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Harvard Morgue Manager Indicted for Stealing Human Remains

Inside Higher Ed

The manager of a morgue at Harvard Medical School allegedly stole human body parts that had been donated for educational use, according to a federal indictment, Boston-area ABC affiliate WCVB reported Wednesday.

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New HBCU Medical College in NOLA Will Confront Medical Inequities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They expect it will continue to boost the local economy, still recovering from Hurricane Katrina’s impact almost 20 years ago and will also allow for greater collaboration with other medical schools in the area, like Louisiana State University and Tulane University. This can be me.” Drew University of Medicine and Science.

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Rutgers Webinar Discusses Health Equity, Minority Health, and Medical Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. At that time, there were two predominantly Black medical schools in the U.S., Sullivan, former Secretary of the U.S.

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Health Professions Students Grade Their Institutions on Climate Change Awareness

Insight Into Diversity

Developed in 2019 by a group of students at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, the PHRC is an advocacy tool intended to increase the planetary health awareness and accountability of medical schools. Currently, this issue is underrepresented in health care curriculums.

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What Higher Education Can Learn from a Public Charity Hospital

Inside Higher Ed

Systemic and structural bias are often manifest in disparities in education, healthcare, housing, employment, and criminal justice. Strikingly, a Black woman with a college education is as likely to die or nearly die in childbirth as a white woman with an eighth-grade education. Even more striking are two striking facts.

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FTC Refunds $830K to Former Saint James Med School Students

Inside Higher Ed

percent pass rate and guaranteed that students would pass the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1. “While we strongly disagree with the FTC’s approach to this matter, we did not want a lengthy legal process to distract from our mission of providing a quality medical education at an affordable cost.

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Decentralisation and the case for moving to a tertiary education system

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It is palpably evident that centralisation under an Office for Students (established as primarily a Regulator but replacing the UGC and its successor body, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)) is running out of road. Policy had become centralised although institutional autonomy was pledged to be preserved.