Communication, collaboration, and simulations might help medical students preserve their empathy for patients and adopt a more holistic approach to healthcare.

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Patient Safety and Medical Quality Symposium Seeks to Improve Medical Education: An Expert Interview With Weston Fisher

Conclusions: Students choosing a career in EM have distinctly different priorities and influences than students entering PC and SS. The profile of students who choose EM is very similar to those choosing traditional CL specialties

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Emergency Medicine Career Choice: A Profile of Factors and Influences from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Graduation…

Honorees at the American Medical Student Association 59th Annual Convention inspire commitment to education, social justice, and civic engagement. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)

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Women Leaders in Medicine Awards Inspire Medical Students to Face Future Challenges: An Expert Interview With Laura Erickson-Schroth, MA

192 students in the UW School of Medicine will join more than 15,000 other medical students around the country in participating in the National Resident Matching Program. (Source: uwnews.org | Health and Medicine)

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Media advisory: UW medical students get ‘matched’ with residency programs

The AP/Houston Chronicle on Tuesday examined how the expansion plans of medical schools at several U.S. universities “are rushing ahead despite the severe economic downturn.” Existing medical schools are “[r]esponding to warnings of a looming doctor shortage” by raising their enrollment rates while new schools are opening or already under development, the AP/Chronicle reports. The number of medical schools approved by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education this year to train physicians is expected to increase by four to 130, while five other schools that have plans to enroll students in the next two years have submitted accreditation applications

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Medical School Growth, Development Increasing Amid Economic Recession

A committee formed to re-examine Harvard Medical School’s conflict-of-interest policies will meet on Thursday, Dean Jeffrey Flier announced recently, the New York Times reports (Wilson, New York Times, 3/3). Harvard last month announced that it would fortify its conflict-of-interest policies. The school has received criticism over its conflict-of-interest policy.

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Harvard Medical School Committee To Meet To Address Conflict of Interest Policies

A computer system enabling medical students to practice diagnosing and managing patients in simulations using real patient data is being developed in an interdepartmental collaborative project between UK-based Leicester Medical School and the Computer Science Department at the University of Leicester.

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Virtual teaching hospital aims to transform medical training

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Former Dean Donald Wilson Wins Prestigious Medical Education Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges

Darrell G. Kirch, MD, President and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC, shares his position on the medical home

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There’s No Place Like the "Medical Home"

Medical school enrollment in 2008 increased by 1.6% over last year, resulting in a record-high 17,759 first-year medical students, with the number of Latino students increasing by 10%, according to a study by the Association of American Medical Colleges, Bloomberg reports. The study found that the total number of applicants reached 42,315 and the nearly 32,000 first-time applicants also was a record high

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U.S. Medical School Enrollment Reaches Record High, Officials Remain Concerned About Meeting Demand