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News Articles: medical school

The war in Sudan has taken a toll on the country's medical profession -- interrupting medical education and driving doctors out of the country. Above: 36-year-old doctor and Sudanese refugee Yassin Ishag Dawod is now a refugee in Chad; above, he gets an intravenous drip ready while attending a patient in the Farchana refugee camp.

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  • Global Health

They were going to be doctors. Instead, they had to dodge bombs and flee war

The war in Sudan has taken a toll on the medical profession. Health workers have fled the country, and those seeking to complete their medical education are finding it an increasingly impossible task.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Maria Isabel Barros Guinle
Jerrian Reedy, left, a student at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, assists Dorothy Gray, a student at Northside High School in the Mississippi Delta, as she practices intubation in a simulation lab. Gray, who is interested in pursuing a career in the mental health care field, attended the University of Mississippi School of Medicine’s annual African American Visit Day in April.

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  • Health

Med schools face a new obstacle in the push to train more Black doctors

Schools like the University of Mississippi School of Medicine are trying to recruit more Black students. But they face a swell of Republican opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

July 02, 2024
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By:
  • Lauren Sausser
Ninth-grader Katie Bolton of Screven County simulates bag-valve-mask ventilation on a medical mannequin at Mercer University School of Medicine's Savannah campus, as instructor Joe Slattery guides her through the technique.

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  • Education

‘Georgia needs you’: Amid doctor shortage, Savannah med school workshop aims to inspire rural teens

Mercer University School of Medicine is hoping to boost recruitment of rural Georgians, whose hometowns often lack access to primary care providers.

April 25, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Many medical students do not attend lectures in the first two years, instead opting to watch recorded classes on their own time.

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  • Science

Medical students aren't showing up to class. What does that mean for future docs?

Most first- and second-year medical students don't attend lectures. A student and a professor suggest it's a good time to think a lot about medical education, starting with "flipping the classroom."

June 01, 2023
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By:
  • Alexander P. Philips and
  • Philip Gruppuso
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  • Health Care

South Georgia's only four-year medical school celebrates graduation of inaugural class

The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine graduated its inaugural class of physicians from its campus in South Georgia Thursday afternoon. 

May 25, 2023
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Students at the University of Minnesota celebrate their induction into medical school. The U.S. has disproportionately few Black and Hispanic doctors. Some of the barriers to entering the profession start before even getting into medical school, recent research finds, including financial pressures and racism.

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  • Health

Diversity in medicine can save lives. Here's why there aren't more doctors of color

The U.S. desperately needs more Black and Hispanic doctors, research shows. But financial pressures and discrimination can keep young people from even applying to med school.

April 20, 2023
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  • Maria Godoy

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  • Health

Scant obesity training in medical school leaves docs ill-prepared to help patients

Most doctors get little training in the science of obesity or how to counsel people with the disease. As a result, many patients experience stigma in the exam room.

January 31, 2023
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  • Yuki Noguchi
Carl Allamby recently completed all of his training and was hired as an attending physician at Cleveland Clinic's Hillcrest Hospital. He's 51.

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  • Education

What's it take to go from mechanic to physician at 51? Patience, an Ohio doctor says

Talk about a late bloomer. Carl Allamby, who ran an auto repair shop for more than 20 years, was recently hired as an attending physician at Cleveland Clinic's Hillcrest Hospital at age 51.

October 05, 2022
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  • Vanessa Romo
Dr. Nicole Scott, the residency program director at Indiana's largest teaching hospital, is worried what the near-total ban on abortion in the state means for her hospital's ability to recruit and retain the best doctors.

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  • Health

Their mentor was attacked. Now young OB-GYNs may leave Indiana

Dr. Caitlin Bernard was publicly vilified for providing abortion care to a 10-year-old rape victim. And that's got some medical residents who were open to practicing in Indiana thinking again.

August 10, 2022
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By:
  • Farah Yousry
Second-year family medicine resident Rickey Patel performs a hearing exam on a newborn at Colquitt Regional Medical Center in Moultrie, GA, on June 25, 2022. Doctors in unopposed residency programs, meaning they're the only residents at the hospital, often have more opportunities to work closely with patients and attending physicians.

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  • Health

How rural residency programs for doctors can help solve the health care shortage

Many rural counties in Georgia don’t have even one primary care physician. That’s a problem in a state that ranks near the bottom of the list in multiple health indicators. But as GPB’s Sofi Gratas reports, some residency programs in South and Middle Georgia have been successful in bringing doctors to places that don’t have enough providers. 

 

August 02, 2022
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Mercer cutting ribbon on medical school campus in Columbus

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  • Education

Mercer Medical School’s Columbus campus officially opens

The next generation of healthcare professionals will soon be walking the halls of Mercer University School of Medicine’s new Columbus campus.

December 23, 2021
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  • Associated Press
In this 2009 photo, Stephen Cox (left), Mike Forte (center), and Maria Gallo (right), all medical students then, were busy studying a cadaver in the lab at Rocky Vista University's Parker, Colo., campus. Rocky Vista, a for-profit institution, last month received the green light for an accredited satellite campus in Billings, Mont.

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  • Health

Once Banned, For-Profit Medical Schools Are On The Rise Again In The U.S.

Montana is one of only four states without a medical school, and two groups with different financial models hope to remedy that. One plans a for-profit school, but critics say students may suffer.

June 07, 2021
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  • Victoria Knight
Sam Smith, a University of Colorado Boulder grad who is applying to medical schools, says he has been inspired by the example of health care workers during the pandemic. He plans to specialize in infectious diseases. "I want to be on the front lines of the next one," he says.

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  • National

'Fauci Effect' Drives Record Number Of Medical School Applications

The pandemic put a spotlight on health care workers and inspired many to pursue a career in medicine. The record number of applicants comes as the U.S. faces a projected shortage of physicians.

December 07, 2020
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By:
  • Jon Marcus

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