Every week, MedCity News highlights the best of its MedCitizens: syndication partners and MedCity News readers who discuss life science current events on MedCityNews.com.Now here’s the best of what YOU had to say:Medical school for free? Not a good idea. “But rather than focus a critical eye on why medical school has [...]

Don’t it always seem to go,That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.They paved paradise,And put up a parking lot.”– from “Big Yellow Taxi” by Joni MitchellAn opinion/policy piece appeared two days ago in the New York Times entitled “Why Medical School Should Be Free.” Hey, why not? If it’s free [...]

We have had many family conversations about education reform over the years. Whistleblower readers have seen some of this creeping through some prior posts. It’s an issue that affects every American and deserves the efforts of our most talented and innovative thinkers to elevate the system to a higher orbit.One of [...]

Wake Forest University’s new medical school dean will come from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.Dr. Edward Abraham, chair of the department of medicine at UAB, takes his new post in Winston-Salem, North Carolina effective Aug. 1. Abraham succeeds Dr. William Applegate, who has served as dean of the Wake Forest School of Medicine since [...]

Since starting this blog I have had the opportunity to stumble across interesting business terms currently in use in health care.As a service to our graduating medical students and residents entering our evolving world of medicine, I thought I’d assemble a reference source of important business terms for their use.This list [...]

A medical education partnership between Cleveland State University and Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) is set to kick off this fall with the goal of producing more primary care doctors in urban neighborhoods.Students in the program will begin at Cleveland State (CSU) and then move on to clinical study at NEOMED, which until recently was [...]

Ohio University‘s medical school will use a $105 million gift to establish a new campus in Central Ohio with an eye toward boosting the number of primary care doctors in the state.The gift, which university officials described as the largest ever for an Ohio institution of higher learning, comes from the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations, a [...]

The Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy is closer to a new, shorter name after the Ohio House of Representatives passed a measure that would make the school known as Northeast Ohio Medical University.House Bill 139 passed by a vote of 94-1 and moves onto the Ohio Senate. An “emergency” clause in the [...]

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a $1.6 million federal grant for research into how tumor cells avoid detection by the body’s immune system.The five-year grant comes from the National Cancer Institute and will help Case researchers examine “immune tolerance,” a process that keeps tumor cells from being detected by the immune [...]

I sometimes observe that the only sector of the economy as messed up as health care is higher education, where the US has some great institutions but where costs are incredibly high and have been rising relentlessly for long periods of time. These two dysfunctional systems intersect in multiple places, one [...]