I heard this over the weekend:“The students of today are training for a field that doesn’t currently exist.”Seems hard to believe, right?var page_count = “off”; if (typeof OAS_rdl == “undefined”) {document.write(“”); page_count = “on”;}var MMI_ClickURL = “”; var OAS_searchterms = “”;var OAS_taxonomy =”muid=0″;var MMI_RNS = [...]

The Obama administration is about to unveil a $1 billion plan to beef up the nation’s health care workforce. The goal, in part, is to increase the number of physicians available to serve the nation’s aging population.If one takes a superficial overview, one can find evidence to back up claims that [...]

Current medical news from today, including medical school applications increasing steadily since 2002, 6 of the 25 highest-paid CEOs are in healthcare, and GE Healthcare admits to glitch in EMR software.

Three University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine labs received $12.5 million in research funding for gene research and cancer treatment from the National Institutes of Health, reinforcing the medical school’s position as one of the country’s top grant recipients.Sunil Singhal M.D., director of the Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratory at the Perelman School of Medicine, [...]

The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University has received a five-year, $1 million grant to support fellowships for minority medical students.The grant comes from the KeyBank Foundation, and follows another $1 million gift from the foundation in 2007 for the same program, the Plain Dealer reported. The money will go [...]

The transformation from NEOUCOM to NEOMED is complete.Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED for short) unveiled a new logo and branding around its new, slimmed-down name.On Monday, NEOMED officials pulled back the curtain on new campus signage and social media accounts that featured the new branding for the Rootstown, Ohio-based university. The occasion marked the end [...]

The CEOs of two academic hospitals are upset that Congress may reduce the funding for Graduate Medical Education (GME) paid through Medicare. To fight back, they’ve written a scare story for the Wall Street Journal Op-Ed page (We Can’t Afford to Train Fewer Doctors) that’s full of omissions and misleading statements.To summarize their [...]

As of this writing, 5 air traffic controllers have been found asleep at the switch. By the time this piece is posted, several others may have joined the slumber party. Keep in mind, there’s a lot more snoozing in the towers than we’re aware of. We don’t know the denominator here. Our [...]

Every week, MedCity News highlights the best of its MedCitizens: syndication partners and MedCity News readers who discuss life science current events on MedCityNews.com.Now here’s the best of what YOU had to say:Medical school for free? Not a good idea. “But rather than focus a critical eye on why medical school has [...]

Don’t it always seem to go,That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.They paved paradise,And put up a parking lot.”– from “Big Yellow Taxi” by Joni MitchellAn opinion/policy piece appeared two days ago in the New York Times entitled “Why Medical School Should Be Free.” Hey, why not? If it’s free [...]