Meanwhile, first-year residency positions are increasing at less than 1% annually, a new AAMC survey says. (Source: American Medical News – PROFESSION) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm’s medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising

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Med school enrollment not growing as quickly as projected

As part of its campaign to help Texas physicians survive and thrive in the new health care environment, America’s largest state medical society Thursday educated 4,200 Texas physicians and medical students on the details of the new health reform law. (Source: News_Room)

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TMA Brings Health Reform School to 4,200 Texas Physicians and Medical Students

The University of Kentucky College of Medicine Class of 2013 will host the 11th annual “Feria de la Salud” health fair 2 to 6 p.m., Sunday, May 23, at the E.S. Good Barn on the UK campus

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UK Medical Students Host Hispanic Health Fair

Conclusion: Different educational environments among universities may be partly responsible for the differences in perceived preparedness of medical students for postgraduate clinical training. This study also highlights the poor correlation between self-assessed preparedness for practice and the NMLE. (Source: BioMed Central) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm’s medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising

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Undergraduate educational environment, perceived preparedness for postgraduate clinical training, and pass rate on the National Medical Licensure…

Medical students are having to borrow around £15,000 from their parents to get through their degrees, BMA research suggests. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Independent Nurse News)

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Medical students need £15,000 to get through degree, says BMA

About – News & Issues (blog) Blood, DNA Link Suspect to Yale Student About – News & Issues (blog) Blood and DNA evidence links a lab technician to a slain Yale University medical student , according to details in an arrest warrant issued in the case. …

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The Lancet. Embryonic stem cells, Francis Collins, and the NIH. Lancet 2009; 374: 175—In this Editorial (July 18), the second sentence of the sixth paragraph should have read: “Statements of support for his nomination were quick to arrive from the likes of the Association of American Medical Colleges, the American Association for Cancer Research, the CF Foundation, and the advocacy alliance Research!America, whose Chair called it a ‘perfect’ nomination.” (Source: LANCET) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed – updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

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The Medical Careers Website – www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk which the KSS Postgraduate Deanery manages on behalf of the Department of Health, has been re-launched. The site is free to use and would be of interest to all medical students and has a dedicated section for them to help them to start considering how their medical career could develop beyond medical school.

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Re-launch of Medical Careers website – www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk

Part fairground attraction, part science lesson, a new exhibition of grotesquely lifelike waxworks lifts the curtain on the hidden history of medicine and artThe Wellcome Collection in London is about to open a peep show – and of a kind not seen in Britain for well over a century, since the last public museum of medical waxworks was smashed to pieces by the London Metropolitan police. The Wellcome’s normally chaste white galleries have been transformed for a new show called Exquisite Bodies, which gathers together centuries of anatomical models of human bodies and body parts, created to educate, terrify and titillate.The exhibition’s designers say it will be part university lecture, part artist’s anatomy lesson, part Victorian fairground booth.

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Graphic and ghoulish: The Wellcome’s cadaverous Exquisite Bodies show

Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHI) and St.

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Johns Hopkins Physicians to Present a Continuing Medical Education Course at St. Matthew’s University School of Medicine – 7/16/09