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

Two Abilene physicians and one local resident 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.

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Abilene Residents Accept TMA Leadership Roles

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

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

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

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

The University of North Texas System Board of Regents voted to approve a proposal to develop a new M.D. degree program at the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth (UNTHSC)

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UNT Board Of Regents Approves M.D. Degree Program

Beginning in October, the Graduate School’s new Center for Health Sciences will offer a Medical Laboratory Technician, Associate of Applied Science degree and a certificate program in Phlebotomy. The first of many programs to be offered, both curricula provide a combination of coursework and clinical experience with strong emphasis on employability skills such as problem solving, effective communication, professional conduct, and information and technology literacy…

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Graduate School Introduces Allied Health Academic Programs