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.
Health Executives on Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
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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Market Trends to Watch for Health Systems and Their Specialty Pharmacies
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
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.
Reducing Clinical and Staff Burnout with AI Automation
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
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 […]