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Trainee Publication Highlights Success Of USA-China Agricultural Injury Research Training Project

MD Connector — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:00:00 +0000

As a collaboration of the Colorado Injury Control Research Center, the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the School of Public Heath, Tongji Medical College at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the USA-China Agricultural Injury Research Training Project was created in 2004. The project aims to provide training to Chinese scholars, expand collaborative research activities between the injury control research centers and researchers in China and provide training and continue development of human subjects research ethics..

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MAKESHIFT MEMORIAL — Birthday tribute for slain would-be medical student – Investigative Voice

MD Connector — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:19:22 +0000

Palm Beach Post MAKESHIFT MEMORIAL — Birthday tribute for slain would-be medical student Investigative Voice Today would have been the prospective medical student's 24th birthday. A cake with a candle half burnt out sits at the base of a tree trunk in the 2600 …

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$250K grant eases NU student’s juggling act – Chicago Sun-Times

MD Connector — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:00:38 +0000

$250K grant eases NU student's juggling act Chicago Sun-Times Fast forward five years, Waitzman, 24, is now a Northwestern medical student and a Ph.D. candidate in biophysics research.

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Saban blasts unscrupulous agents – Jackson Clarion Ledger

MD Connector — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:14:42 +0000

Saban blasts unscrupulous agents Jackson Clarion Ledger He compared it to a medical student or law student researching graduate programs.

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Local physicians help smokers Connect2Quit – Pratt Tribune

MD Connector — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:14:39 +0000

Pratt Tribune Local physicians help smokers Connect2Quit Pratt Tribune Medical student Nathan Norris (right) and his mentor for the summer, Dr. William Cannata, log on to a Kansas University Connect2Quit research computer that …

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UMMC, Mayo Clinic Sign Agreement To Increase Translational Research And Training

MD Connector — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:00:00 +0000

The University of Mississippi Medical Center will partner with the renowned Mayo Clinic on a series of initiatives intended to convert laboratory discoveries into new therapies and train a new generation of medical scientists.

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FSU Researchers Collaborate On $13.6 Million Grant To Bring Effective Practices To Low-Performing High Schools

MD Connector — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0000

High schools across the nation have long struggled to improve student achievement and reduce dropout rates. While reforms enacted over the past three decades have proven successful in some schools, transferring those reforms to others has been challenging, and many students continue to fall behind. Education policy experts at The Florida State University will collaborate with researchers from Vanderbilt University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Education Development Center on a new $13.6 million grant to help improve high school performance in Florida and Texas..

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FSU Researchers Collaborate On $13.6 Million Grant To Bring Effective Practices To Low-Performing High Schools

Medical School Association Suggests Clinical Conflict-Of-Interest Policies

MD Connector — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0000

The Association of American Medical Colleges has asked academic medical institutions to adopt conflict-of-interest policies for clinical care similar to those they apply to medical research, Modern Healthcare reports.

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Update: Have BIO2010 Goals Been Achieved?

MD Connector — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:26:18 +0000

Leaders in biology education are celebrating the progress made since the publication of BIO2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists. The landmark report, published in 2003 by the National Research Council (NRC), called on institutions of higher education to revamp both the curricula and teaching methods in the life sciences to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

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BCM student selected for research fellowship – BCM News

MD Connector — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:31:48 +0000

BCM student selected for research fellowship BCM News HOUSTON — (June 30, 2010) — Adam Gomez, a fourth-year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine, has been selected as one of 74 medical and veterinary …

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