At Vanderbilt Medical School, students take an active role planning activities like fun runs and cooking competitions — as student colleges, modeled on Harry Potter, compete. (Source: NYT Health)

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At Vanderbilt Medical School, students take an active role planning activities like fun runs and cooking competitions — as student colleges, modeled on Harry Potter, compete. (Source: NYT Health)

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Doctor and Patient: Doctor and Patient: A Medical School More Like Hogwarts

Almost half of today’s medical students say they would object to carrying out an abortion on a baby with congenital abnormalities later than 24 weeks in pregnancy. (Source: Telegraph Health)

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Half of medical students object to post-24 weeks abortion

The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) is pleased to announce the names of the recipients of HFSP international postdoctoral fellowships, Career Development Awards and research grants. HFSP awards are made in each category only after rigorous selection in a global competition. HFSP postdoctoral fellowships are given to young scientists within 3 years of the PhD degree who wish to broaden their training in a laboratory in another country

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Announcement Of 2011 Awards From The Human Frontier Science Program

In time doctors hope the synthetic bust, pictured, will become a standard part of a medical students’ learning, something which they are not currently tested on. (Source: the Mail online | Health)

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New fake breast can simulate tumours and sense examination accuracy

MORE THAN 200 years after John A Logan, the US political leader, said that “music is the medicine of the mind”, medical students at NUI Galway are putting that theory to the test. (Source: The Irish Times – Health)

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Students test the medicinal powers of music

NHS reforms raise fears over education and subsequent effects on patient care (Source: BMA daily feed)

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Doctors and medical students seek training assurances

University of Kentucky medical students, faculty, staff and friends of Robert Straus, Ph.D., gathered together for this year’s charity roast, hosted by the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Class of 2012, in February at the Crowne Plaza Hotels Campbell House. Straus, one of the UK College of Medicine’s founding fathers, was this year’s honoree

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Dr. Robert Straus Roasted at Charity Event

New supplementary advice for medical schools The GMC is providing medical schools with additional advice on how to help prepare medical students for clinical practice and the Foundation Programme. These are advisory documents to help medical schools implement the requirements in Tomorrow’s Doctors (2009). Clinical placements for medical students (pdf) sets out what medical students can expect from their placements and Student Assistantships, in which they act as an assistant to a junior doctor during their final year

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Supplementary advice to Tomorrow's Doctors (2009)