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Budding doctors will study medicine after taking part in Aberdeen University initiative
Jan 07, 2019
Replacement News article from "Scotland implements widened access to medical education" as previous article was incorrect. It stated Glasgow and Dundee when it should have been Glasgow and Aberdeen. Many thanks for update/correction - keep the news coming in.
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Enough Talk: Preventing Burnout During Medical TrainingEnough Talk: Preventing Burnout During Medical Training
Jan 04, 2019
Alexia Mieses looks at what the medical education community is actually doing about trying to prevent burnout in medical students and physicians.
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Machine learning and medical education
Jan 02, 2019
With the increased use of artificial intelligence in medicine, how do we incorporate this into medical education in order to establish in future doctors an understanding of how AI knowledge can be administered and utilised in the clinical setting?
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Programme shows pupils the work of GPs
Dec 18, 2018
News article from rural Scotland. NHS Highland has extended its scheme to give school pupils experience of medicine to now include general practice.
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Government to cut years required for medical studies
Dec 14, 2018
News from Luxembourg of new reforms from 2020 that will reduce medical training time in an attempt to increase the number of clinicians in the country.
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Breaking from tradition in medical education architecture
Dec 13, 2018
Dr. Annmarie Adams gave a talk last week where, using McGill's architecture as a focus, she highlighted how the built environment of medical schools and hospitals can reflect and reveal many of the unspoken priorities of medicine and medical education.
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Susan Potter WILL live forever
Dec 13, 2018
A fascinating article from the National Geographic that looks behind the scenes at the Visible Human Project and how one human in particular, Susan Potter came to volunteer and donate her body to it after her death in 2015.
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Two more Japanese medical schools admit discriminating against women
Dec 12, 2018
Two more universities have now admitted discriminating against female applicants to medical school. Both claim that they had set a lower pass mark for men than for women in order to secure a sufficient number male graduates to enter the medical profession.
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