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They all think I'm insane': What it's like to start medical residency at 72
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (241+ words) Every time Dawn Zuidgeest-Craft intended to apply to medical school, life got in the way. But after 45 years as a neonatal nurse practitioner, she finally did it, beginning medical school at the age of 69 in 2022. The pivotal moment came after…...
Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings
1+ week, 2+ day ago (165+ words) STAT is a media company focused on finding and telling compelling stories about health, medicine, and scientific discovery. We produce daily news, investigative articles, and narrative projects in addition to multimedia features, podcasts, and opinion pieces. We tell our stories…...
Medical schools diversified. So where are all the diverse doctors?
1+ week, 6+ day ago (564+ words) Vanessa Grubbs is a nephrologist and internist and founder of the nonprofit Black Doc Village. For more than two decades, medical schools have worked hard to diversify, expanding pipeline programs, scholarships, and recruitment strategies to increase representation among students from…...
DOJ accuses Yale, UCLA of discriminatory med school admissions | STAT
4+ week, 2+ day ago (633+ words) The Justice Department sent a letter to Yale School of Medicine on Thursday, alleging it was illegally discriminating against applicants who are not Black or Hispanic, following a similar missive sent last week to the University of California, Los Angeles…...
MIT says research has fallen 10%, and grad student enrollment is down
1+ mon, 15+ hour ago (152+ words) By Aidan Ryan " Boston Globe MIT President Sally Kornbluth said Thursday that the school's research enterprise has shrunk 10 percent from a year ago and warned of a persistent drop in graduate admissions as the university grapples with federal funding challenges…...
More men should go into nursing
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (211+ words) Nursing offers great career opportunities " and gender diversity among health care workers helps patients....
Immigration changes are driving foreign researchers to leave the U. S. " or not come to begin with
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1085+ words) The budding scientist had left India for the U. S. for her Ph. D. , because as she saw it, no other country offered the same opportunities for researchers. Set to finish her doctorate this summer, she also had a postdoctoral fellowship lined up…...
What do medical students think about their education?
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1340+ words) Torie Bosch: Amid the rise of the Make America Healthy Again movement, medical school has become something of a battleground. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others have argued that future doctors need to better understand nutrition and preventive care....
Are international medical graduates taking residency spots from Americans? We did the math
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (401+ words) By Manal Khan, Abishek Bala, and Sarah Mohiuddin The 2026 Main Residency Match was the largest in the program's 74-year history. With 48, 050 active applicants, 41, 482 residency training positions were filled. With the broader rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric, such claims warrant systematic examination....
NIH grants are more competitive and complicated
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (404+ words) NIH payline crash: Why the drop in grant success rates, disappearing NOFOs, and political shifts are crippling academic research careers....