It's an issue every medical school is grappling with: how to keep tuition costs under control. Gary Leroy, associate dean of student affairs at Wright State University's Boonshoft Medical School...
Can you teach empathy? How much time should med students spend in the classroom vs. hands-on learning? Why does every med student fear the match? Second year Jefferson Medical College...
Vivian Lee, MD, PhD, MBA, emphasizes that while much is in flux in academic medicine, the role of scientists and educators remains core to our future success.
What is the best way to deliver a lecture? What experiences do students remember the most? How can students contribute in a meaningful way? Hear perspectives from Jeffrey Zabinski, 3rd...
The delivery system is influencing education, and educating is improving the delivery system. Education, scholarship and service all work together in the virtuous cycle.
Michael Good, M.D., Dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Florida, teaches students and providers to stay focused on patients. Change will work itself out.
Shana Sandberg with the AAMC's Center for Workforce Studies discusses the new guide for implementing hotspotting. Hear how the tool was developed, and download the guide at www.aamc.org/hotspotter
Health care as an industry has found itself at a pivotal "moment of truth" and leaders in academic medicine must step up to the plate to help find solutions during...
Ajay Major is a self-described "medical student activist" and founder/co-Editor in Chief of in-Training.org. In this conversation, Ajay shares how he found his activist side, his goals for in-Training, and...
How do we prepare Boomers to teach Millennials? Hint: the teacher isn't teaching if the learner isn't learning. Reaching the next generation of medical students: an interview with Kirtly Parker...
What's a great way to capture the idealism of medical students? Hotspotting. Find out how students are helping the country's most at risk patients. An interview with Clese Erikson with...
What is the "change imperative?" What are the most vexing problems facing academic medicine? Why MOOCs (massive open online courses) aren't threats, they're opportunities. Vivian Lee, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A, senior...
President Obama's health care reform simply won't work, said Arnold Relman, M.D. , former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and professor emeritus of medicine and social medicine...
It became known as the "baby bong project." Stanford University students looking for cost-effective ways to build inhalers for impoverished children in Latin America stumbled upon an unorthodox method during...
