The University of Pennsylvania medical school is participating in an online education venture to provide free university seminars to the public on courses such as personalized medicine, vaccines and genomes.The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will initially offer six courses on Coursera’s network that cover healthcare, medicine and biology and total [...]

Northeast Ohio Medical University is planning $130 million worth of expansion in the next few years, including a new research and education facility as well as the medical school’s first-ever on-campus student apartments.Much of NEOMED’s growth at its Rootstown, Ohio campus will be fueled by enrollment gains as the college adds more medical and pharmacy [...]

I heard this over the weekend:“The students of today are training for a field that doesn’t currently exist.”Seems hard to believe, right?And yet, when I started medical school, there were no iPhones. In fact, there weren’t even cell phones. My first cellphone was acquired while I was in fellowship training and came with a shoulder [...]

The Obama administration is about to unveil a $1 billion plan to beef up the nation’s health care workforce. The goal, in part, is to increase the number of physicians available to serve the nation’s aging population.If one takes a superficial overview, one can find evidence to back up claims that [...]

Current medical news from today, including medical school applications increasing steadily since 2002, 6 of the 25 highest-paid CEOs are in healthcare, and GE Healthcare admits to glitch in EMR software.

Three University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine labs received $12.5 million in research funding for gene research and cancer treatment from the National Institutes of Health, reinforcing the medical school’s position as one of the country’s top grant recipients.Sunil Singhal M.D., director of the Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratory at the Perelman School of Medicine, [...]

The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University has received a five-year, $1 million grant to support fellowships for minority medical students.The grant comes from the KeyBank Foundation, and follows another $1 million gift from the foundation in 2007 for the same program, the Plain Dealer reported. The money will go [...]

The transformation from NEOUCOM to NEOMED is complete.Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED for short) unveiled a new logo and branding around its new, slimmed-down name.On Monday, NEOMED officials pulled back the curtain on new campus signage and social media accounts that featured the new branding for the Rootstown, Ohio-based university. The occasion marked the end [...]

The CEOs of two academic hospitals are upset that Congress may reduce the funding for Graduate Medical Education (GME) paid through Medicare. To fight back, they’ve written a scare story for the Wall Street Journal Op-Ed page (We Can’t Afford to Train Fewer Doctors) that’s full of omissions and misleading statements.To summarize their [...]

As of this writing, 5 air traffic controllers have been found asleep at the switch. By the time this piece is posted, several others may have joined the slumber party. Keep in mind, there’s a lot more snoozing in the towers than we’re aware of. We don’t know the denominator here. Our [...]