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A novel program in Tennessee aims to interest more Black and other minority medical students in organ transplants, to help ease troubling disparities.
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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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The first med school in Brevard, through an arrangement with FIT and New Mexico's Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, will open as the state faces a shortage of physicians.
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JU will partner with Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, which will build a facility in the university's medical mall, officials said.
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Residents at a tent shelter get health care they often struggle to access elsewhere. Students learn to adapt treatment when the ideal solution isn't feasible.
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The center will be part of a partnership between the university and Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare. FSU's president expects it will attract more physician scientists to the Tallahassee area.
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The Association of American Medical Colleges plans to roll out new diversity, equity, and inclusion standards aimed at teaching doctors, among other things, how to treat patients who are overweight with respect.
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Growing up in a family of casino workers in Nevada, Samantha Marazita said she never pictured herself as the type to go to med school. Now she is being awarded her MD, as part of the inaugural class of Nova Southeastern's of Allopathic Medicine.
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FAU and FIU are among many colleges and universities seeing an influx of applications as a result of the pandemic. Some say the interest is generated by the public profile of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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Montana is one of only four states without a medical school, and two groups with different financial models hope to remedy that. One plans a for-profit school, but critics say students may suffer.