Kaiser Permanente opens new medical school in Pasadena
Kaiser Permanente opened its first medical school in Pasadena, California. Its first class of 50 students will have a mixture of in-person and virtual classes this year.
NYU School of Medicine’s tuition-free decision sparks debate
Not everyone thinks that making medical school tuition-free for all students, including those who can afford it, is the best way to approach the complicated issue of student debt.
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Jefferson’s medical school program offers a pathway for hospitals to integrate patient-centered design
One of the goals of Jefferson's Health Design Lab is to create a new generation of physicians who not only know how to treat their patients but to help them develop the skillsets to solve problems in thoughtful, creative ways.
Star Trek stethoscopes? What next-gen med students need to know
Medical schools around the country are implementing new curriculums that include team-based learning, social medicine, humanities, and global population science, in addition to traditional educational content that encourages a science and reasoning-based approach.
Harvard Medical School offers 10-week online courses for $800 a pop
Harvard Medical School is giving students of all stripes a way to learn about medicine and healthcare through its HMX Fundamentals program.
Why is a move to ‘standardize’ patient encounters infuriating medical students?
Unnecessary testing is a waste of time and resources for physician-trainees who are increasingly thrown under the bus by the non-practicing bureaucratic elite.
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A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Why medical schools have been popping up all over (and will keep coming)
But what about the residency shortage?
Where’s the glass ceiling for women in medicine? At the rank of professor
Despite the fact that women do as much medical research as their male counterparts.
Is Maintenance of Certification a concept that’s reached its end?
It was a bad idea done for bad reasons and should not reach a rightful end.
When doctors become entrepreneurs, on today’s MedHeads
Special guest Dr. Wen Dombrowski - aka. @HealthcareWen.
Maximize Revenue and Patient Care with Strategic Weight Loss Management
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
What do you think about Medical School 2.0?
Medicine has changed a lot in the past 100 years. But medical training has not. Until now. Spurred on by the need to train a different type of doctor, medical schools around the country are tearing up the textbooks and starting from scratch. Most medical schools still operate under a model pioneered in the early […]
U.S. Navy gets into mobile health apps
The U.S. Navy has jumped into the mobile health app market, with the recent launch of its Anatomy Study Guide App that aims to help aspiring medical students. The Navy’s ad agency, Lowe Campell Ewald, designed the app “that will serve as a relevant tool to help students with their studies and remind them that […]