Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

For the first time in nearly 50 years, the number of Black medical schools in the country is growing. The fourth and newest, an independent four-year medical program at the Charles R. CDU joins Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., Dr. John W.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 18, 2023

As part of a multi-campus strategy, upGrad is opening a new medical school in the South Pacific country of Vanuatu. In February 2024, upGrad Institute of Medical Sciences will welcome its first cohort of approximately 100 students. The post upGrad recruits for new Vanuatu medical school appeared first on The PIE News.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

International students attending medical schools in the Caribbean are being saddled with huge loan debts while facing limited chances of securing residency positions needed to become practising doctors, a new study has said. It’s the school that should be held accountable. It’s really putting the students in a challenging spot”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2023

Rutgers University's plan to merge New Jersey’s two largest public medical schools, New Jersey Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has proven controversial, NorthJersey.com reported. Brian Strom, chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

medical schools have increasingly come from households with higher incomes, according to a Yale-led study. The findings of the study – published May 11 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) – show disparities in access to medical education and could have negative impacts on patient care, according to researchers.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

Ryan, The Boston Globe, Getty Images Harvard Medical School. Like the law-school leaders before him, the Harvard dean George Q. By Francie Diep. Daley said rankings create perverse incentives.

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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 11, 2023

Medical School Cancels Forum Expected to Criticize Diversity Efforts Scott Jaschik Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:14 AM

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Higher Ed Dive

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Two-thirds of surveyed schools have a plan to diversify faculty recruitment, but less than half of promotion and tenure policies reward faculty DEI work.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Swiss biotech executive and philanthropist Ernesto Bertarelli has pledged $75 million to Harvard Medical School to advance scientific discovery and a “culture of entrepreneurship,” the university announced Tuesday. ” Bertarelli is a graduate of Harvard Business School and current chair of the HMS Board of Fellows.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically Black university, and Ochsner Health, a health-care system in the state, announced plans to jointly establish a new medical school. The goal is to help diversify the medical workforce in Louisiana and nationwide. Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?

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University Business

JANUARY 18, 2024

More than a century later, amid a nationwide shortage in primary care doctors, Duquesne is getting its medical school. The post A century in the making, Duquesne University opens its new medical school appeared first on University Business. Read more from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

A white man filed a suit against six Texas medical schools Tuesday, charging them with illegally considering issues of race and gender when rejecting him, The Texas Tribune reported. He scored a 511 out of a possible 528 on the exam required for medical school admission, known as the MCAT. The lawsuit comes as the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Retired clarinetist Edward Avedisian has donated $100 million to the Boston University medical school, the university announced Thursday. The school, which since 1873 has been called the Boston University School of Medicine, will now be known as the Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

He said that some overseas medical schools are exempt from meeting the minimum standards to which other foreign medical schools are held: that at least 60 percent of their enrollment must be non-U.S. Medical Licensing Exam. His bill would end the exemption.

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Higher Ed Dive

MAY 11, 2023

The methodology changes follow an exodus of institutions from those rankings that began last year.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 24, 2023

Rutgers University’s University Senate voted no confidence in President Jonathan Holloway over plans to merge the university’s two medical schools, at New Brunswick and at Newark, NorthJersey.com reported.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

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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FIRE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Less than a week after FIRE raised concerns about compelled speech at the University of Minnesota Medical School, the university assured us no student would face repercussions for refusing to say a political oath at its white coat ceremony. . This is a welcome result at a public medical school bound by the First Amendment.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

RISD’s rejection of the controversial lists is the first since law and medical schools began a recent exodus.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

The medical school at Virginia Commonwealth University depended on and profited from slavery, according to a report commissioned by the university, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The medical college was “intimately connected” to the institution of slavery in the mid-1800s, according to the report.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The proposal to increase the number of places in UK medical schools from 7,500 to 15,000 is contained in a draft of NHS England’s long-awaited workforce plan, which is expected to be published next month. Continue reading.

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University Business

JANUARY 18, 2023

Harvard University Medical School is withdrawing from U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of top medical schools in the country based on “philosophical” issues with the list. The post Harvard Medical School announces withdrawal from U.S. Read more on The Hill.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), disrupting and erasing health disparities is more than just part of their mission statement. Valerie Montgomery Rice and other experts are excited about the $2 million donation from the Croel Family Foundation for the development of the David Satcher Global Health Equity Institute at the school. “As

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The Higher Ed Marketer

JUNE 14, 2022

How do you market a school that is in the process of being built? . In this episode, Dr. Michael Rice details his next exciting opportunity: Director of Admissions at the Osteopathic Medical School at Duquesne University. The school is currently being built from the ground up and will start matriculating students in 2024.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 18, 2023

Training more doctors isn't as simple as raising the caps on medical school places. David Kernohan learns the true cost of medical training The post Why can’t we just have more medical student places? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 24, 2023

McPherson College announced a $500 million gift Friday. The donor is anonymous. The donor has previously pledged $500 million. The combined $1 billion gift will be paid over time until the donor’s death, at which point the remaining funds will be paid.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2023

The UC Riverside (UCR) School of Medicine has accepted its first class of California Medicine Scholars. This spring, these community college students from inland Southern California will receive academic support as they pursue medical education. CMSP has four RHHOs.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a debate about medical school places continues, Charlie Sellar urges a focus on the social make-up of those medical trainees. The post Why do students have to suffer when taking on a medical degree? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Wonkhe

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Universities UK, the Medical Schools Council, and the Council of Deans of Health have responded to the NHS long-term workforce plan with a call for thoughtful reform of medical and healthcare provision and funding.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. The medical schools of Cornell University and the University of Chicago are the latest to join the movement. They said, “Our overriding concern is to help address and reduce inequities in medical school education.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 12, 2023

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Barbara Jones will become dean of the Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW), effective Aug. She is also the inaugural chair of the Department of Health Social Work at UT Austin’s Dell Medical School. “I She will also be a tenured professor in BUSSW’s department of clinical practice.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

Medical School and Veterans Affairs Partnerships Advance Research, Innovation Since the end of World War II, when an overwhelming number of veterans returned from deployment in need of care, the U.S. Nearly 70 percent of all physicians have trained with the VA in at least one of its 170 medical centers.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A London medical school has signed a merger agreement with one of the capital’s leading universities, bidding to create a “world-class institution”. City St George’s, which combines City, University of London and St. George’s medical school, will begin operating from August 1, 2024, subject to necessary regulatory approvals.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

More than 1,300 former Saint James School of Medicine students are receiving more than $830,000 in payments as part of a settlement reached between the for-profit institution and the Federal Trade Commission. percent pass rate and guaranteed that students would pass the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A Massachusetts judge has dismissed claims that Harvard University was partly liable for the actions of a former employee of the institution’s medical school who stole and sold human remains, CNN reported Tuesday.

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