Future Docs, Part 4: Thinking Specialties, Gaining Real Experiences
We’re checking in on our Future Docs Sarah and Peter, whom we’re following all year to learn more about becoming a doctor in today’s changing health care landscape. They’re half way through their...
View ArticleCan Future Docs Afford to Go Into Primary Care?
Researchers writing in Academic Medicine, the journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, think so. Or rather, after crunching the numbers – medical school debt load to potential income...
View ArticleMore Interest in Primary Care, But are Medical Schools Ready?
Interesting story from the American Medical Association’s news wire today about the growing number of medical students who are opting to pursue careers in family medicine. Students matched with family...
View ArticleFuture Docs: Are we training enough new doctors?
(PROVIDENCE, RI) The nation spends billions of dollars every year training future doctors. But health care experts worry we’re still not training enough doctors to prevent a serious shortage.Next in...
View ArticlePaying for graduate medical education: what experts say
This morning, you might have heard the next in our Future Docs series, which looks at a projected doctor shortage and how graduate medical education funding could staunch or deepen that shortage.
View ArticleAMA invests $10M to transform doctor education
The American Medical Association announced this week a $10 million dollar initiative to help U.S. medical schools improve the education of future doctors. They're looking for proposals now from schools...
View ArticleHonoring your first patient: a cadaver
Medical students and doctors tell me they'll never forget their first cadaver, the body they came to know intimately in their first year anatomy class. I remember Future Docs Sarah Rapoport and Peter...
View ArticleFuture Docs 6: Facing an older, sicker nation
As a nation, we’re getting older, and we’re getting sicker. More of us than ever are over the age of 65. And more of us are suffering from at least one chronic disease. Next in our Future Docs series,...
View ArticleMore med school grads, but fewer residency slots
As if getting into medical school weren't competitive enough. Today's and tomorrow's graduates will find it increasingly harder to nab a residency position, unless Congress acts to lift the cap on...
View ArticleDiversity in Med School: Some Ups, Some Downs
New data is out in a report from the Association of American Medical Colleges on diversity in medical school applications, enrollments, graduations, and faculty. The headlines: future doctors are still...
View ArticleFuture Docs 7: Sarah and Peter Reach a Milestone
During the past school year, Rhode Island Public Radio has been following two Brown University medical students to see how medical training is evolving with changes in health care. We’re checking in...
View ArticleFriday is 'Match Day' for the Nation's Future Doctors
This Friday at 1:00 pm EDT, more than 17,000 U.S. medical school seniors and another 16,000 other applicants (internationals, etc.) find out where they'll train as residents for the next several years...
View ArticleDownload a Future Doc, Listen on the Go
Missed a Future Doc? You can always listen online. Or here's a way to download a story and listen later: just click on the story you're interested in, and look for the download link above it, to the...
View ArticleMed Students: Feeling Your Pain?
The medical students we've been following this year, Sarah Rapoport and Peter Kaminski, are about to wrap up their second year of medical school and, with it, their time in the classroom. They'll spend...
View ArticleBrown and JWU to Partner on Medical Education
Brown University's medical school and Johnson & Wales University's new physician assistant program are going to look for ways to collaborate, the schools announced today. What might that look like?...
View ArticleNew Med School at Quinnipiac Focused on Primary Care
This fall the new medical school at Connecticut's Quinnipiac University welcomes its first class of incoming students. And the school is apparently focused on turning out a particular kind of doctor....
View ArticleFuture Docs 8: Should Med Students Know the ACA?
What do doctors need to learn in school to take the best care of you? Clearly, they need advanced medical and scientific knowledge. But should we expect doctors to know something about how our health...
View ArticleTonight! Future Docs Live at Brown Med School
Where can you meet Future Docs Sarah and Peter and hear from some of Rhode Island's finest minds in health care and medical education? Wonder no more.
View ArticleFuture Docs 9: Teaching Medical Ethics
Some of the toughest decisions any of us will ever make will take place in a doctor’s office. But before those decisions ever come up, doctors must often wrestle with the options themselves. And those...
View ArticleFuture Docs Forum
Future Docs ForumToday, who takes care of you, where, and how your care is paid for is shifting dramatically. Tomorrow’s doctors need to understand how to work in teams, how to balance quality and...
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