

A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s

The Times of India

Identical twins sue school on being accused of cheating on exam; win $1.5M

Twin sisters Kayla and Kellie Bingham were both aspiring doctors. However, their dreams were shattered when in 2016, they were accused of cheating on their year-end medical school exams, following which they filed a defamation case against the school.

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