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AAMC Reporter: April 2007

In the News

Baylor College of Medicine graduate Sumiko
Armstead reacts after learning she matched
into the internal medicine residency program
at the University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center at Dallas.

A Quiet Match Day? It Depends on Whom You Ask
While the numbers held steady, the medical students who discovered their residency fates March 15 were anything but.

Solutions Sought on Predicted Oncologist Shortage
Experts are looking for answers after a recent study—conducted for the American Society of Clinical Oncology by the AAMC's Center for Workforce Studies—found that demand for oncology services in coming years could outstrip the supply.

UCSF Medical Center Fights Back Against Resistant Bacteria
The fourth installment of the Reporter's "Models in Quality" series examines one effort to manage bacterial resistance to antibiotics.

Photo credit: NIH/Department of Health and Human Services

First R01s Roll in to Grants.gov
National Institutes of Health grant applicants and administrators transitioned recently to an electronic submission format for one of the institutes' largest grant categories.

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In Every Issue

A Word from the President
"Medical Education: The Transformational Challenge"

Viewpoint
"The Invisible Specialty: Occupational and Environmental Medicine"
Tee L. Guidotti, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.O.E.M.,
President, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

The Back Page
Paula Turpen, Ph.D., has loved figure skating since early childhood.

The Print Issue

Biomedical Research Funding in the Gates Era
Chronic Care Initiative Spurs Changes in Teaching and in Treatment
Faculty Practice Plans Learn to Compete in a Changing Environment

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