A new medical school training undergraduate doctors in Singapore and awarding joint Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) degrees is to be established by 2013, it was confirmed.

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New Singapore Medical School To Be Created By Imperial College London And Nanyang Technological University

Two Amarillo physicians have accepted key Texas Medical Association (TMA) leadership positions. TMA physicians and medical students can be appointed or elected to a position on one of TMA’s 30 boards, councils, and committees. (Source: News_Room)

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Amarillo Physicians Accept TMA Leadership Roles

The AMA will next month host a summit of key medical training stakeholders to discuss and develop solutions to the crisis around the shortage of prevocational and vocational training positions for medical school graduates. AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today that Australia faces the loss of hundreds of locally produced, highly trained medical graduates to other countries or other professions… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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AMA To Host Summit On Medical Intern Training Crisis, Australia

Elsevier, publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced it will provide four key electronic textbook titles for UC Irvine School of Medicine’s new program that gives Apple iPads to its first-year medical students.

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UC Irvine School Of Medicine’s Revolutionary IPad Program To Utilize E-Textbooks From Elsevier

The University of Kentucky College of Medicine celebrated the union of past, present and future through the White Coat Ceremony, a significant and meaningful tradition, with alumni representatives from the past five decades presenting the newest medical students with their coats on Friday, Aug. 6, at UKs Singletary Center for the Arts. (Source: UK College of Medicine News)

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UK College of Medicine Welcomes Class of 2014

After four weeks of work, UQ’s top three interprofessional teams of health students will come together to compete as part of the annual University of Queensland HealthFusion Team Challenge (UQ HFTC). The annual UQ HFTC will take place on Friday, August 27 at 4:30 pm in the auditorium at the UQ School of Pharmacy at Woolloongabba. Designed to foster teamwork and collaboration among the professions, the HFTC brings students from a wide range of disciplines together to produce a management package for a patient with complex needs..

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Solving Healthcare Problems Through Healthy Competition, Australia

What are the challenges of an academic surgical practice?

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The Future of Academic Surgery

The Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) warns that the current bottleneck in the medical education system at the intern-level is resulting in students missing out on further medical training and future medical practice in Australia.

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Australia To Lose Out On New Doctors, Australia

Time article discusses how the trend away from family practice is already producing shortages in rural areas and a continually widening gap between general-practitioner and specialist salaries make the career choice for medical students a fairly easy one: get a specialty. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)

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Primary-Care Doctors: Saying No to $191,000 a Year

The Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) was extremely disappointed this week by the Coalition’s announcement to reintroduce full fee paying domestic places at public universities. President of AMSA, Ross Roberts-Thomson, said that the Coalition’s decision would make higher education less accessible for Australians

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Reintroducing Full Fee Places Will Increase Inequity, Australia