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

Medical education has undergone significant change in the last decade to ensure that new doctors have the skills they need to provide more patient-centered and community-focused health care.

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New Academic Medicine Supplement Highlights Innovations In Medical Education

The Royal College of Physicians is in broad agreement with the recommendations made in this, the first, Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) report on the future of specialty training.

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RCP Statement On The CfWI’s Recommendations For Medical Specialty Training 2011, UK

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

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

The AMA shares the concerns of Australia’s biggest medical schools that the national shortage of medical internships has severe implications for the future medical workforce and its ability to meet the health care needs of a growing and ageing population, with more people suffering chronic and complex conditions. Dr Pesce said the internship shortage has reached crisis point and all Australian governments, including the next Commonwealth Government, must work together to find solutions… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm’s medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising.

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Medical Internship Shortage At Crisis Point – Australian Medical Association

As medical schools across the country welcome droves of incoming students, the Association of American Medical Colleges, or AAMC, is launching new tools to help students in need handle the hefty debt the new school year brings.

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New Online Tool From AAMC Helps Students, Residents Manage Loans

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