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

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)

I would like to draw your attention to a literature company who are putting on a production called “Dementia Diaries”. They have funding from the Wellcome Trust and would like to arrange a number of performances for medical students around UK medical schools

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Dementia diaries: performances for medical students (on request)

A fifth-year student at the Peninsula Medical School has successfully applied for funding from the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in order to carry out a study regarding medical students and the information resources they use. Student Sarah Edwards, in collaboration with members of staff from the Peninsula Medical School, scored an impressive 93 per cent for her application, seeing off stiff competition from applicants from around the UK. Medical students and doctors require an understanding of evidence-based medicine and how to implement it..

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Study Investigates Medical Students And The Information Resources They Use

Undergraduate wins bank's essay competition NEXT Ms Admora, a 300 level medical student , emerged winner of the bank's National Essay Competition. Mahmoud Alabi, the bank Group Managing Director, ..

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Undergraduate wins bank’s essay competition – NEXT

Health Care’s Dilemma: Competition Or Collaboration?

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Today’s OpEds: Medical Students Say Don’t Repeal; ‘ObamaCare’ Waivers; The Medical Loss Ratio; Medicare ‘Doc Fix’