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August 19, 2022

Nurses of Color Finding More Financial Aid Avenues Nurses of Color Finding More Financial Aid Avenues

Dr Danielle McCamey While the nursing workforce has grown more diverse, underrepresentation remains a persistent issue and one that has trickle-down implications for providing culturally competent […]
August 12, 2022

Thanks to COVID, Clinical Skills Testing Will Never Be the Same Thanks to COVID, Clinical Skills Testing Will Never Be the Same

Upheaval during the COVID pandemic has forced a rethinking of the steps to medical licensure, most recently clinical skills assessments. As a result, medical students across […]
August 5, 2022

‘A Dream Come True’: Resident Aims to Treat Marginalized Patients ‘A Dream Come True’: Resident Aims to Treat Marginalized Patients

Hector Mora, MD, rarely saw a doctor as a child. Until he started medical school, he didn’t have health insurance. His parents, who brought him and […]
July 25, 2022

Students Exit White Coat Ceremony Over Speaker’s Abortion Stance Students Exit White Coat Ceremony Over Speaker’s Abortion Stance

Dozens of University of Michigan medical students walked out of their white coat ceremony Sunday as a keynote speaker began to talk. A Twitter video of […]
July 5, 2022

What’s in Your Medical Bag? What’s in Your Medical Bag?

In the late 1970s in Madras, India, Ethiopian-born medical student Abraham Verghese observed, and sometimes carried, his uncle’s medical bags. The first was a trunk-like “mobile […]
July 1, 2022

Mom of Nine Takes Baby Steps on Path to Becoming a Neurosurgeon Mom of Nine Takes Baby Steps on Path to Becoming a Neurosurgeon

Sarah Merrill downplays a characterization as an overachiever. She and her husband, who each have several advanced degrees, have moved nine times in the past 2 […]
June 10, 2022

Interprofessional Education Benefits Nursing, Medical Students Interprofessional Education Benefits Nursing, Medical Students

Creating opportunities for nursing students and medical students to collaborate during their training can be tricky. Still, research suggests doing so can yield massive payoffs for […]
June 3, 2022

Resident Unionizing on the Rise Amid a Weakening Pandemic Resident Unionizing on the Rise Amid a Weakening Pandemic

Grant Lin was asleep — just off a night rotation — but waking up every few hours that morning to check his phone for progress.  Meaghan […]
May 3, 2022

There’s a Shortage of Cadavers for Surgeons to Practice There’s a Shortage of Cadavers for Surgeons to Practice

Not enough people are donating their bodies to science, and this is affecting surgeons’ ability to hone their skills by practicing on cadavers, according to professors […]
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