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OnlineMedEd helping medical students prepare for future
Mar 19, 2018
OnlineMedEd is a clinical education platform designed for 3rd and 4th year medical students. The focus is on helping the student through their clinical years rotation-by-rotation, topic-by-topic.
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Siliconrepublic: When it comes to life and death, exam marking just has to be accurate
Mar 15, 2018
A medical student’s ‘true’ score might not reflect their ability to go into healthcare, so Dr Thomas Kropmans of NUI Galway wants to devise an accurate, digital scoring method.
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News-Medical.net: For aspiring doctors with disabilities, many medical schools come up short
Mar 15, 2018
Being a medical student or resident is hard enough, but what if you have a disability that adds to the challenge?
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Kaiser Health News: Oregon Medical Students Face Tough Test: Talking About Dying
Mar 13, 2018
By graduation this spring, this group of medical students must be able to show that, in addition to clinical skills, they know how to admit a medical mistake, deliver a death notice and communicate effectively about other emotionally and ethically fraught issues.
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Barbados becoming a hub for medical education
Mar 08, 2018
Barbados is proving to be an attractive location for international medical universities.
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Connecticut Health Team: When The Diagnosis Is Poverty
Mar 07, 2018
Joanne Goldblum of New Haven is on a mission to get health care clinicians to recognize that poverty may be the underlying cause of their patients’ illnesses and that the best treatment might be as simple as a brown bag of food or a tube of toothpaste.
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Cambridge Network: Expanding medical education
Mar 01, 2018
Cambridge Judge Business School Executive MBA participant David Lenihan seeks to transform medical education to address a severe shortage of healthcare workers, using a once-struggling medical school in Puerto Rico as the launchpad.
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