NEJM: Medical School Admissions — A Movable Barrier to Ending Health Care Disparities?
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Medical School Admissions — A Movable Barrier to Ending Health Care Disparities?
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In answer to decreasing percentages of students from racial and ethnic minority groups that are underrepresented in medicine, medical school admissions committees have implemented “holistic” criteria aimed at broadening the scope of attributes considered for admission. However, the...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - April 30, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Quimbara Tags: Pre-Medical - MD Source Type: forums
AANP et al.: "our national organizations strongly oppose the view that emergency care is solely physician-led"
Joint Statement on the Role of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA), American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP), American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) believe in the power of an interprofessional approach to health care that…
www.aanp.org
What a lazy, entitled, selfish organization. These people have zero concern for patient outcomes if they think that they can play doctor with 1/12th the training. (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - April 24, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UreterIHardlyKnowHer Tags: Emergency Medicine Source Type: forums
A guide to NDEB exam preparation as an International student in Canada
Hi,
I am an Indian Dentist, recently graduated (2020), and have currently enrolled as a student in a Health care Admin. course in Canada ( as to clear the NDEB exams and become a dentist in Canada, in the first place I need to enter the country and the only option available to me was to enter as a student). So, with the online classes beginning from May 2021 and face-face classes from September 2021 (hopefully!), when and how do I start preparing for NDEB exams? I am completely clueless and...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - April 19, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: jsenoza Tags: International Dental Source Type: forums
Applying to prelim IM only
Hello, posting the following on behalf of a friend:
A current 3rd DO student, with unique career plans (i.e. working in health care policy) which would only require 1 year of residency, and had some questions:
1. Am I allowed to only apply for prelim IM spots without advanced program?
2. If so, would it be less competitive to get into an prelim IM spot OR to get into normal IM residency?
3. Amongst Prelim IM vs normal IM residency vs Prelim Surgery, which one would be "easier" to get...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - April 11, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: RodofEbullience Tags: General Residency Issues Source Type: forums
2020-2021 Michigan State University bunny training of Osteopathic Medicine (MSUCOM)
Please feel free to tag a pre-medical moderator when the secondary prompt is posted.
Good luck to everyone applying!
Secondary prompts:
1. Why are you interested in osteopathic medicine and why are you applying to the Michigan State University bunny training of Osteopathic Medicine?
2. Other than healthcare access, what are some of the most important health care issues confronting underserved communities? How would you address them?
3. Briefly describe a situation where you were...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - April 1, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: PapaGuava Tags: 2020-2021 Osteopathic School-Specific Discussions Source Type: forums
Any increased risk to patients due to health care workers, including doctors, refusing covid vaccination must be explained to their patients as part of the informed consent process
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Source: BMJ Comments - March 30, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Pathologist Sentenced to 20 yrs in prison for misdiagnoses
The VA needs to be privatized. I say this as someone who has inspected many VA labs over the years.
Former Arkansas VA pathologist sentenced to 20 years in federal prison
A pathologist fired from an Arkansas veterans hospital after officials said he had been impaired while on duty was sentenced to federal prison on Friday. Robert Morris Levy, 54, of Fayettevillewas a pathologist at the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks, overseeing more than 30,000 of his...
katv.com (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - March 4, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: WEBB PINKERTON Tags: Pathology Source Type: forums
When Amazon gives up
Healthcare is too complicated even for Amazon. Happy I won’t be a Bezos factory worker in the near future.
Haven, the Amazon-backed health care company, will shut down next month
The health care venture was formed by Amazon, conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway and banking titan JPMorgan Chase.
www.cnet.com (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - January 6, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: nimbus Tags: Anesthesiology Source Type: forums
Nurses at it again...
Experts say nurses need to be included in Biden-Harris's COVID-19 task force
Health care professionals are asking that a public health nurse be added to the coronavirus task force established by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
www.yahoo.com (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - November 18, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Splenda88 Tags: Medical Students - MD Source Type: forums
Amazon Pharmacy is here
Amazon is now a drug store. It will ship prescriptions to Prime members
Amazon is making its biggest leap into the multi-billion-dollar health care industry with the launch of Amazon Pharmacy, a new digital drugstore.
www.cnn.com
This is the beginning of the end of CVS and Walgreens. There will be many layoffs coming. Pre-pharms, I hope some of you see this before the student mod censors this to the hidden forum. (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - November 18, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: mentos Tags: Pre-Pharmacy Source Type: forums
Dual Applying specialities and different hospitals in the same medical system
What is the consensus on dual applying to different hospitals in the same medical system (for example applying two different hospitals in Kaiser or HCA Health care systems)? I know applying in the same hospital is a bad bad idea. (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - October 17, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: cadingcading Tags: Medical Students - MD Source Type: forums
Health Insurance Premiums
This is why ER docs will always have plenty of work in-perpetuity until the health care system undergoes drastic changes:
I just got notice from Kaiser today that they are going to raise my premiums for 2021. For a family of four and a middle of the road health care package (one of their Silver packages), I'm going to be paying $1796/month premium with $8,200/$16,400 individual / family annual out of pocket maximum.
6 years ago, when I joined Kaiser, I was paying $1035/month for the same...
Health Insurance Premiums (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - October 6, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: thegenius Tags: Emergency Medicine Source Type: forums
Healthcare internships as pass/fail
My university offers healthcare internships with hospitals and other healthcare facilities for a semester, we do get 3 academic credit hours for it, but there is no grading. It is listed as pass/ fail in the transcript and not counted in your GPA calculation. Will that be a problem in the final application and does the pass/fail grading have to be explained in a separate section ? Will it look terrible if we do more than 1 of these ?
Can these be listed as extra curricular health care...
Healthcare internships as pass/fail (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - September 18, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: nkal225 Tags: Pre-Medical - MD Source Type: forums
Patient with Alzheimer's Disease Adamantly Refuses Procedure
86 year old LTC facility patient fell, fracturing her elbow and was transported to our hospital. The fracture is displaced but not compound, and she has a POA with health care surrogacy powers as defined in a living will document on her chart. The living will has not been updated in years and states her place of residence is in another state 1000 miles away, even though she lives in Florida. The POA/HCS agrees to anesthesia for a closed reduction and casting but the patient adamantly...
Patient with Alzheimer's Disease Adamantly Refuses Procedure (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - August 31, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Aether2000 Tags: Anesthesiology Source Type: forums
Re: Covid-19: Mental health consequences of pandemic among health care team
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Source: BMJ Comments - August 4, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
