In the News
AAMC Annual Meeting Highlights Political
Season
At the AAMC's 115th annual meeting in Boston, President
Dr. Jordan J. Cohen urged members to create a culture that embraces
change to ensure that high levels of education, research and patient
care are maintained in academic medical centers.
California Says Yes to Stem Cells, No
to Hospital Funding
Californians voted "yes" to advancing stem cell research
and "no" to a measure touted to improve the state's hospital
emergency services system.
Students Expand Medical Horizons
in Fellowship Program
A group of 20 medical students are receiving training at top-ranked
National Institutes of Health (NIH) centers in developing countries.
They are participating in a new Fogarty International Center and
Ellison Medical Foundation fellowship.
NIH Opens New Clinical Research Hospital
The new Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center opened this month.
It connects with the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, making
it the largest clinical research hospital in the world.
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In Every Issue
A Word from the President:
Meeting the Diversity Challenge
Viewpoint:
Pull the Plug on the Current Healthcare System
In the Print Issue
Accelerating Research
Academic medicine performs about half the number of Institutional
Review Board (IRB) reviews for pharmaceutical and research companies
as it did a decade ago, and a first-of-its-kind collaboration, called
MACRO, hopes to reverse the trend.
Select Group
Students with disabilities comprise roughly 8.8 percent of all
college freshmen, and only 0.2 percent of them graduate from medical
school, highlighting the fact that few physically disabled individuals
pursue careers in medicine.
Enhancing Access
A recent National Institutes of Health proposal calling for
enhanced public access to results of studies funded by the agency
set off alarm bells in the scientific publishing industry.
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