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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. These barriers [to entry] manifest early, prior to even applying to medical school,” says Faiz. Roughly half of the UC Davis School of Medicine’s class of 2026 represent minoritized populations.

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Harvard Medical School to Add Climate Change to Curriculum

Insight Into Diversity

A committee at Harvard Medical School (HMS) recently voted to integrate climate change into the curriculum for MD students. These topics will be embedded through a student’s medical education to help enhance the care they are able to provide to future patients who have been impacted by climate change.

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Researchers Call for Enhanced Obesity Training in Medical Schools

Insight Into Diversity

Given the prevalence of this chronic disease, researchers are calling for higher education medical institutions to strengthen training to prevent stigmatization and inadequate patient care. In a 2020 survey of 40 medical schools, 10 percent said their graduates are “very prepared” to manage patients who experience obesity.

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About That N.Y.U. Organic Chem Course

Inside Higher Ed

adjunct professor of organic chemistry, who was not retained by N.Y.U. Organic chemistry is a necessary pre-requisite for medical school, and often serves as a high-stakes, weed-out course for students walking that path. We apparently want the people who do this work to know this stuff.

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Reflections on failing organic chemistry (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

I failed organic chemistry. My brother, home for the summer, having completed his first year of medical school, accompanied him for the drive. Organic chemistry is hard. Or do well in organic chemistry. First at Brown, then at Yale. They are distinguished defeats, I’m proud to say.

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Melissa L. Gilliam Chosen as First Woman, First African American to Lead BU

Insight Into Diversity

Gilliam holds degrees from Yale University, the University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health. That is the best way to run big organizations, to get everyone excited and engaged and empowered and doing more than they think they’re capable of doing.”

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Fairview plans end to current partnership with University of Minnesota

University Business

The two organizations have partnered as M Health Fairview since 2018. It’s a large string of hospitals and clinics in the state — and a major source of funding for the university’s medical school. Fairview Health Services notified the University of Minnesota on Monday that it does not plan to extend its current partnership.