Despite decades of effort to improve the number of African-American physicians practicing in the U.S., black students remain an underrepresented minority in medical schools, a USA Today investigation found.
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Veteran ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen has spent more than a decade investigating the healthcare industry and how health systems measure the quality of physicians. Because of his job as a journalist and lack of medical degree or any professional health…
The Washington, D.C.-based Georgetown University School of Medicine is launching a campaign to help students learn about and fight microaggressions in medicine, according to The College Fix.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine appointed Amy Acton, MD, to serve as chief of the state's health department during a press conference Feb. 26, according to the Dayton Daily News.
Detroit-based Wayne State University School of Medicine officials said they hope to resume negotiations with Henry Ford Health System over a shared medical education partnership — negotiations that reportedly collapsed this past weekend, The Detroit News reports.
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A university Senate committee decided the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis was fully within its rights to delay a reproductive health fellowship, but officials should have reached out to administration to discuss the decision, Minnesota Daily reports.
In February 2017, a Dallas-based school nurse began keeping a list of all the women murdered by men. Roughly two years later, the database includes nearly 2,500 women from across the U.S.
Saint Anthony Hospital (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.) uses technology to help prioritize the needs of communities it serves.
The Providence Heart and Vascular Institute in Renton, Wash., has stepped in to help heart transplant patients after Portland, Ore.-based OHSU deactivated its program last fall, according to KATU 2 News.
Data from the Association of American Medical Colleges states that while half of the students attending medical school in 2018 were female, only 9 percent of them sought to pursue a surgical specialty. One Florida physician is trying to shift…